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We do this by continuously redefining and delivering the digital infrastructure that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.\nHaving opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…\nCome join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.\nA Snapshot\nAs a Senior Director in the Data Strategy & Market Intelligence team, you will provide leadership & guidance for the data strategy manager and data analysts responsible for building and maintaining Air Trunk's competitive intelligence datasets across APAC and the Middle East. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of competitor, market, and site data - from collection, validation, and synthesis into decision-ready outputs for our Air Trunk Executive Team stakeholders.\nThe Market Intelligence team operates strategically across three pillars:\nData Governance & GIS: “Is our data accurate and reliable?” (The Foundation)\nMarket Intelligence & Strategy: “Where is the demand going next?” (The Opportunity) ← Your Primary Focus\nPolicy & Infrastructure: “What are the bottlenecks to building there?” (The Risk)\nKey Objectives \nMaintain an established, granular, and nuanced database of various market data points, including but not limited to competitor builds, land timelines, power procurement processes. The output from this database can be customized to business needs, team or purpose dependent.\nAnticipate Competitor Expansion & Capacity Deployment. Provide early visibility into competitor build pipelines, land acquisition activity, and capacity expansion strategies to proactively manage competitive pressure as an enabler for our continued metro level growth. \nBenchmark Air Trunk’s Competitive Positioning Across Markets. Proactive analysis of infrastructure scale, density, speed-to-market, and geographic reach to inform strategic prioritization and investment decisions. Consider Air Trunk’s inventory, along with the regional differences in barriers-to-entry, infrastructural governance, and risk appetite.\nUnderstand Competitor Technology & Infrastructure Roadmaps. Track adoption of advanced cooling, AI infrastructure, and energy architecture to guide our internal technology strategy.\nEvaluate Regulatory & Sustainability Advantages of Competitors. Identify regulatory alignment and/or any ESG-driven advantages to improve our compliance readiness and market credibility. Track Data Centre energy movements, i.e. JVs between developers, Hyperscale customers and solar farms/renewable energy providers.\nStrengthen Hyperscale & Cloud Go-To-Market Alignment. Leverage insight into Hyperscale deployment dynamics to refine our commercial strategy and capacity planning.\nAccelerate Tactical Decision-Making & Reduce Execution Risk. Use real-time competitor intelligence to accelerate our internal decision cycles and reduce risk in land, power, and permitting decisions.\nIdentify Strategic Differentiation & White Space Opportunities. Reveal under-served markets, sustainability-led niches, and technology gaps to drive long-term competitive advantage. \nYour Day to Day\nModel, Coach, Care: Provide leadership & guidance for our Data Strategy Team.\nCompetitive Intelligence: Own Air Trunk’s APAC & Middle East competitor tracker as the single source of truth. Lead the team to collate and structure data on competitor footprints, expansion patterns, capacity utilisation, and market positioning.\n Data Collation & Quality: Assess data gaps, consolidate structured and unstructured sources (broker reports, news, government filings, internal notes), in order to meet Air Trunk’s Source of Truth standards.\nMarket & Site Data Synthesis: Translate complex qualitative and quantitative datasets into structured formats, dashboards, and visual summaries that provide the Air Trunk Exec team with a clear view of market trends, customer movement, and emerging opportunities.\n AI-Driven Data Solutions: Actively explore and implement AI-powered workflows (Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, etc.) to automate data ingestion, streamline data validation, and optimise retrieval of proprietary information.\nProcess Automation: Automate repetitive data tasks, freeing you and your team to focus on strategic analysis, which will in turn enable effective decision-making.\nCross-Functional Enablement: Work with commercial, energy, land acquisition, development, and government affairs teams to ensure data quality standards are met and outputs are relevant for our Air Trunk business needs.\n Risk & Environmental Data: Analyse environmental risk data (seismic activity, water scarcity, climate factors) to support market viability assessments.\nRequirements\nDegree or Diploma in Geography, Data Analysis, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Real Estate or relevant field.\n5-10 years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, consulting and data centre infrastructure delivery across the APAC & Middle East regions.\nData Management Obsession: Proven ability in data validation, and analysis. You understand data quality is non-negotiable for strategic decision-making.\nAI & Productivity Tools: High comfort level with AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, etc.) and a proactive mindset toward using AI to improve data efficiency.\nExcel & Visualisation: Proficiency in Excel for data manipulation and Power BI (or similar) for creating dashboards that tell a clear story.\nCommunication: Excellent presentation skills to communicate data findings to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. Ability to translate messy data into clear narratives.\nPreferred Skillsets\nGeospatial expertise: Working knowledge of ArcGIS Pro or similar GIS platforms; comfort with shapefiles, KMZs, and spatial data analysis.\nExperience with SQL databases or data warehousing.\nBackground in Data Centre market research, competitive intelligence, consulting and/or business development.\nExperience with Tableau, Power BI, or similar advanced analytics tools.\nThe AirTrunk Culture \nWorking at AirTrunk is a once in a lifetime opportunity to fast-track your career and amplify your impact. Whilst you’re helping scale our region’s digital future, we’ll help you Grow@Hyperscale and unleash your full potential.\nThe pace in which we operate means you’ll feel an electric atmosphere at AirTrunk. We are a team of challengers and collaborative problem solvers who break new ground every day. We do this by living our values, going above and beyond, and being dynamic, transparent, and responsive.\nEvery AirTrunker brings their own unique background and diverse perspective to find solutions to problems that matter. We make sure you have everything you need to make your mark and thrive in a flexible and safe working environment, where everyone feels welcome. Our benefits empower AirTrunkers to stay positively charged.\nNow’s your chance to Grow@Hyperscale.\n**To all recruitment agencies: AirTrunk does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, AirTrunk employees or any other organisation location. 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