Data Centre Project Director

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Our organization is a dynamic and innovative real estate company, serving as both a developer and investor with a primary focus on logistics real estate. We are expanding our portfolio to include cutting-edge data centre development projects and are therefore seeking experienced data centre professionals.

Goodman is seeking an experienced Project Director   (based in Paris) to join our expanding Data Centre project team. The ideal candidate will oversee the entire lifecycle of the construction process, ensuring the project is delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. You’ll manage high-level planning, coordination, and leadership of multidisciplinary teams, including contractors, consultants, and internal stakeholders. This role involves mitigating risks, monitoring progress, and making critical decisions to resolve issues that arise during the build. The Project Manager also liaises with clients and ensures alignment with the overarching business objectives, maintaining a focus on operational readiness and sustainability.

More concretely, this means you will get the opportunity:

Strategic Project Leadership: 

• Provide leadership and strategic direction for data center projects.
• Oversee the entire project life cycle, from tendering to commissioning, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.

Client Management: 

• Actively engage in negotiations, driving the technical aspects and coordinating discussions with subject matter experts, leading to lease signatures. 
• Ensure a seamless transition from commercialization to project delivery, maintaining a positive and collaborative relationship with clients throughout the entire project life cycle.
• Regularly communicate project updates, milestones, and key decisions to clients, ensuring transparency and alignment of expectations.

Project Planning and Execution: 

• Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to develop comprehensive project plans, including final design review, tendering, construction, and commissioning processes.
• Manage project budgets, resources, and timelines effectively.

Risk Management: 

• Establish and implement thorough project controls to ensure early identification of potential issues, providing the greatest chance for effective mitigation.
• Develop robust risk mitigation strategies, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to address challenges promptly.
• Maintain a keen focus on risk management during the commissioning phase, ensuring all potential challenges are anticipated and addressed in a timely manner.

Contractual Oversight: 

• Ensure compliance with obligations of both the general contractor and the lease agreements, understanding their implications for project management.
• Strategically manage claims and disputes within FIDIC-based contractual relationships, or similar, collaborating with legal teams to achieve fair and timely resolutions, while maintaining a focus on change order management.
• Effectively oversee change order management, addressing modifications initiated by the end-user and managing responses from general contractors.

Market Experience and Team Building: 

• Demonstrate experience in the French market, having successfully delivered projects as a client or general contractor.
• Assemble and lead a newly hired project team while integrating existing team members into the project structure.

Do you recognize yourself?

• 10 years experience in project management, with a focus in data centre projects;
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale projects on time and within budget;
• Strong leadership, decision making, and team-building skills;
• Experience in the French market with a successful project delivery track record;
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.

How will we reward you?

At Goodman, we know that our people are the driving force behind our success. That’s why we offer a competitive total reward package and a range of benefits, including:

• Competitive fixed compensation
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Eligibility to participate in Goodman’s share scheme (if applicable)
• Electric company car with a European charging card, or car allowance
• Continuous learning and development opportunities
• Flexible working arrangements (one day of working from home per week)
• A collaborative culture supported by team events and social activities
• An ergonomic workplace in our state-of- the-art offices
• Additional country- specific benefits

Not sure if you fit the profile? Let’s find out together!

About Goodman

But first, let us introduce ourselves a little more:  

Goodman Group develops, owns and manages the infrastructure that keeps goods moving and data flowing. We build and operate logistics facilities and data centres in strategic locations across the world. Together with leading institutional investors, we invest in and manage these assets to support long-term growth and the digital economy

Goodman operates in key consumer markets in 15 countries across Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. We are the largest property group listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and invest significantly alongside our capital partners in our investment Partnerships. Our Continental European headquarter is based in Belgium and we are active in 7 European countries, including offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan and Paris. 

Our culture is based on collaboration, ownership and a mindset of seizing the opportunity. We take ownership of our decisions, work together to achieve shared success, an create an environment where everyone is empowered to learn, grow and have impact. 

Building for the future

Building and operating essential infrastructure comes with a real environmental impact. At Goodman, we don't shy away from that. We see it as a responsibility we owe to the generations who'll come after us, and as an opportunity to keep doing better, project after project. In practice, that means taking a long-term view of how what we build holds up over time, and building teams where different perspectives are genuinely valued. Because words only carry us so far, what counts is what actually gets achieved. It's an ongoing effort, made of small decisions as much as big ones, and one where the right people can push what's possible even further.