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CO+I delivers global-scale datacenters and services with a focus on operational excellence, security, compliance, and environmental responsibility. Our mission centers on empowering every person and organization to achieve more while cultivating a workplace rooted in respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.\nRole Overview\nDrives deployment of large-scale campus-based delivery solutions that have the potential to be used globally across entire portfolios. Provides guidance and corrective action when necessary. Analyzes the industry for best practices and internal process flows to recommend changes resulting in cost savings, enhanced customer service, or improved asset management. Makes decisions and influences partners to facilitate and accomplish complex issues impacting global construction projects. Manages any alterations made to the project scope and adjusts the overall plan to accommodate these changes. Reviews cost and key performance indicator metrics, invoices, processes, and policies in order to communicate status to internal and external client partners. Acts as the primary point of contact for project development and delivery. Develops and maintains productive relationships with implementation partners, Operations, Security, Authorities having jurisdiction, and regional corporate leadership. Interprets safety standards and regulatory requirements to direct and enforce compliance and aggressive management of risk. Establishes and communicates risk mitigation goals and develops metrics, dashboards and/or scorecards to drive progress. Helps to manage the relationship with vendor firms leadership team.\nCapabilities & Skills\nAnalytical Skills - The ability to review quantitative or conceptual problems and situations to draw appropriate and valid conclusions from data presented. This includes analyzing data to determine the most significant elements, identify common elements and themes in situations and actions, and recognize cause and effect relationships.\nCompliance Management - The ability to supervise and observe the organization's conformity to various standards, procedures, rules, and regulations.\nProject Quality Assurance - Knowledge of and the ability to apply systematic and continuing processes of making sure that the project is meeting specified requirements.\nQuality Assurance - Knowledge of and the ability to follow systematic and continuing processes of checking to see whether a product, service, or process is meeting specified requirements. This includes knowledge of quality measurements and defined standards.\nRegulatory Compliance - Knowledge of the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to local and/or international governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.\nRisk Analysis - Knowledge of Risk Management and Analysis, the process of measuring, or assessing risk and then developing strategies to manage the risk. This may include the ability to identify or develop strategies to transfer the risk to another party, avoid the risk, reduce the negative effect of the risk, and accept some or all of the consequences of a particular risk.\nConstruction Planning and Logistics\nConstruction - Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction, repair, and engineering of buildings, houses, or other structures such as highways, roads, and bridges.\nConstruction Consulting - The ability to provide management, risk-based advisory, dispute resolution and strategic communications services across all construction and engineering.\nConstruction Management - Knowledge of specialized, project management techniques to oversee the planning, design, and construction of a project, from its beginning to its end.\nConstruction Planning - The ability to plan how the team will manage and execute a construction project.\nConstruction Processes - Knowledge of the design process (creating the description of a new facility, usually represented by detailed plans and specifications) and the construction planning process (identifying activities and resources required to make the design a physical reality).\nScope Management - The ability to manage scope over the course of a project, including determining which changes are essential, estimating their impact on the project, ensuring that changes do not expand scope beyond acceptable levels, and keeping a change record to track progress.\nFinancial Responsibility\nBudgeting - Knowledge of and the ability to develop and utilize budgeting guidelines, practices, and techniques, including forecasting. This may include the knowledge of the department's procedures and reporting systems to establish financial budget information at an appropriate organizational level.\nConstruction Budgets - The ability to manage allotted funds for a specific building or remodeling project. The ability to anticipate all costs and expenses of the building process tracked through a form, tool, or spreadsheet.\nConstruction Risk - The ability to identify and manage any exposure to possible loss.\nCost Benefit - The ability to apply a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives (for example in transactions, activities, functional business requirements or projects investments) to determine options that provide the best approach to achieve benefits while preserving savings.\nFinancial Analysis - Knowledge of and the ability to use basic financial analysis (e.g., return on investment, value chain analysis) related to marketing effectiveness, resource allocations, and new business opportunities.\nProject Cost - Knowledge of the process of identifying project resources, estimating costs, developing the budget, and managing the finances for a project.\nManaging Vendor and Stakeholder Relationships\nConflict Resolution\nThe ability to manage conflict, disharmony, and strife among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.\nIncident Handling - The ability to lead and direct others in the process of resolving escalated problems through communication.\nInfluence Others - The ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence.\nNegotiation - The ability to achieve mutually satisfying agreements in negotiations with others by listening to their objectives, acting as the company's representative to effectively communicate the company's objective, and seeking common ground and collaborative solutions.\nTeam Facilitation - The ability to lead and orchestrate cross-functional teams to complete objectives. This includes the skills of communicating and collaborating with others, leveraging resources and tools, and coordinating processes.\nVendor Management - Knowledge of the process through which products and services are purchased for use by the corporation and the ability to identify, select, and manage vendors and suppliers who provide products and services to the company. This includes knowledge of the development of RFI's and RFP's and the ability to incorporate necessary technical requirements into contracts.\nProject Management and Judgement\nChange Management - The ability to define and implement procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. This may include adapting to change, controlling change, and/or affecting change.\nDecision Making - The ability to make decisions in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. This includes the ability to define, diagnose, and determine an appropriate resolution, recommendation, or decision while considering alternatives and factors (e.g., resources, costs, tradeoffs).\nIncident Management - The ability to identify, record, classify and apply a structured response process to manage incidents until the affected service is restored. Includes knowledge of the progression of an incident through occurrence of the incident, detection of the incident, diagnosis of the cause of failure, repair of the problem, recovery of the problem back to the live infrastructure and restoration of the service.\nMultitasking - The ability to process and attend to multiple types of information and/or perform multiple tasks simultaneously.\nProblem Solving - The ability to identify problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.\nProject Management - Knowledge of and the ability to carry out the process of planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a well-defined objective. This includes the ability to manage and provide project deliverables, optimize the contribution of the people involved, and assess the impact of project decisions on quality, productivity, schedules, cost, performance, etc.\nProject Planning - The ability to manage a project schedule, defining and sequencing activities, estimating activity durations, and developing and controlling the schedule.\nVendor Selection and Evaluation - The ability to evaluate and select vendors who meet specifications and requirements. This includes knowledge of the development of RFI's and RFP's and the ability to incorporate necessary technical requirements into contracts.\nOther:\nCreativity - The ability to apply ingenuity, inventiveness, and imagination to the inclusive design and construction of a product, service, program, or initiative.\nOral Communication - The ability to make a verbal message understood and to receive/understand messages during in-person or remote (e.g., telephone) interactions.\nPresentation Skills - The ability to prepare effective presentations in content and function, and to speak competently to the level of the audience.\nResponsibilities\nBudget and Controls - Develops and reports on scope, schedule, and budget of project. Implements project controls in work activities (e.g., project expenditure requests (PERs), Professional Service Requests (PSRs), change orders, and pay applications). Reduces cycle time, improves quality, and identifies and implements ways to lower cost.\nChange Management - Analyzes the industry for best practices and internal process flows to recommend changes resulting in cost savings, enhanced customer service, or improved asset management.\nCoordination - Acts as the primary point of contact for project development and delivery. Shapes and implements regional construction execution plans. Initializes and identifies opportunities to discuss and integrate lessons learned, advocating for safe and secure security-first mindset during project planning. Participates in and may drive Microsoft partner engagement, communications plans, and community events.\nDrives Results - Makes decisions and influences partners to facilitate and accomplish complex issues impacting global construction projects (e.g., establishing and executing upon team goals, following business processes, engaging vendor relationships, and fostering cross-group collaboration efforts with the agreed-upon project strategy, milestone delivery, and core values and priorities (Safety, Security, Quality, Schedule, Cost)).\nFinancial Acumen - Creates, applies, and shares best practices to identify and drive cost-effective solutions for the strategic and tactical delivery of a construction project. Applies influence, strategy, and decision-making to drive solutions, schedules, and manage change with clients, sponsors, vendors, and operational units including lower-level staff and internal partners.\nGoal Alignment - Develops and maintains productive relationships with implementation partners, Operations, Security, Authorities having jurisdiction, and regional corporate leadership. 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