Data Centre Business Development Director

Data Centre Business Development Director

Location: London / Hybrid

Travel: International travel as required

Start: ASAP

A rapidly growing international development and investment platform is building a digital infrastructure business focused on the intersection of energy and data centres .

The business is looking for an experienced Data Centre Business Development Director to bring genuine operator-side insight, industry relationships and commercial expertise into the team.

The Role

You will work closely with development, investment and technical teams to help shape and commercialise an international pipeline of data centre opportunities.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Building relationships with data centre operators, colocation providers, hyperscalers and cloud providers
• Bringing operator and customer requirements into the development of new sites
• Identifying and originating strategic partnerships
• Supporting the commercialisation of projects across power, land, connectivity, technical requirements and development timelines
• Supporting negotiations with prospective operators, partners and customers
• Providing market intelligence on operator expansion plans, capacity requirements and priority markets

The Candidate

You should have:

• 5+ years’ experience within data centres or digital infrastructure
• Experience working for a data centre operator, colocation provider, hyperscaler, cloud provider or closely related business
• Strong understanding of how data centre projects are developed and commercialised
• Existing relationships across the data centre operator and/or customer market
• Strong commercial and relationship-building skills
• An entrepreneurial, hands-on approach
• An international mindset and willingness to travel

This is a senior opportunity within a growing platform with significant autonomy and direct exposure to senior leadership.

Package: Competitive salary + 20% bonus + long-term share incentive plan.