Director Portfolio Management

Your role at a glance

The Director, Portfolio Management (m/f/d), plays a critical leadership role within Global Portfolio Management, responsible for structuring, executing, and actively managing third-party investment in EMEA greenfield data centre assets. The role spans the full development lifecycle, from origination and feasibility through financing, construction, delivery, and stabilisation. The position serves as a strategic partner to investors, senior leadership, and key internal functions including Finance, Legal, Construction, Design, and Power.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Joint Venture, Asset & Investor Management
• Oversee the financial performance of JV and assets, including development entities
• Support equity processes, shareholder funding, and distributions
• Ensure compliance with key agreements, including JV, funding, operator, and third party covenants
• Assess the financial impact of key business decisions related to JVs, customer contracts, suppliers, pricing, and development timing
• Lead, together with relevant teams, asset level financial strategies to ensure sustainable financing, liquidity, and compliance

2. Financial Modelling, Risk Management, Development Finance
• Oversee financial and financing models including base case, downside scenarios, covenant headroom and sensitivity analyses, in cooperation from the Business Model team
• Ensure the team aligns models with development progress, leasing assumptions, capex phasing, and financing structures
• Assess and communicate financial risks, mitigants, and downside scenarios to senior management and investors, challenge development business cases (IRR, NPV, yields, cost curves) for greenfield and expansion projects
• Analyse liquidity requirements, and funding sources across multi year development plans
• Act as partner to internal teams and external investors on strategies, and investment decision making

3. Financing & Capital Structure
• Lead project finance and corporate financing processes for new and existing data center assets, including initial bank financings, refinancings, and amendments
• Lead the commercial and legal negotiation of financing packages, including debt terms, covenants, security structures, and conditions precedent, in coordination with Legal and advisors
• Coordinate and support hedging strategies (interest rate swaps, caps, floors), including interaction with treasury, hedging advisors, and lenders
• Own financing related workstreams with lenders, their advisors, shareholders, and internal stakeholders
• Manage liquidity, debt levels, covenant compliance, reporting obligations, compliance, and lender interactions under SFAs and ancillary agreements

4. Reporting, Governance & Decision Support
• Prepare and present board level and investor reporting, providing clear and pragmatic financial insights to support investment and development decisions
• Support audits, lender reviews, and due diligence processes
• Manage or oversee JV finance functions including budgeting, cash management, planning, accounting coordination, year end closing, and reporting
• Act as a business partner, not only a reporting function, actively challenging assumptions and supporting decision making

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related analytical discipline (Master’s degree or MBA preferred/CFA).
• Multiple years of relevant experience in infrastructure, real estate, private equity, investment banking, or project finance.
• Proven experience working with institutional investors, joint ventures, and complex capital structures.
• Strong track record in financial modelling, valuation, and investment analysis.
• Experience in data centres, energy, infrastructure, or large-scale development projects is
• Advanced Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, modeling).
• Strong PowerPoint skills for executive-ready presentations.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with financial systems (e.g., SAP, Yardi) is a plus.
• Ability to work independently and cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Who we are

As the third largest data center provider, we operate over 150 data centers in more than 20 countries and regions. We understand that every business – large and small – has its own unique needs and goals. We offer local-to-global data center expertise, aligned with our connected platform of AI-ready data centers to create solutions that enable our clients to seamlessly scale their digital businesses, anywhere and anytime.