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Commercial Manager Data Centres

Always wanted to challenge the obvious and make great things happen? At Goodman we create space for your greatness.

Company Overview: 

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

Profile description 

The Commercial Manager will act as the commercial lead across a portfolio of data centre development projects, ensuring consistent, value-driven, and risk-managed commercial practices are embedded from business case through to completion. 

Operating at programme level, the role will define and uphold commercial standards, oversee cost governance across multiple projects, and provide strategic guidance to project teams whilst auditing compliance of project teams and external partners. The successful candidate will act as a champion of best practice, fostering a value management culture and supporting Goodman's commercial maturity across regions. 

Key responsibilities` 

Standards and governance: 

  • Develop, implement, and maintain programme-wide commercial standards, templates, and procedures, ensuring consistency across all data centre projects. 
  • Establish a robust budget and cost reporting structure, enabling transparent cost tracking and early identification of variances. 
  • Define the scope and deliverables for external cost managers at each project stage (feasibility, design, procurement, construction, and close-out). 
  • Lead the creation and continuous improvement of cost management processes, including change control, cash flow forecasting, and contingency management. 

    • Value management: 

  • Develop and maintain a benchmark cost and performance database to support early-stage business case validation and investment decisions. 
  • Drive a value management mindset throughout all project stages, ensuring design and procurement decisions align with total cost of ownership and operational efficiency objectives. 
  • Facilitate regular value and risk reviews across the design and delivery phases. 
  • Promote design-to-budget principles and commercially informed decision-making across multi-disciplinary teams. 

    • Portfolio-Level Reporting and Insights: 

  • Consolidate and analyse project-level commercial data to produce portfolio-level cost, performance, and risk insights. 
  • Prepare executive-level reports highlighting key trends, variances, and opportunities for cost optimisation. 
  • Work closely with finance and delivery teams to ensure commercial transparency and alignment with business objectives. 

    • Commercial and Contractual Support: 

  • Provide expert commercial support to tender and procurement processes, including ITT preparation, bid evaluation, and negotiation strategies. 
  • Act as an ambassador of the GMP (Guaranteed Maximum Price) approach, educating internal stakeholders and ensuring consistent application across the programme. 
  • Support and audit GC contract negotiations, ensuring agreements reflect balanced risk allocation, performance incentives, and clear deliverables. 

    • Programme-Level Procurement Strategy:  

  • Define and implement the programme procurement strategy for General Contractors and key suppliers, balancing efficiency, scalability, and local market conditions. 
  • Identify opportunities for framework agreements or strategic partnerships to secure capacity, consistency, and cost advantages. 
  • Collaborate with legal, procurement, and project delivery teams to ensure best-practice procurement aligned with corporate governance and ESG objectives. 

    • Qualifications: 

  • Degree qualified in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, or a related discipline. 
  • Minimum 10+ years' experience in commercial management of large-scale construction projects, ideally including data centres, industrial, or complex technical facilities. 
  • Proven experience in client-side roles at programme or portfolio level. 
  • Strong understanding of FIDIC contract forms, with direct experience negotiating and managing GMP contracts. 
  • Demonstrable experience in cost planning, benchmarking, value management, and procurement strategy. 
  • Excellent analytical, stakeholder management, and presentation skills. 
  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive adoption of consistent commercial practices across regions. 

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    Let's introduce ourselves a little more:

    Goodman owns, develops, and manages modern industrial real estate including logistics facilities, data centres and business parks in strategic locations around the world. In total, we have a team of around 1.000, located across 5 continents. In Continental Europe we are active in 7 countries, including offices in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, München and Paris.

    Contrary to traditional organisations where leadership is based on hierarchy, ours is based on individual ownership and accountability. Most importantly, we want to make room for growth for everyone to remain agile in responding to the constantly changing world, to increase effectiveness, act with respect and contribute to greatness.

    How do we look at the world of tomorrow?

    At Goodman we believe we all have a role to play in safeguarding the future for next generations. Therefore, sustainability is the driving force behind everything we do. Not only do we foster a sustainable and inclusive working environment for all our employees but also, throughout all our projects, we are continuously challenging ourselves to make sustainability a reality. All of this is part of Goodman's DNA and at the centre of everything we do. At Goodman, we believe it's not enough to talk the talk — we also need to walk the walk

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