Strategic Negotiator, Data Center Site Selection - London, United Kingdom - Google
Description
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Finance, Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience managing projects or supporting the planning and development of agreements.
- Experience discussing or supporting the negotiation of bilateral real estate agreements, managing projects of varying sizes, timelines, and scale.
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time as required.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with any of the following: site selection for industrialscale projects, real estate transaction, real estate evaluation, acquisition, development, construction, discussing or managing utility agreements, energyrelated issues, implementation of clean energy initiatives, financial modeling, large collocation agreements.
- Experience in indirect taxes, economic development policy, financial modeling, infrastructure development, agreement drafting and redlining, and presentation development.
- Knowledge of power transmission and distribution, telecommunications infrastructure, data center technology, industrial electrical and cooling technology, and other related areas.
About the job:
As Google's products and services grow to serve our billions of users, the Strategic Negotiation team works behind the scenes to secure infrastructure for Google's future.
In this role you combine your deep market knowledge with tech industry savvy to find solutions that support Google's growth.
You'll work with specific teams to oversee vendor and partner relationships.Your successful management skills have the potential to impact every part of the business and save Google millions of dollars in operating costs.
You'll ensure that we receive contract compliance on our third-party agreements, while identifying the most cost-effective solutions for our needs.
You'll take lead on special projects, manage vendors and present your recommendations to Google leadership.
As a Data Center Strategic Negotiator, you will work with the team to identify locations and sites of interest for self-developed data centers, establish agreements and build relationships with landowners, economic development officials, power grid and energy companies, telecommunications companies and government officials, data center developers, as well as data center providers.
You will lead discussions for purchase and service agreements with these key stakeholders such as managing a broad range of compliance issues, site/infrastructure development strategy and milestone tracking.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running.From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible.
We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them.
We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.Responsibilities:
- Work with internal and external technical teams to identify, define, and pursue initiatives necessary to meet Google's ongoing data center needs, including agreement of necessary utility connections (e.g., power, water, etc.) at existing and new green or brown field sites.
- Monitor progress against objectives, providing regular status reports and advocating financial metrics to support both site and infrastructure related portfolio decisions.
- Manage the strategy for ongoing growth at existing sites.
- Develop metrics for mapping, tracking, and advocating of a broad range of portfolio management issues regarding site/infrastructure development.
- Foster an open and inclusive workplace for colleagues in daytoday interactions and conversations.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
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