Project and Program Manager

Project and Program Manager - (New Business/Investments)
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 245+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ quarters of growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have built the largest, most active global ecosystem of 10,000+ companies, including 2,000+ networks and 3,000 cloud and IT service providers in 32 countries spanning six continents.

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in multifaceted directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

**What you’ll be doing**

Hosting and producing notes for weekly working group meetings. These weekly cross-functional meetings are key to coordinating the wide range of teams involved in capital investment. Meetings include team representatives from Corporate Development, Real Estate, Commercial Finance, Global Design & Construction, Legal, Finance and Data Center Operations

Schedules working group calls and ad hoc meetings for projects coming up for approval to prevent delays

Serves as cross-functional escalation point for teams producing day-to-day project business cases. Manages and guides escalations to resolution

Manages the monthly Americas REIC (Real Estate Investment Committee) governance meeting where capital investment decisions are made, including sharing results with all stakeholders at each approval level required by that month’s projects

Supports approval requests that must take place outside of the routine meetings

Supervises all capital investment decisions

Annually - coordinate Americas REIC (Real Estate Investment Committee) meeting schedule for the following year, set up folders in Microsoft Teams to support process

Proactively ties needed capacity with calendar timing of project

Drives dialogue forward patiently challenging assumptions, building out next steps and consensus on action items

**What we’ll expect from you**

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced English

Knowledge advanced in Excel and Power Point

Demonstrates influencing skills to achieve solutions and dealing with challenging stakeholder situations

Negotiation skills and strategy in capital investment in the Americas enabling new Data Centers, builds, growing, new acquisitions and new opportunities of investment

**What will be the difference if you have**

Business Finance and/or Commercial Real Estate background including some knowledge of industry terminology, finance concepts, and commercial real estate

Knowledge in project tracking systems as Anaplan or Smartsheet or ability to learn quickly

**Why Equinix**

The opportunity to be part of the digital transformation in the world in a company that was elected by the employees as the best places to work by Glassdoor and it´s is GPTW for several consecutive years.

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.