Data Center Market Lead

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over22,000 peoplein more than 62 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure,energyand natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects andprogrammesas we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

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We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estateservicesand investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premierprogramme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

The Market Lead is the client’s single point of contact in their market, named and fixed for the term of the engagement. Everything delivered in-country is theirs: the health of the deal pipeline, the direction and performance of the in-market pre-lease team, the quality of local intelligence, and the honesty of the risk picture the client sees. This role demands standing in the local market — with developers, utilities and authorities — and the confidence to say hard things early.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the client’s first point of contact and escalation for all in-market matters
• Direct and prioritise the in-market pre-lease team against live deal flow
• Manage developer and counterparty relationships across all sites in the market, including intake of due diligence deliverables and documents
• Produce monthly market intelligence covering power, land, supply chain, pricing, lead times and regulatory movement
• Identify and report key risks to the client relating to potential deals, developers and sites
• Provide evidence-based input to the quarterly resourcing review on forward deal flow and required capacity
• Advise the client on local market practice, negotiation norms and engagement with utilities and authorities
• Ensure clean coordination with existing in-market instructions during their run-off, with no duplication of effort

Qualifications

• Established standing in the market’s data centre or major projects sector, with a live network of developers, utilities and authorities
• A record of leading in-country teams and holding senior client relationships
• Business fluency in the local language and negotiating culture (Japanese essential for those markets)
• Deep familiarity with local regulatory, planning and grid connection realities
• The judgement to say hard things early about deals, counterparties and risk
• Comfort operating as the face of a global firm in their market

Additional Information

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