[Hiring] Vice President, Global Head of Design Execution @NTT Global Data Centers

Role Description

Join NTT Global Data Centers and be part of a team that drives innovation and sustainability in the digital world. Experience a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive workplace where your ideas are valued, and your growth is supported.

Your role at a glance

• Sets direction for policies, standards, and guidelines on how the organisation conducts strategy development and planning.
• Drives the execution of strategy, working with functional heads to maximize achievement of overall strategic objectives.
• Advises on and establishes operational processes and related improvements that constantly drive efficiencies, including opportunities for automation.
• Oversees the development, communication, implementation and reviews of the strategic planning and management process to ensure cross-functional alignment.
• Ensures the management and integration of functions, systems, processes that drive financial and operational efficiencies, including facilitating the development of aligned and integrated functional or divisional business plans.
• Identifies pursuit opportunities as well as individual senior relationships where investment should be made in order to ensure profitable and sustainable growth.
• Investigates and recommends areas for investment and growth, including innovation opportunities that will contribute to the achievement of strategic objectives.
• Provide high-quality expert advice to the Senior Executives to enable strategic thinking and optimize the strategic planning processes for the organisation.
• Direct the alignment of corporate reporting systems, identification of key performance indicators and high-level targets, communication, and promotional strategies and processes for review and evaluation to facilitate identification of variations from plan and necessary remedial actions.
• Positions the strategic direction and enablement through effective engagement with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Identifies areas where continuous improvement can be applied.
• Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Controls planning, staffing, budgeting, expense priorities.
• Approves changes to method and budgets.
• Provide long-term financial projections (e.g. revenue growth) and develop market/client insights and projections.

Qualifications

• Has wide-ranging organisational knowledge in order to implement and know-how external factors will affect the implementation.
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional/cross-region cooperation.
• Strong influencing skills and build rapport easily, able to influence a range of internal and external, technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong business acumen, expertise, and strategic planning skills.
• A visionary leader who demonstrates the ability to interface and maintain effective working relationships with all departments.
• Ability to collaborate with executives at a strategic and tactical level.
• Sense of ownership and pride in own performance and its impact on company’s success.
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to think conceptually and identify and address future challenges and opportunities, often in an ambiguous environment.
• Self-starter and have an affinity for technology’s ability to drive efficiencies and enhance service delivery.
• Ability to generate a commitment to change across a broad group of stakeholders and deliver against the multi-year plan.
• Proven leadership skills and management capability.
• Excellent client and stakeholder management skills, driving business value through consistent service delivery which exceeds expectations.
• Excellent project and change management skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or related fields.
• Advanced degree (MBA) are preferred.
• Extensive experience planning, developing, and managing departmental expense and capital budgets.
• Extensive experience directly managing people, including hiring, developing, motivating, and directing people as they work.
• Familiar with various platforms of IT.
• Extensive working experience in a strategic leadership and management position, preferably working as a senior strategy manager in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.
• Extensive experience in strategic planning and analysis, marketing/market research, competitive intelligence, and corporate business development.

Company Description

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.