Data Center Selection Manager

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Requirements:

• 5+ years in planning and managing data center footprints within a fast moving enterprise technology organization or cloud services, software or colocation company
• Ability to multi-task and manage complex projects across multiple teams and geographies within set deadlines
• Ability to navigate, solve problems and answer questions with minimal supervision
• Relationship management experience and excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated experience in commercial negotiation
• Experience with rack, site power and white space planning (data center sales engineering) a plus
• Experience with or understanding of network concepts a plus
• Experience in budget planning, financial analysis, or other analytical role a plus
• Experience with Jira a plus
• Multilingual (e.g. English + Portuguese or Spanish) and/or experience living/working/conducting business in another country a plus
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required

Responsibilities:

• Define regional vendor strategy for data centers
• Own deals end to end involving new and existing data center vendors and sites to support Cloudflare’s infrastructure growth including planning, RFP, commercial negotiation and execution
• Work cross-functionally with legal, operations, capacity planning, network strategy and security teams to understand requirements and project timelines
• Establish and conduct scheduled QBR and other vendor management activities with top category partners
• Represent Cloudflare credibly to external partner C-level senior management and at public conferences/events
• Expert point of contact for internal business customers & external colocation partner vendors as needed
• Contribute information to annual data center budget for effective tracking and benchmarking of infrastructure costs
• Review colocation spend & invoices for management approval
• Other duties as assigned