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Data Center Operations Director, Area General Manager

Salary
Competitive
Employment
Full Time
Real Estate Field
Location
Charleston
 SC
Postal Code
29401
Country
United States

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Description


PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Area General Manager (AGM) is accountable for the leadership, management, and development across all aspects of a Data Centre portfolio of accounts. This includes service delivery, QHSE, statutory compliance, people and talent management, operations management, and the continual development of the customer base.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver outstanding client outcomes on accounts.
  • Full responsibility for Profit & Loss including development of contract financial plans for revenue and profit delivery, reduction of WIP, debt, cost reduction and contract growth, and ensure that these are met and exceeded.
  • Provide leadership; and ensure the planned development of a defined portfolio of contracts to ensure that contractual commitments are met and exceeded.
  • Ensure that opportunities for the strategic development of the portfolio are exploited, to deliver increased turnover and profitability, ensure additional services and projects are added, and contracts are re-won on re-tender.
  • Ensure business policies and processes are effectively communicated and implemented within the contract.
  • Ensure the provision of healthy and safe working conditions and that both clients and Company health and safety policy and process is effectively implemented across both our services and vendor activities; and are regularly reviewed.
  • Ensure a customer focus within all areas of operational activities, and that effective relationships are maintained with key client contacts.
  • Promote and maintaining the CBRE RISE values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence) & culture.
  • Provide a learning environment, and appropriate training and development planning. Ensure basic training needs are delivered, employees are fully competent to undertake their roles, and are able to reach their full future potential.
  • Ensure optimum staffing structures operate across contracts, balancing cost reduction with the delivery of service excellence.
  • Ensure structures support peaks and troughs in workload, disaster recovery, and the sharing of expertise across the portfolio.
  • Ensure contracts are staffed by fully competent teams, taking direct responsibility for the appointment of all management, ensuring post holders are fully competent, and that effective succession planning arrangements are in place.
  • Support the sales process through solutions development, participation in presentations and consultation meetings, hosting visits, and support to mobilisation as required on new contracts.
  • Work with other Operational managers to ensure the collaborative development of the business, effective teamworking, and support to colleagues.
  • Ensure appropriate contract review, audit, and control systems to ensure statutory, policy and contractual commitments are met.
  • Provide leadership and guidance, advice, coaching and direct support, where required to deliver best practice selection, training, assessment, employee engagement and recognition/reward.

Support effective business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management and team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad-hoc reporting and other publications, as appropriate.

Data Centre Solutions is a rapidly growing business area for CBRE with excellent scope for career progression and professional development.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE

High School diploma or GED (General Education Degree) required. Bachelor's degree preferred. Min of 4 years Engineering and/or Maintenance Management related experience/training.

CERTIFICATES and/or LICENSES

Real Estate license preferred.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong organizational and analytical skills. Ability to provide efficient, timely, reliable and courteous service to customers. Ability to effectively present information. Ability to respond effectively to sensitive issues.

FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE

Requires advanced knowledge of financial terms and principles. Ability to calculate intermediate figures such as percentages, discounts, and commissions. Conducts advanced financial analysis.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret complex documents. Ability to solve problems involving several options in situations. Requires advanced analytical and quantitative skills.

OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES

SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY

Decisions made with thorough understanding of procedures, company policies, and business practices to achieve general results and deadlines. Responsible for setting work unit and/or project deadlines. Errors in judgment may cause short-term impact to department.

CBRE is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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CBRE is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

NOTE: An additional requirement for this role is the ability to comply with COVID-19 health and safety protocols, including COVID-19 vaccination proof and/or rigorous testing.

CBRE GWS

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a meaningful contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry's most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.

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