Senior Commercial Manager

Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?

AirTrunk is a technology company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering hyperscale data centres that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.

Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…

Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.

Your Impact

As Senior Commercial Manager based in our HQ in Sydney, you will report to the Associate Commercial Director and work closely with teams and leadership across APJ, making your mark in a number of ways:

• You will lead commercial strategy across large-scale, high-profile hyperscale data centre developments

• You will influence key commercial, contractual, and risk decisions across a rapidly growing regional platform

• You will shape and elevate commercial frameworks, governance, and best practice at scale

What you’ll do

• Provide expert leadership, guidance and advice to support the delivery teams in all aspects of commercial and contract issues across the entire lifecycle of our data centre developments

• Lead commercial strategy and performance across multiple projects

• Negotiate and manage complex contracts, both domestically and internationally, including supplier relationships and commercial processes

• Lead cost management, forecasting, and cashflow projections across a regional portfolio

• Manage commercial portfolio risk and resolve commercial claims and disputes in a creative manner, balancing both parties’ objectives and the long-term implications of changes or solutions

• Drive governance, reporting and continuous improvement initiatives aimed at increasing time and costs efficiencies of the delivery of our data centres

• Partner with a wide range of stakeholders including Development, Finance & Treasury, Legal, and other AirTrunk teams to optimise delivery outcomes across our data centre developments

• Travel to data centre sites both domestic and internationally for project initiation, project reviews and audits, constructability reviews, commissioning, project close out, and the like as required.

What you’ll bring

• 12+ years’ experience in commercial roles within data centre construction, engineering, or infrastructure

• Proven delivery of complex, high-value projects across full lifecycle

• Degree in Law, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or similar

• Strong expertise in contract negotiation, cost management, and risk

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills

• Commercially astute, proactive, and outcome-driven

The AirTrunk Culture

Working at AirTrunk is a once in a lifetime opportunity to fast-track your career and amplify your impact. Whilst you’re helping scale our region’s digital future, we’ll help you Grow@Hyperscale and unleash your full potential.

The pace in which we operate means you’ll feel an electric atmosphere at AirTrunk. We are a team of challengers and collaborative problem solvers who break new ground every day. We do this by living our values, going above and beyond, and being dynamic, transparent, and responsive.

Every AirTrunker brings their own unique background and diverse perspective to find solutions to problems that matter. We make sure you have everything you need to make your mark and thrive in a flexible and safe working environment, where everyone feels welcome. Our benefits empower AirTrunkers to stay positively charged.

Now’s your chance to Grow@Hyperscale.

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