Senior Vice President, Utilities and Energy - Europe

Who You Are: As Senior Vice President, Energy & Utility, you lead the Energy Strategy and Utility Delivery organization across Europe to support QTS’s long‑term growth and expansion strategy. You define and execute the end‑to‑end utility infrastructure strategy—including generation, transmission, and energy procurement—while establishing and managing related budgets and financial targets. You oversee teams responsible for utility distribution, transmission, bridging power, onsite generation, and substation development across all QTS projects. In this role, you build and strengthen strategic partnerships with utility providers to create mutually beneficial solutions that accelerate data center development. Serving as the executive representative to utilities, partners, and investors, you influence critical decisions across a broad stakeholder group. You collaborate cross‑functionally with energy leaders, sales, engineering, finance, development, and operations teams to align energy strategy with customer demand and market dynamics—redefining approaches as the energy landscape evolves. This position is eligible to be based in UK, Spain, Italy, Germany or Ireland.

What You Will Do:

• Single threaded Executive leader for driving electric generation, transmission & substation project set up and execution across Europe.
• Owns European long‑term utility infrastructure strategy (generation, transmission, procurement).
• Accountable for >EUR500M+ portfolio and 20+ concurrent major projects.
• Defines capital allocation and prioritization model.
• Directs a team that leads all aspects of high‑voltage projects, including scope, schedule, & budget.
• Manages the effort to negotiate contracts with substation EPCs.
• Manages and negotiates power contracts with utility partners.
• Oversees, tracks, and reports on power project status for all European sites.
• Directs the development of utility portfolio‑level budget and financial reporting to QTS leadership.
• Establishes and frames the development of project and equipment forecasts to aid procurement & vendor partners while improving the company position through strategic insights.
• Drives continuous improvement in the project execution organization.
• Provides guidance, mentorship, and support to project managers, team members, and leadership on project concepts, best practices, and procedures to ensure all activities are linked to QTS’s core values, mission, and strategy.
• Influences cross‑organizational peers in Pre‑Development, Utility Engagement, Energy, Development, Legal, and Sales to deliver power capacity in line with customer demand.

What You Will Need to Be Successful:

• Fifteen or more years of experience in the utilities and energy sector, along with construction management expertise.
• Fifteen or more years of people leader experience.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with C‑level executives and collaborating effectively across all levels of the organization.
• Able to travel up to 50% of the time or as needed to support relationship‑building and delivery.

Nice to Have:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, or comparable experience.
• Twenty or more years of experience delivering utility & construction projects.
• Twenty or more years of people leader experience.
• Demonstrated experience delivering and managing large‑scale (>300MW), multi‑country portfolios.
• Sets market position with EPCs and OEM ecosystem across countries.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate strategic deals valued at $100 million.
• Experience managing an extensive portfolio of work across more than one country.

Other Key Skills:

• Shapes enterprise strategy and investment prioritization.
• Influences executive‑level internal and external executives, including public‑sector stakeholders.
• Drives global alignment across business units.
• Translates ambiguity into scalable operating models.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by QTS in its sole discretion. We provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law. Please contact us to request an accommodation on TalentAcquisition@QTSDataCenters.com.