Senior Data Center Pre-Construction and Capacity Delivery Manager, EMEA in Vauxhall

About Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

As a Senior Data Center Preconstruction & Capacity Delivery Manager at Anthropic, you'll make sure our EMEA deals are ready to execute before we commit to them, and you'll take time out of every program before the lease is signed. Delivery dates and costs on AI infrastructure deals are largely fixed at signature. What is missed before then is hard to recover afterwards, and our leverage over the schedule is at its highest while the deal is still open. About 75% of your time goes to preconstruction and pre-lease management, from first desktop review through Letter of Intent (LOI) to lease execution. You'll test whether each opportunity can be delivered, rigorously accelerate its program, and shape the deal so that what a developer commits to can be held to, verified and delivered. The other 25% goes to delivery. You'll carry that work through mobilization, embed with the partners building leased and partnered capacity, and lead them to deliver on the fastest possible schedule while maintaining a safe construction site and protecting the finished quality of the data center.

Responsibilities:

• Preconstruction and pre-lease management (about 75%):
• Lead engagement with developers, contractors, utilities and transaction teams early enough to shape the outcome of each deal.
• Confirm deal readiness and validate transaction viability from LOI through lease execution.
• Run independent, evidence-based delivery due diligence on each opportunity.
• Interrogate every developer schedule from the native file.
• Accelerate programs during the pre-lease phase.
• Assess contractor and supply-chain capacity and long-lead equipment needs.
• Challenge Total Development Cost and delivery schedules.
• Shape the delivery terms of the LOI, lease and supporting exhibits.
• Provide clear go/no-go recommendations at each decision point up to signature.
• Keep one delivery-readiness record and one risk register across all EMEA opportunities.
• Direct owner's representatives and third-party advisers.
• Develop and refine the preconstruction playbook.
• Prepare and present regular executive reporting on readiness and risk.
• Delivery leadership (about 25%):
• Document the baseline at signature for design, budget, schedule, long-lead position, open risks and conditions.
• Partner with landlords and developers post-deal.
• Be present at project sites to shape culture and approach.
• Represent Anthropic in key technical and operational decisions.
• Drive seamless handoffs to operational state.
• Identify and mitigate risks throughout the delivery lifecycle.

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 8+ years of experience in preconstruction, development, or cost and commercial management on data center or other large mission-critical programs within EMEA.
• Have a track record of testing developer and contractor claims.
• Have shaped delivery terms in development, lease or construction agreements.
• Have a strong understanding of the end-to-end data center development process.
• Are comfortable making decisions without the need to consult across multiple external parties.
• Understand the nuances of data center design and construction across EMEA markets.
• Have built or scaled a team or function.

It's a bonus if you:

• Understand AI/ML infrastructure requirements.
• Have had preconstruction or leadership positions on hyperscale data center projects.
• Prioritize extreme ownership and have the ability to create winning cultures.
• Are familiar with lease negotiations, construction contracts, or real estate development processes.
• Have secured long-lead equipment or manufacturing capacity ahead of a signed deal.
• Have run quantitative schedule risk analysis.
• Speak additional European languages.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. Annual Salary: 1—1 GBP.

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate.

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How we're different: We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts.