Vice President, Sales EMEA

About Vantage Data Centers: Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Position Overview: The VP Sales will be responsible for serving as the lead account owner for one of Vantage’s largest Hyperscale accounts. As the leader of this premier account, the VP of Sales will lead all stages of business acquisition with relationship management and tracking all the way through lease execution. This leader will be responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships across the spectrum at this leading Hyperscale account; ranging from key engineering leaders up to and through the business leaders. As a strong sales leader, the VP of Sales will need to develop and maintain strong internal relationships with VDC partners, including Engineering, New Site Development, Construction, and Operations.

The ideal candidate will have excellent written and verbal communications skills and will have a proven track record of leading hyperscale sales in the data center community or similar fields.

Essential Job Functions:

• Strategy Development: Drive the overall strategy for the target hyperscale account. Drive all leasing results by actively engaging across all levels of both the customer and VDC organizations. Lead all sales pursuits associated with the target hyperscale account.
• Relationship Management: Develop and maintain all customer contact plans. Build and maintain business relationships with customer organizations, including North American leadership, Site selection, Legal, Finance, and Tax departments. Build and maintain technical relationships with customer organizations: Site Selection, Engineering, Construction, Security, Network Engineering. Gain customer acceptance by gaining and demonstrating a firm understanding of their business/operations.
• Sales and Revenue: Accurately forecast annual, quarterly, and monthly revenue streams. Provide quarterly results assessments of productivity. Meet or exceed all defined sales goals and ensure consistent quota attainment.
• Internal Collaboration: Build and maintain relationships with internal Vantage teams, including Engineering, Construction, Legal, and Finance. Directly engage with Solutions Architecture and Engineering to play a lead role in all RFP activities. Actively work with Vantage New Site Development to ensure inventory meets the account’s needs. Communicate with team members to keep up to date with daily issues and activities.
• Management and Mentorship: Actively manage and mentor Account Managers assigned to the target Hyperscale Account. Lead Salesforce management for all active pursuits.
• Lease and Contract Management: Act as a point of contact for lease reviews and negotiations. Manage all aspects of the sales pursuit, including signal creation, RFP management, lease creation/negotiation, and executive reporting. Articulate and conduct in-depth product feature benefit discussions related to Vantage data center offerings. Participate in initial design reviews for new data center builds and customer-specific builds.

Additional Duties: Handle additional duties as assigned by Management.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or Engineering from an accredited university or college, required.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or Engineering discipline from an accredited university or college, preferred.
• 10-15 years of experience in management role required, 15 to 20 years preferred.
• Data Center experience is desired.
• Experience in leading and directing work with direct reports is required.
• Strong ability to drive output of department staff.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively present information to executive management, operations, sales engineering and finance and drive output of department staff.
• Travel required is expected to be up to 50% but may increase over time as the business evolves.

We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations. Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.

Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values. Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Vantage Data Centers does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm agencies. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of Vantage Data Centers.