Senior Manager, Product Performance Benchmarking, Global in London

About Vantage

Vantage 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.

Product Department

The Product team at Vantage defines and stewards our global product platform: the customer outcomes we aim to deliver, the standards and reference approaches that make delivery repeatable, and the closed-loop learning that turns each deployment into an upgrade for the next. We do this in partnership with Engineering, Delivery, Operations, Procurement, Sustainability, Sales, Site Selection, and Business Development, aligning priorities and trade-offs while preserving clear functional ownership for design execution, construction delivery, and site operations.

Position Overview

Vantage is building a repeatable, product-led approach to delivering hyperscale infrastructure and operating data centers on a global scale. We are hiring a Senior Manager, Product Performance Benchmarking to establish and evolve the product performance benchmarking capability at the heart of that approach. The benchmarking engine is the governed reference for our products across the full lifecycle, regions, and customer configurations, and will sit behind pricing, RFP responses, and executive reporting for a growing global portfolio. It evaluates the expected schedule, cost, and sustainability of our products across design, delivery, and operations: how long they should take to build, and what they should cost to build and to run.

This is a senior individual contributor role expected to grow into team leadership for someone who combines deep benchmarking, estimating, preconstruction, and project controls experience with the commercial judgement to lead methodology, challenge conventions, and turn data into decisions. You will define what the benchmark should answer, how it is governed, how it is used in decisions, and how internal and external inputs become a durable capability.

What You Will Own

You will build the product performance intelligence capability behind Vantage's global data center platform. This is not a reporting role. It is a chance to define how one of the fastest-scaling infrastructure companies measures cost, schedule, sustainability, lifecycle performance, and value realization across regions, product configurations, and customer requirements. The benchmark you build will shape real decisions: how products are configured, how products translate into cost, schedule, and sustainability impacts, how trade-offs are made, where performance is improving, and where the business needs to change. You will work at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Delivery, Operations, Procurement, Sustainability, and Analytics, with visibility to senior leaders and direct influence over how Vantage becomes more repeatable, data-driven, and product-led.

What You Will Do

• Define the governed benchmarking methodology, baseline assumptions, performance measures, and usage rules Vantage applies globally to configure, cost, schedule, approve, manage, and measure project performance across Product, Engineering, Delivery, Operations, and Sustainability.
• Own the benchmark roadmap across platform, product, regional baselines, configurations, and future product extensions.
• Translate Product, Procurement, Preconstruction, Project Controls, and Sustainability requirements into benchmark scope.
• Lead consultant engagement, reviewing methodology, assumptions, confidence bands, and deliverables.
• Own the WBS/CBS and schedule structure from a product, business-adoption, and use perspective.
• Govern baseline, regional variant, configuration bridge, and factor-pack logic.
• Partner with key stakeholders to incorporate market intelligence, supplier input, and realized cost factors into benchmark updates where appropriate.
• Define target audiences, provide business interpretation, and set reporting requirements for benchmark outputs to senior stakeholders, while partnering with analytics roles on dashboard build and data automation.
• Decide when benchmark outputs are fit for use in RFPs, ROM business cases, customer discussions, product decisions, and executive reporting.
• Own what decisions the benchmark enables and state clearly where confidence is insufficient.

What Success Looks Like

A governed product performance benchmark model exists that connects capital cost, schedule, sustainability and operational cost (energy, efficiency, maintainability) into a single governed reference with explicit methodology, confidence bands, and stated limits. Standardized KPIs and performance criteria are set, with the ability to reliably compare projects across approved variants, regions, product versions from pre-construction.