Senior Manager, Portfolio Management & Planning Data Centre Infrastructure

Summary

Bells AI Fabric program is a groundbreaking national initiative designed to position Canada as a global leader in Sovereign AI. By building a secure highperformance coasttocoast compute fabric Bell is creating the foundational infrastructure required to power the next generation of AI innovation while ensuring data sovereignty resilience and scalability at national scale.

Bell is seeking a Senior Manager Portfolio Management & Planning Data Centre Infrastructure to lead portfoliolevel planning and prioritization across its national data centre program. Reporting to the Director Business Operations this role ensures customer demand funding delivery capacity and operational readiness are aligned through disciplined portfolio roadmaps and decision support.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead early project definition activities including objectives scope functional requirements and highlevel performance criteria.
• Assess feasibility across technical operational schedule and readiness dimensions prior to initiation of detailed design.
• Proactively identify earlystage risks (technical regulatory delivery operational commercial) at the portfolio and initiative level.
• Develop preliminary mitigation strategies and readiness assumptions to inform prioritization and sequencing decisions.
• Identify highlevel regulatory permitting and approval requirements associated with prospective sites and project types.
• Outline anticipated permitting pathways and constraints to inform early feasibility and sequencing.
• Serve as the front door for Engineering and Operations engagement maintaining a funnellevel view of future sites capacity needs and timing assumptions.
• Ensure early demand signals are sufficiently defined and validated before progressing into design or delivery planning.
• Identify longlead procurement requirements arising from early planning including items required ahead of site finalization.
• Partner with Procurement to inform longlead strategies and readiness planning.
• Facilitate early engagement with internal and external stakeholders to gather inputs and ensure alignment on scope readiness and assumptions.
• Ensure early decisions and assumptions are documented and communicated to downstream teams.

Critical Qualifications

• 810 years of experience in portfolio management project planning business operations or earlystage project development within data centre infrastructure utilities or other missioncritical environments.
• Demonstrated experience in frontend project definition including scope development feasibility assessment and readiness evaluation prior to detailed design or construction.
• Proven ability to identify earlystage risks (technical regulatory delivery operational) and translate them into actionable planning assumptions or mitigation strategies.
• Ability to structure and communicate ambiguous earlyphase information into clear options assumptions and recommendations for leadership decisionmaking.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting data centre or missioncritical facility development including greenfield or expansion projects.
• Familiarity with regulatory permitting and utility coordination considerations in infrastructure or datacentrestyle projects.
• Experience identifying longlead procurement drivers during early planning phases and partnering with procurement teams on readiness strategies.
• Exposure to portfolio planning intake governance or capital planning frameworks in large complex organizations.
• Comfort working with highlevel financial schedule and capacity assumptions to support feasibility and prioritization discussions (without owning detailed cost/schedule controls).
• Experience supporting growthstage or rapidly scaling infrastructure portfolios.