Vice President, Integrated Business Planning

Who You Are:

The Vice President Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is the enterprise owner of the integrated planning and decisionmaking management system that governs where when and how QTS deploys capacity and capital across markets. This role integrates customer demand real estate pipeline power availability entitlements supply chain readiness construction delivery and capital deployment into a single disciplined enterprise plan.

Operating as a senior enterprise executive the VP IBP enables the CEO ELT and Capital Committee to make factbased crossportfolio tradeoffs across markets sites timing capital and risk. The role ensures growth commitments are grounded in deliverable power executable schedules and prudent capital allocation protecting capital efficiency delivery credibility and longrange growth optionality across a multibilliondollar investment portfolio. IBP functions as a core enterprise management system not a functional planning exercise.

What You Will Do:

Enterprise IBP Leadership & Governance

Serve as enterprise owner of the Integrated Business Planning management system including governance design decision rights executive forums scenarios and planning cadence.

• Establish IBP as the governing mechanism for growth pacing capacity timing and capital allocation across the enterprise.
• Chair or facilitate executive planning and reconciliation forums that surface tradeoffs and drive clear documented decisions.

Enterprise Capacity Market & Pipeline Integration

• Integrate the endtoend real estate power entitlement and development readiness pipeline into a single enterprise capacity plan.
• Govern market entry site sequencing and pacing decisions based on demand signals power delivery entitlement readiness execution capacity and capital constraints.
• Ensure transparent decisiongrade visibility into advance hold defer or exit options across markets and assets.

Power Availability & Infrastructure Alignment

• Embed MW availability and power delivery timing as binding constraints within the enterprise plan.
• Align utility commitments substations transmission capacity and infrastructure investments with real estate readiness and construction phasing.
• Elevate powerrelated risksincluding timing cost reliability and scalabilityto executive leadership to inform demand commitments and gotomarket strategy.

Capital Planning Portfolio Strategy & Scenario Governance

• Own the enterprise multiyear capital planning and scenario framework spanning land utilities shell and phased capacity buildout.
• Enable scenariobased evaluation of demand volatility power delays entitlement risk cost escalation and execution capacity.
• Support Capital Committee and executive leadership with clear tradeoffs between growth acceleration optionality risk exposure and return.
• Inform capital gating reprioritization and reallocation decisions across markets and projects.

Supply Chain Construction & Delivery Realism

• Integrate supply chain constraints longlead equipment availability and vendor capacity into enterprise plans.
• Ensure development and construction schedules reflect realistic execution capabilities not aspirational targets.
• Align phasing strategies delivery commitments and capital release timing with supply and power realities.

Commercial Sales & Customer Commitment Enablement

• Provide enterprise guidance to Commercial Sales and Leasing on market availability MW capacity delivery timing and expansion optionality.
• Translate customer requirements into planning assumptions grounded in deliverable capacity and enterprise priorities.
• Partner with executive leadership to evaluate customer commitments clearly articulating feasibility capital impact risk and required tradeoffs before approval.

Performance Management Analytics & Decision Support

• Define and own IBP performance metrics tied to capacity delivery confidence capital efficiency service readiness schedule credibility and enterprise risk.
• Ensure all planning outputs are decisiongrade analytically rigorous and transparent.
• Partner with systems and analytics leaders to enable scalable digital planning and scenariomodeling capabilities.

Leadership Change & Enterprise Enablement

• Build and lead a highcaliber enterprise planning organization aligned to institutional standards.
• Drive consistent adoption of IBP processes tools and behaviors across a complex matrixed enterprise.
• Champion enterprise accountability factbased decision making and disciplined growth management.

Scope & Impact

• Enterprisewide authority across multiple markets and geographies
• Direct influence over market entry site sequencing MW timing and capital deployment
• Multibilliondollar real estate and infrastructure development portfolio
• Planning horizons spanning 310 years
• Regular engagement with CEO ELT and Capital Committee

What You Will Need to Be Successful:

• 15 years of progressive leadership experience in integrated planning development infrastructure supply chain capital planning or enterprise operations
• Demonstrated success owning enterprise IBP portfolio planning or capital governance in a capitalintensive environment
• Proven ability to operate at the executive and boardadjacent level synthesizing complex tradeoffs into clear recommendations
• Track record of influencing and governing outcomes across functions without direct authority
• Exceptional systems thinking and executive communication skills

Nice to Have:

• Experience in data center development real estate development infrastructure energy or similar assetintensive industries
• Deep familiarity with land acquisition entitlements power procurement and utility coordination
• Experience integrating longrange capacity planning with capital discipline and execution realities

Executive Leadership Profile:

• Enterpriseoriented strategic and disciplined
• Comfortable governing growth amid uncertainty and high capital exposure
• Strong executive presence and facilitation skills
• Pragmatic credible change leader with sound business judgment

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