Senior Vice President, Energy Strategy

Who You Are:

The Senior Vice President Energy Strategy will lead QTSs enterprisewide energy strategy ensuring the company can scale reliably competitively and sustainably in a rapidly evolving energy and infrastructure landscape. This executive will be responsible for shaping and executing QTSs longterm energy strategy including power sourcing grid and utility engagement sustainability and regulatory alignment and risk management across a geographically distributed portfolio.

This role will partner closely with Development Investments Operations Technology and External Affairs to ensure energy strategy is fully integrated into site selection capital deployment customer commitments and longterm growth plans across the United States and international markets.

What You Will Do:

• Own and execute QTSs enterprise energy strategy aligning power sustainability risk and regulatory considerations with business growth objectives.
• Lead strategic engagement with utilities grid operators regulators policymakers and external stakeholders to secure reliable costeffective and scalable power solutions.
• Provide executive leadership for risk management ensuring alignment with internal standards regulatory requirements and investor expectations.
• Oversee sustainability and energyrelated audit activities including thirdparty assurance compliance readiness and governance frameworks.
• Partner with Development and Investments to ensure energy strategy is embedded in site selection land acquisition and project underwriting decisions.
• Drive alignment between energy strategy sustainability commitments and customer requirements including longterm power availability and decarbonization objectives.
• Anticipate and assess energy market dynamics regulatory changes and grid constraints translating insights into actionable strategy and risk mitigation plans.
• Develop and maintain enterprise energy metrics dashboards and reporting to track performance risk exposure and progress against strategic goals.
• Deliver short medium and longterm energy strategy recommendations to senior leadership including tradeoffs risk assessments and capital implications.
• Apply strong financial rigor and business acumen to evaluate energy investments power procurement structures and infrastructure partnerships.
• Provide clear business rationale and risk analysis for proposed investments related to power sustainability and energy infrastructure.
• Balance nearterm execution needs with longterm energy resilience and scalability ensuring QTS remains competitive in constrained power markets.
• Lead develop and inspire highperforming teams including directreport and matrixed partners in a complex fastmoving environment.
• Serve as a senior executive representative with customers partners and external stakeholders on energy strategy sustainability and risk topics.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need to Be Successful:

• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Fifteen or more years of progressive experience in energy strategy infrastructure sustainability regulatory affairs or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterpriselevel strategy in complex regulated environments.
• Proven ability to influence across functions and executive stakeholders in a highgrowth capitalintensive business.
• Experience operating across multiple geographies and markets including utility and regulatory engagement.

Other Key Skills:

• Executivelevel understanding of energy markets power infrastructure grid dynamics and regulatory environments.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical and regulatory issues into clear business strategy.
• Strong risk management mindset with experience building governance controls and assurance frameworks.
• Demonstrated success leading crossfunctional and matrixed teams at scale.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence senior leaders partners and external stakeholders.
• Strong financial and analytical skills including evaluation of longterm investment tradeoffs and risk scenarios.
• Ability to operate effectively in periods of rapid growth change and uncertainty.
• Track record of building durable teams setting clear objectives and driving accountability and results.
• Strategic thinker with the execution discipline to deliver outcomes in a fastpaced environment.

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