Regional Manager EMEA, Data Center Capacity Delivery

Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Training and serving frontier AI models requires data center capacity at a scale and pace that conventional delivery models were not built for. Anthropics Data Center Capacity Delivery team embeds with developers general contractors and third-party partners to take leased and partnered sites from deal close through floor access and operational handover as fast as they can safely be built.

As a Regional Manager youll own delivery across a regional portfolio of active and upcoming projects. Youll build and lead the team of Senior Delivery Managers and third-party partners who sit on those sites set the standards they execute to and step in yourself where a project needs it. You are the executive-level interface to our developer partners in the region and the intake point for projects handed over from our transaction team.

This is a highly cross-functional role: youll work daily with our transaction design engineering facility operations and commissioning deployment and safety teams and with developers GCs and owners-representative firms on the ground.

Deliver the regions data center projects to floor access as fast as they can safely be built.

• Every active project in the region delivered against early-floor-access and floor-access milestones.

• Senior Delivery Manager team hired and led; owners-rep partners contracted and managed.

• Delivery standards (schedule quality change control reporting) enforced across the portfolio.

• Executive reporting on progress vs plan and regional capacity projections in place.

• Senior owner- or GC-side mission-critical delivery leadership.

• Builds and leads multi-project teams.

• Executive-level developer and GC relationship management.

• Leads on site through presence; owns outcomes where no process exists.

• Lead. This is a role where leadership trumps management and process. You are expected to be on the regions sites enough to shape the culture approach and aggressiveness that define the extended teams there across the portfolio not one project and to impact outcomes in a favorable manner.

• Be a force multiplier. Hire develop empower and lead the Senior Delivery Managers on those sites and raise the skillset developers contractors owners-rep partners and key trades bring to every project in the region; plan resourcing and headcount as the portfolio grows.

• Own portfolio execution for the region schedule quality and safety outcomes on every active project measured against early-floor-access and floor-access milestones. You are empowered and have autonomy to own this regions record of performance.

• Drive ownership and influence both inside and outside contractual structures: select scope contract and manage owners-rep and project-management partners; where contracts incentives or culture get in the way of speed change them and replace partners when performance or culture slips

• Set and enforce delivery standards across projects integrated schedule quality requirements change control reporting and tools and validate that they are met

• Identify blockers early and clear them across developer GC and trade layers; step in on site where a project needs it

• Have 10 years delivering data center or other mission-critical construction including several as the owners or GCs senior leader on a project campus

• Have led a multi-project portfolio and built the team that delivered it

• Know the end-to-end development process entitlements and permitting design long-lead equipment construction commissioning and handover well enough to direct partners rather than take their word for it

• Have managed developer GC and third-party relationships at the executive level and can move them from arms-length contract administration to shared urgency

• Lead through presence: you expect to be on site most of the time and to set the pace and culture of extended teams you dont directly employ

• Communicate clearly with technical and non-specialist stakeholders and hold a position when challenged

• Are comfortable with ambiguity and with owning outcomes where no process exists yet

• Hyperscale data center delivery experience on the owner developer or GC side

• Experience with the UK and continental European market its contractors permitting regimes and contractual norms

• Familiarity with lease construction and development contract structures and how to align their incentives around speed

Minimum education: Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework training or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

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