Senior Director, Capital Planning

Who We Are:

Its exciting to find yourself standing in a pivotal moment in time. Its even more exciting to be out front leading it. At QTS our world-class data centers are supporting our customers most strategic growth initiatives positioning us at the forefront of todays dynamic digital transformation.

As AI and cloud drive the demand for increased speed capacity and capability QTS has emerged as the global digital infrastructure leader committed to connecting the world for good. Driven by purpose and fueled by a spirit of innovation QTS designs builds and operates some of the worlds most advanced forward-thinking data is a portfolio company of Blackstone.

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Who You Are:

The Senior Director Capital Planning is an enterprise leader responsible for defining governing and delivering the single authoritative view of capital outlook performance and risk across the companys multi-billion dollar development portfolio.

Operating at the center of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) framework this role drives the capital planning dimension of enterprise decision-makingtranslating strategy into capital deployment pathways and ensuring alignment between growth objectives investment decisions and execution realities.

This role serves as the enterprise authority on development capital directly informing and influencing executive leadership Capital Committee and Board-level decisions. The Senior Director integrates inputs across leasing demand real estate power supply chain construction delivery and project controls into a cohesive scenario-driven capital narrative that enables disciplined capital allocation and risk-informed investment decisions.

The role owns enterprise accountability for capital integrity transparency and governanceensuring capital plans are accurate reconciled operationally grounded and audit-ready.

What You Will Do:

• Lead development of the enterprise capital plan validating assumptions and timing across demand real estate power supply chain and delivery performance reforecasts and translating them into a portfoliowide decisionready capital outlook.
• Serve as the enterprise authority on capital planning challenging assumptions trade-offs and investment priorities to enable disciplined capital allocation.
• Own enterprise accountability for capital integrity ensuring the multi-year capital plan is accurate reconciled operationally grounded and audit-ready.
• Translate long-term growth strategy into scenario-based capital deployment analysis owning scenario outputs for executive cross-portfolio trade-off decisions across growth capacity liquidity and risk.
• Quantify portfolio capital risks trends and execution impacts providing executive leadership with clear recommendations on exposure priorities and investment implications.
• Ensure projectlevel development capital requests are rigorously validated before aggregation into the enterprise capital plan and presentation to Capital Committee.
• Frame and deliver the executive capital narrative to Capital Committee clearly articulating changes drivers and implications to capital deployment liquidity and risk.
• Partner with Accounting and Finance to lead the enterprise capital planning framework ensuring governance alignment and audit-ready reporting.
• Lead postcompletion capital performance reviews and embed lessons learned into estimating standards forecasting methodologies and planning assumptions to strengthen future decision-making.
• Build and lead a high-performing enterprise capital planning and reporting team driving alignment across cross-functional teams without direct authority by setting standards for analytical rigor and execution credibility.
• Serve as senior interface for executive leadership and investment partners aligning internal capital strategy with growth and risk expectations.

What You Will Need to Be Successful:

• Bachelors degree in Business Finance Accounting or a related field.
• 15 years of progressive experience in capital planning development finance enterprise planning analytics or closely related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience owning or influencing executive and Boardlevel planning governance and investment decisions within large capitalintensive portfolios.
• Exceptional analytical capability with the ability to synthesize complex crossfunctional inputs into clear persuasive decisionoriented insights.
• Proven people leadership experience with a track record of building developing and leading highperforming teams.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in real estate development data centers infrastructure energy or similarly assetintensive industries.
• Deep understanding of development execution lifecycles construction cost drivers and capital forecasting in highgrowth environments.
• Demonstrated success operating within integrated planning enterprise governance or portfolio management frameworks.

Other Key Skills:

• Ability to make and guide high-stakes decisions with incomplete or evolving information balancing speed risk and long-term enterprise impact
• Ability to align senior leaders with competing priorities resolve conflict and drive enterprise agreements across highly matrixed teams without direct authority
• Ability to stand up and scale enterprise planning disciplines driving adoption of standardized processes governance and behaviors across a rapidly growing organization

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