Senior Manager, Investment Management, NA

About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Commercial Department

The Commercial Team directs the full lifecycle of Vantage’s assets—from initial evaluation through long‑term performance—serving as the central owner of strategy, pricing, and commercial decision‑making. The team leads cross‑functional analysis to guide investment choices, develops data‑driven pricing and deal structures, and manages all major customer proposals and negotiations to ensure disciplined, value‑accretive outcomes. Commercial also maintains comprehensive visibility into asset readiness, financial performance, market dynamics, and portfolio trends, providing leadership with clear insights that shape capital allocation and long‑term growth strategy. By integrating analytics, governance, and execution, the Commercial Team drives consistent, high‑quality commercial results and positions the organization for scalable, transparent growth.

Position Overview

This position will be based on-site at our office in Denver, CO. in alignment with our flexible work policy. (3 days on site required, 2 days flexible).

The Senior Manager, Investment Management is responsible for asset-level commercial ownership for post‑acquisition projects in North America—supporting the transition from land acquisition through major commitments and into lease execution. This role serves as a single accountable owner for turning cross‑functional inputs into clear, decision‑ready recommendations through standardized processes and durable “single source of truth” artifacts.

This role partners closely with cross‑functional stakeholders (e.g., Market Development, Energy, Construction, Sales/SE, Capital Markets, Corp Dev, Public Policy, Finance, Legal, and Operations) to validate assumptions, surface key risks/commitments, and frame executive‑ready decisions that protect returns and drive consistent capital outcomes.

Essential Job Functions

Investment Decision Materials & Approval Enablement (Post-Acquisition)

• Own the quality and consistency of investment decision materials for assigned projects (e.g., investment memos / approval packages), ensuring they clearly present key assumptions, capital commitments, return implications, and principal risks/mitigations.

• Coordinate cross‑functional inputs and convert raw data into clear, decision‑ready recommendations that advance opportunities through the company’s approval process.

• Maintain a structured cadence for major commitments (e.g., capital releases, project‑level scope changes, and other high‑impact decisions), including meeting preparation and executive‑level readouts.

Lease Negotiation & Execution

• Participate in lease negotiations and execution activities in partnership with Sales, Solution Engineering, and Legal, serving as a representative of the business to support commercially sound outcomes.

• Ensure proposed terms, commitments, and concessions remain consistent with approved underwriting—explicitly identifying where economics, scope, schedule, or risk transfer deviates and proposing practical mitigations or alternatives.

• Help drive internal alignment and decisioning on negotiation positions by translating customer asks into clear tradeoffs (risk, return, schedule, and deliverability) and preparing concise, executive‑ready summaries.

Complex Modeling, Underwriting & Return Integrity

• Provide analytical leadership for complex modeling projects and underwriting updates that support leasing strategy, joint venture / partnership considerations, and major investment decisions.

• Build and maintain scenarios and sensitivity analyses to quantify the impact of key variables (e.g., pricing, capex, schedule, power/utility assumptions, monetization scenarios, and financing terms) and translate outputs into clear recommendations.

• Ensure recommendations explicitly frame risk/return tradeoffs, scenario impacts, and key sensitivities, and that they align to standardized underwriting expectations and risk discipline.

Pipeline, Inventory Visibility & Comparable Insight

• Support disciplined visibility into project pipeline and owned inventory by building and maintaining dashboards and recurring reporting that informs prioritization and capital allocation.

• Foster relationships with market participants to support the collection and organization of comparable data (market comps) used in underwriting and strategic positioning

Cross‑Functional Influence & Risk Mitigation

• Serve as a single accountable point within Commercial for synthesizing partner‑team inputs into cohesive recommendations—surfacing ris