Who You Are: The Senior Director, Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is accountable for leading the enterprise planning and decision-making framework that integrates customer demand, real estate pipeline, power availability, supply chain, construction delivery, and capital deployment into a single, coordinated enterprise plan.
Operating as a senior enterprise leader, this role ensures that where, when, and how capacity is developed is governed through a disciplined IBP management system. The role enables executive leadership to make informed, fact-based tradeoffs across markets, sites, timing, capital, and risk, supporting long-range growth while protecting capital efficiency and delivery credibility.
The Senior Director serves as the enterprise integrator across Development, Power & Utilities, Design & Construction, Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, and Strategy functions.
What You Will Do: Enterprise IBP Leadership & Governance- Own the enterprise Integrated Business Planning operating model, including governance, decision rights, planning cadence, and executive forums.
- Design and facilitate executive planning rhythms that reconcile demand, capacity, capital, and delivery constraints.
- Establish IBP as a core management system governing growth, timing, and capital allocation-not a functional planning exercise.
Real Estate Pipeline & Market Planning- Integrate the end-to-end real estate pipeline into the enterprise plan, including market screening, site identification, optioned parcels, contracted land, and entitled assets.
- Enable disciplined sequencing and pacing of site development based on demand signals, power availability, entitlement readiness, and capital constraints.
- Provide transparent data to support advance, hold, defer, or exit decisions across markets and sites.
- Ensure land investment aligns with long-range capacity strategy and portfolio priorities.
Power Availability & Capacity Integration- Integrate power availability and MW capacity planning as binding constraints within the enterprise plan.
- Align utility commitments, delivery schedules, substations, and transmission capacity with real estate readiness and construction phasing.
- Surface risks related to power timing, availability, cost, and reliability for executive decision-making.
- Ensure demand commitments and go-to-market strategies are grounded in deliverable power and infrastructure capacity.
Entitlements, Development Readiness & Phasing- Incorporate entitlement status, permitting timelines, zoning requirements, and jurisdictional risks into planning assumptions.
- Align entitlement progress with site sequencing, power delivery windows, and capital release timing.
- Provide visibility into development readiness gates that govern progression from site control to construction start.
Capital Planning, Scenario Planning & Portfolio Tradeoffs- Integrate multi-year capital plans across land acquisition, utility infrastructure, shell, and phased capacity build-out.
- Enable scenario planning for demand variability, power delays, entitlement risk, and cost escalation.
- Support capital gating, reprioritization, and reallocation decisions across markets and projects.
- Provide executive leadership with clear tradeoffs between growth acceleration, optionality, risk exposure, and return.
Supply Chain, Construction & Delivery Alignment- Integrate supply chain constraints, long-lead equipment, and vendor capacity into development and construction plans.
- Align customer demand signals, construction schedules, phasing strategies, and delivery commitments with supply availability and power timing.
- Ensure enterprise plans reflect realistic execution capabilities, not aspirational schedules.
Sales & Leasing Support - Informs Sales and Leasing decisions related to market availability, MW capacity, delivery timing, and expansion optionality.
- Translate customer requirements-including required MW, delivery dates, phasing expectations, redundancy, and scalability-into planning assumptions aligned with real estate readiness, power availability, entitlement status, construction phasing, and capital constraints.
- Partner with leadership to evaluate customer inquiries and pipeline opportunities, clearly articulating feasible commitments, capital impacts, risks, and required tradeoffs.
- Provide timely, decision-grade recommendations to support customer commitment approvals and ensure alignment with enterprise priorities and deliverable capacity.
Performance Management, Analytics & Decision Support- Define and own IBP-related KPIs tied to capacity delivery, capital efficiency, service readiness, schedule confidence, and risk exposure.
- Ensure planning outputs are decision-grade, analytically rigorous, and transparent.
- Partner with systems and analytics teams to enable scalable, digital planning and scenario-modeling capabilities.
Leadership, Change & Capability Enablement- Lead and develop IBP and enterprise planning talent aligned to institutional standards.
- Drive adoption of IBP processes, tools, and behaviors across a complex, matrixed organization.
- Champion fact-based decision-making, enterprise accountability, and disciplined growth management.
Scope & Impact- Enterprise-wide planning authority across multiple markets and geographies.
- Multi-billion-dollar real estate and capital development portfolio.
- Planning horizons spanning 3-10+ years.
- Regular engagement with senior and executive leadership and capital committee.
- Direct influence over market entry, site sequencing, capacity timing, and capital deployment.
- Other Duties as Assigned.
What You Will Need to Be Successful: - 11+ years of progressive leadership experience in integrated planning, development, supply chain, capital planning, or enterprise operations.
- Demonstrated success leading IBP, portfolio planning, or enterprise governance in a capital-intensive environment.
- Proven ability to operate at the executive level and facilitate senior decision forums.
- Strong systems thinker with the ability to synthesize complex, multi-constraint inputs into actionable recommendations.
- Track record of influencing across functions without direct authority.
Nice to Have:- 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in integrated planning, development, supply chain, capital planning, or enterprise operations.
- Experience in data center development, infrastructure, real estate development, energy, or similarly asset-intensive industries.
- Familiarity with land acquisition, entitlement processes, power procurement, and utility coordination.
- Experience integrating long-range capacity planning with capital and execution realities.
Other Key Skills: (KSAs) - Enterprise-oriented, strategic, and disciplined.
- Comfortable making decisions amid uncertainty and high capital exposure.
- Executive presence with strong facilitation and communication skills.
- Pragmatic change leader with strong business judgment.
