Customer Delivery Manager
Job Description
What we need:
Reporting to the Customer Project Delivery Director, the Customer Delivery Manager (CDM) will act as the primary customer-facing delivery owner for our hyperscale customers, overseeing the successful coordination, integration, and delivery of customer requirements from contract signing through to Ready for Service (RFS)
The role works cross-functionally with construction, design, and operations teams to ensure alignment between customer requirements and delivery execution across the project lifecycle. The role is project-specific and will be locally based for the duration of the project, providing on-site delivery leadership, supported by a platform-level Customer Project Delivery Director to ensure governance, escalation management, and consistency across projects.
Key responsibilities:
Customer Delivery Management:
· Act as the primary point of contact for customers during project delivery (build phase), RFS, and customer onboarding, ensuring alignment to contractual commitments and delivery milestones
· Support customer engagement during pre-contract stage to support requirements definition and smooth transition into delivery
· Ensure key customer milestones (e.g., Early Access, RFS) and contractual requirements are clearly tracked and achieved
· Deliver regular progress reporting and facilitate customer audits and inspections during project delivery phases
· Proactively manage customer expectations, escalations, and risks to maintain delivery confidence and satisfaction
RequirementsDefinition and Design Coordination
· Translate customer requirements into a structured scope and work breakdown
· Identify and define what needs to be delivered without performing detailed engineering design
· Coordinate with Design Engineering and Solution Engineering teams to validate technical feasibility and design solutions
Project and Program Management
· Develop and manage delivery programmes covering customer scope and key dependencies
· Track progress against milestones and ensure alignment with overall project timelines
Customer Change Request Management:
· Manage customer change requests, ensuring all customer changes are assessed for cost and schedule impact
Fit-Out Vendor Coordination:
· Manage delivery of customer fit-out activities, including vendor coordination, site access, and installation sequencing
Customer Handover and Onboarding
· Own handover of facility to customer during RFS
· Drive successful customer onboarding, working with Customer Success Management and Operation steams to enable a smooth transition into BAU operations
Key Performance Index
· On-time RFS delivery: % of projects delivered on or before committed RFS date
· Customer satisfaction: Customer satisfaction score (CSAT/NPS) across delivery lifecycle
· Contract adherence: % compliance to contractual scope with minimal deviations, cost deviations, or disputes
· Successful customer onboarding: % of onboarding milestones achieved on time with minimal escalations or rework
The successful candidate:
Technical and Delivery Capabilities
· 10+ years of experience leading and owning end-to-end project delivery within critical operating environments (Data Center preferred)
· Proven experience in driving data centre infrastructure delivery
· Experience making delivery and commercial decisions and managing trade-offs across schedule, cost, and technical constraints
· Experience working with hyperscale or large enterprise customers in data centre, cloud, or IT services
· Strong understanding of data centre infrastructure, especially electrical &mechanical services
· Able to define scope and work breakdown, and coordinate engineering inputs
Customer and Stakeholder Management
· Strong customer-facing experience, having operated as a primary interface in delivery environment
· Customer-oriented, with a proactive approach to ensuring high-quality delivery and satisfaction
· Proven ability to navigate multi-stakeholder environments across internal teams, vendors, and customer organisations
· Able to manage escalations, conflicts, and competing priorities
Tools and Qualifications
· Proficient in MSOffice, MS Project / Aconex (or similar)
· Project Management (PMP) certification preferred
Language Proficiency
· Fluent in spoken and written English
Fluent in spoken and written Mandarin