VP Corporate Development | Data Centres
Pubblicato il 17-08-2026 - WNTD in Milano
About the Opportunity
We are recruiting a Vice President, Corporate Development for a growing European data centre platform.
This is a senior, high-impact appointment for an experienced data centre professional who can combine strong commercial judgement with financial modelling, investment analysis and strategic decision-making.
Working closely with the executive leadership team, the successful candidate will play a central role in evaluating growth opportunities, supporting investment decisions and helping shape the company’s continued expansion across Europe.
This is not a generalist corporate development role. Direct experience within the data centre industry is essential.
The Role
The Vice President, Corporate Development will be responsible for identifying, assessing and supporting strategic growth opportunities across the business.
The role will include evaluating new markets, sites, customer opportunities, strategic partnerships, investments and potential transactions.
You will build and review detailed financial models, assess risk and return,
prepare investment cases and provide clear recommendations to senior leadership.
You will work closely with finance, commercial, operations, development and construction teams to ensure that commercial and financial assumptions are grounded in operational reality.
The position offers significant exposure to executive leadership, investors and board-level decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support corporate development activity across the platform.
- Identify and evaluate strategic growth opportunities.
- Assess new markets, sites, customer opportunities and strategic partnerships.
- Build, own and refine detailed financial models.
- Prepare investment cases, scenario analysis and commercial recommendations.
- Support business planning and long-term growth strategy.
- Analyse capital requirements, investment returns and commercial risk.
- Support potential M&A; activity, including valuation, due