Senior Real Estate Manager, Colocation Solutions

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 133,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Position Description

Zayo Group maintains a global real estate portfolio of office space, warehouses, and technical facilities to sustain and operate our network. Our Senior Real Estate Manager, Colocation Solutions reports into the Real Estate Department and manages a team focused on Zayo’s relationships and contracts with Third Party Data Center operators.

Responsibilities

• Manage the existing Colocation portfolio including contracts for space and power in 3rd Party Data Centers and ILA’s and Carrier POPs.

• Negotiate all aspects of MSA’s to comply with financial, business and operational objectives.

• Maintain a centralized contract database for all Colocation agreements, using Salesforce.

• Manage and sustain vendor relationships (Operators, Brokers, etc.).

• Support cost savings initiatives and strictly manage budgets.

• Troubleshoot facilities issues and coordinate resolutions with in-market resources.

• Uphold frequent and regular communication with internal groups (Sales, Operations, Legal, Adjacent Real Estate team members etc.) to ensure understanding of diverse and continuously changing space and power needs of each group.

• Comply with departmental and internal company controls and processes.

• Miscellaneous other duties and responsibilities as may be requested or required by management.

Qualifications

• Five - ten (5 - 10) years managing either the acquisition of Technical Space for a Telecommunications Carrier or comparable experience in buying/selling data center space at a Neutral Host Data Center Operator

• Strong understanding of industry standard contrast forms: MSAs, SLAs and the T&Cs associated with each

• Experience reading and understanding complex real estate contracts

• Proficient with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Contract Database programs

• Experience with Salesforce, preferred

• Experience reviewing, gathering, compiling and summarizing financial data

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

• Negotiation, analytical and organizational skills

• High energy individual with a strong work ethic

• Attention to detail and the ability to provide administrative support to a busy commercial real estate department

• Self-motivated individual that can establish and complete short and long term objectives

• Possess and employ the highest ethical and business standards and always conduct himself/herself with the greatest degree of professional integrity

Base pay range: $114,400-$162,000, commensurate with experience.

Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan

• Fitness membership discounts

• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.