Site Selection team will work on conducting overseas facility market research, negotiating deals, managing vendor and partner relationships and presenting deal strategy and proposals to our leadership. The team will work with networking, procurement and finance team to identify locations and sites of interest for self-developed, build to suit or co-location facilities, establish contacts and build relationships with 3rd party facility providers as well as facility developers, landowners, economic development officials, power grid and energy companies, telecommunications companies and government officials.
Lead negotiations for technical and service contracts with these key stakeholders with knowledge of existing contracts, compliance measures, local relationships, and company goals. Tasks may include advocating a broad range of compliance issues including site/infrastructure development strategy and milestone tracking.
Work with internal and external teams to identify, define, and pursue new site selection projects and initiatives to meet Alibaba’s ongoing facility needs, including the procurement of traditional and green energy for existing and new sites.
Lead the site evaluation and selection process from start to finish, monitoring progress against objectives, providing regular status reports, and advocating financial metrics to support both site and energy-related portfolio decisions as required.
Manage the strategy with capacity planning team for ongoing growth at existing sites, develop metrics for mapping, tracking, and advocating of a broad range of portfolio management issues regarding site/infrastructure development.
Bachelors degree in technology, engineering, science, economics or a related field.
~5+ years of international site selection or acquisition experience in mission-critical, large scale production facilities such as plants, facilities.
~ Experience in developing strategic agreements, project management and financial modeling.
~ Experience with any of the following: large colocation deals, site selection for industrial-scale projects, real estate evaluation, acquisition, development, and construction, negotiating or managing utility agreements, financial modeling.
Experience with end-to-end industrial-scale infrastructure development in support of facilities.
Able to speak mandarin as this role will communicate with HQ in Hangzhou on regular base.