Portfolio & Strategy Lead - Data Centre
Posted Today by ECS Resource Group
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Portfolio & Strategy Lead - Data Centre role involves shaping the UK strategy and vision for sovereign Data Centre services within a global technology organization. This position focuses on portfolio strategy, offering development, and long-term transformation planning, particularly in areas such as AI, HPC, and hybrid cloud. The role requires strong strategic thinking and stakeholder engagement skills to drive alignment between UK and international portfolio directions. It is a 6-month contract, primarily remote and classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Defining and driving the UK strategy and vision for Data Centre capability
- Developing compelling offerings aligned to wider cloud, AI and infrastructure portfolios
- Supporting go to market strategy and market enablement activities
- Managing portfolio roadmaps, lifecycle planning and transformation initiatives
- Engaging with global stakeholders, partners and wider portfolio teams
- Supporting sales and delivery enablement across the organisation
- Driving alignment between UK strategy and wider international portfolio direction
Key Skills:
- Experience in infrastructure or cloud portfolio strategy
- Offering / service portfolio management
- Experience in Data Centre, hybrid cloud or advanced infrastructure environments
- Knowledge of AI, HPC, sovereign infrastructure or advanced compute capability
- Experience in enterprise technology transformation programmes
- Familiarity with global systems integrator, managed services or large enterprise environments
- Strong strategic thinking and stakeholder engagement skills
- Portfolio leadership capability
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Portfolio & Strategy Lead - Data Centre Initial 6 Month Contract | Remote | Inside IR35
We are supporting a global technology organisation undergoing significant investment and transformation across sovereign infrastructure, advanced compute and next-generation Data Centre capability. This role sits at the centre of shaping the UK strategy, vision and offering roadmap for sovereign Data Centre services, with a strong focus on AI, HPC, hybrid cloud and future compute capability. This is not a traditional operational Data Centre role. The position is focused on portfolio strategy, offering development, go to market alignment and long-term transformation planning across both UK and global business functions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Defining and driving the UK strategy and vision for Data Centre capability
- Developing compelling offerings aligned to wider cloud, AI and infrastructure portfolios
- Supporting go to market strategy and market enablement activities
- Managing portfolio roadmaps, lifecycle planning and transformation initiatives
- Engaging with global stakeholders, partners and wider portfolio teams
- Supporting sales and delivery enablement across the organisation
- Driving alignment between UK strategy and wider international portfolio direction
We are particularly interested in individuals with experience across:
- Infrastructure or cloud portfolio strategy
- Offering / service portfolio management
- Data Centre, hybrid cloud or advanced infrastructure environments
- AI, HPC, sovereign infrastructure or advanced compute capability
- Enterprise technology transformation programmes
- Global systems integrator, managed services or large enterprise environments
The successful individual will bring strong strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement and portfolio leadership capability, alongside the ability to operate across complex enterprise environments. Initial 6 month contract, largely remote and inside IR35.