Data Centre Market Leader Australia in Sydney

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy committed to delivering impactful work that shapes the future. We are a team of over 20,000 experts across more than 50 countries. Our success is powered by our brilliant people, who bring a diverse range of skills, experiences, and viewpoints to achieve extraordinary results. As a proudly employee-owned business, we prioritise fairness, integrity, and the wellbeing of our team. We offer numerous opportunities for learning, growth, and excellence, ensuring that everyone feels empowered, supported, and valued.

As demand for digital infrastructure accelerates, we’re looking for a strategic, commercially driven leader to grow our Data Centres business across Australia and New Zealand. Located in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane you’ll shape our national growth strategy, build relationships with influential clients and unite multidisciplinary expertise to deliver complex, high-value projects.

The Opportunity

As Data Centre Market Leader, you will drive portfolio growth across Australia and New Zealand by strengthening client relationships, identifying major opportunities, leading strategic pursuits and guiding project delivery. Working across Buildings, Energy, Water, Environment, Defence, Digital and Transport, you will position Mott MacDonald as a trusted partner to hyperscalers, developers, operators and investors.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver the Australia and New Zealand growth strategy and annual business plan.
• Build relationships across the data centre ecosystem, including hyperscalers, developers, operators and investors.
• Identify priority opportunities and lead major pursuits, bids and capture strategies.
• Act as Project Principal on strategically significant projects, supporting successful delivery and enduring client partnerships.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership across power, water, resilience, sustainability, approvals and speed-to-operation.
• Bring together sectors and disciplines to deliver integrated client solutions.
• Strengthen our value proposition, go-to-market approach and industry positioning.
• Grow a high-performing Data Centres community and leverage our global network to build local capability.

What You'll Bring

You will bring technical credibility, commercial acumen and strong relationships within the data centre sector. You'll likely have:

• Significant experience leading major data centre projects, programmes or portfolios.
• Established relationships within the Australian data centre market.
• A strong record of delivering growth strategies and winning major projects.
• Strong commercial, business development and senior client engagement skills.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and developing capability.
• The ability to operate as a trusted advisor and create long-term client value.

Why Join Us?

Join a globally connected team delivering critical infrastructure across the region. You will have the opportunity to:

• Shape a rapidly growing market sector in Australia and New Zealand.
• Work with leading hyperscalers, developers, investors and operators.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary experts and access global capability and innovation.
• Build a market-leading Data Centres business.

Culture & Benefits

Mott MacDonald celebrates diversity and inclusion, offering a supportive work environment that values work-life balance, diversity, inclusion, and equity. We welcome diverse applicants, including First Nations People, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and people of all genders, neurodiversity, cultural backgrounds, age groups, and those with intersectional identities.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

• An agile work atmosphere that caters to your professional journey and life's special moments.
• A competitive salary complemented by Discretionary Group and Personal Performance Bonuses for eligible employees.
• Comprehensive coverage including life and salary continuance insurance, providing peace of mind during uncertain times.
• Opportunities to enhance your work-life balance through the option to purchase extra annual leave.
• Employee resource groups including the Inclusive Network for Women, Corporate Social Responsibility and more.

Employee ownership

Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success. Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses. As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution. Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.

We endorse a diverse and inclusive workplace, and look to provide suitable opportunities for employees including the opportunity for part time and job shared roles where possible.