Overview
- This role ensures consistent execution, transparency, and accountability across a growing and increasingly complex portfolio of operational and CAPEX programs. It does not own day‑to‑day site execution, but owns governance, execution quality, and leadership visibility across sites and programmes.

Responsibilities:
- Portfolio Governance & Oversight

Own the regional governance framework for Datacenter Operations initiatives across Operations, IT, CE, Build, and Lease functions.

Establish and enforce standardized approaches for:
- Initiative intake and prioritization
- Scope definition and success criteria
- Decision rights and escalation paths
- Governance cadence and artefacts
- Eliminate fragmented or overlapping ownership and ensure governance scales with portfolio growth and regulatory complexity.

Execution& Initiative Oversight

Maintain a consolidated, portfolio‑level view of all regional initiatives sponsored by Datacenter Operations leadership.

Ensure every initiative has:
- A clear accountable owner and RACI
- Defined scope, milestones, and timelines




- Transparent, consistent status reporting
- Proactively identify execution risks, delivery gaps, and misalignment; escalate early with options and recommendations.

Risk Management & Transparency

Maintain an integrated view of operational, compliance, and regulatory risks across the regional portfolio.

Ensure risks are:
- Captured early by working with internal and external teams that impact Operations
- Assessed consistently
- Actively mitigated with accountable owners
- Provide leadership with clear, data‑driven visibility on risk posture, trends, and residual exposure.
- Cross‑Campus & Cross‑Program Alignment
- Drive alignment across campuses and programs to ensure consistent interpretation and execution of standards and policies.

Act as the integrator between:
- Campus Directors
- Site Operations Managers
- IT Operations and Critical Environment leadership
- Build & Lease programs
- Regio

📌 Operational Excellence Program Manager (Madrid)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Madrid