JDL Recruitment are delighted to be partnering with a fast-growing Middle-Eastern data centre platform expanding rapidly across Europe as they look to add a Director of Business Development and Site Acquisition, based in Madrid, Spain .
This is a senior, permanent origination role responsible for growing the platform's European footprint, identifying and acquiring land and powered sites, structuring land and partnership transactions, and securing the grid capacity, permitting and local relationships that make a site developable. The primary focus is Spain and southern Europe, with scope into the Nordics and Central Europe as the platform scales.

Responsibilities:
- Support the definition and execution of the European expansion strategy, identifying priority regions based on power availability, demand, connectivity and regulatory conditions
- Build and maintain a pipeline of land, powered land, powered shell and brownfield opportunities across target geographies
- Develop and maintain relationships with landowners, developers, brokers, utilities,



grid operators and regional authorities across southern Europe
- Identify opportunities to combine data centre development with renewable generation, PPAs and energy storage where commercially relevant
- Lead land acquisition end to end, from initial approach through option agreements, exclusivity, negotiation and completion
- Structure acquisition transactions including outright purchase, options, ground leases, forward funding and staged payment structures
- Secure grid connection capacity, power reservations, substation arrangements and utility agreements essential to site viability
- Coordinate technical, environmental, geotechnical and title due diligence with internal teams and external advisers
- Originate and structure platform acquisitions, corporate transactions and portfolio deals to accelerate market entry
- Structure joint ventures, development partnerships and co-development arrangements with local partners
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📌 Director of Business Development (Comunidad de Madrid)
🏢 JDL Recruitment
📍 Comunidad de Madrid