Director / Senior Director Investment - Data Centres

4 days ago

Singapore ESR Group Full time

This is a senior hands-on role in the APAC data centre investment team, responsible for executing and expanding our data centre platform. The position combines leadership and client-facing responsibility with deep individual contribution in underwriting, acquisitions, portfolio management, and stakeholder management.

This is a highly active investment role that requires a strong work ethic, rigorous analysis, and willingness to be accountable for results.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Work in collaboration with ESR country teams to lead and execute data centre land acquisitions and development site transactions across APAC
- Direct high-quality underwriting of all new and existing investments, ensuring robust financial modeling and sound commercial assumptions
- When required, act as ESR Data Centre Team’s representative for key investment matters with investors, bankers, JV partners, and senior internal stakeholders ensuring clear and consistent communication
- Oversee handover of pre-acquisition cash flow forecasts to asset/fund managers in order to prepare initial business plans and budgets
- Support senior management to drive expansion of the data centre platform, including AUM growth, new product development, and fee revenue
- Manage interactions and cross-functional projects with internal ESR teams, including Fund Management, in-country teams, Operations, Legal, and Finance
- Identify and prioritize research needs on real estate and data centre markets across APAC
- Ensure detailed transaction reviews with internal and external legal counsel, managing key deal risks and documentation
- Be prepared to take on both strategic and tactical work, from high-level negotiations to detailed underwriting and analysis
- Contribute to ESG and sustainability considerations across investment decisions, aligning with platform-wide objectives.
- Support the preparation of investment committee materials and internal approval documentation with precision and clarity

**Requirements**:

- Possess a Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum 10 years of experience and data center real estate acquisition background as a developer, operator, and/or investor within Asia Pacific
- Exceptional financial modeling skills in Excel, with ability to build, audit, and critique detailed cash flow models.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of work, maintain attention to detail, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Self-starter mindset: willing to “roll up sleeves” to do the work personally, while also guiding and reviewing team deliverables
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and communication skills, able to manage senior stakeholders both internally and externally
- Experience managing investor, lender, and/or JV partner relationships
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Fluency in English is required; knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, or Korean is an advantage but not required

**Additional Qualifiers**:

- Must demonstrate a history of hands-on execution, not just high-level oversight
- Willingness to take responsibility for final work product and mentor more junior staff to raise the team’s technical standard
- Capable of managing competing priorities with mínimal direction
- Comfort working in an entrepreneurial environment
- Passion for digital infrastructure and long-term investment strategy

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