Senior Vice President, Enterprise Enablement

Senior Vice President, Enterprise Enablement

QTS Data Centers is proud to stand at the forefront of today's dynamic digital transformation. Our world-class data centers empower our customers' most strategic growth initiatives, positioning us as a global leader in digital infrastructure. As AI and cloud technologies fuel the demand for increased speed, capacity, and innovation, QTS has emerged as the global digital infrastructure leader. We are committed to connecting the globe for good. Driven by purpose and a spirit of innovation, we design, build, and operate some of the most advanced data centers worldwide. In addition to our cutting-edge technology, we are dedicated to sustainability, incorporating renewable energy solutions to minimize our environmental footprint and drive meaningful impact. As a proud portfolio company of Blackstone, QTS is uniquely positioned to achieve ambitious growth and innovation goals.

At QTS, we are Powered by People. Our team members are the cornerstone of our culture, innovation, and growth. They are mission-driven, resourceful, and committed to making a positive impact in the communities where we live and work. Together, we're achieving remarkable things and shaping the future of digital infrastructure.

And we'd like to invite you to join us.

In addition to a variety of benefit packages, QTS goes above and beyond for our employees:

• Roth and Traditional 401(k) matching contributions with immediate vesting
• Every employee is bonus or commission eligible
• Generous PTO, Paid Volunteer Days Plus Floating Holidays
• Stock Purchase Plan (SPP)
• 11 paid Holidays Annually/Holiday compensation when worked
• Pet and Legal Insurance
• Q-Rest Sabbatical Program
• Q-Anniversary Service Award Program
• Parental Leave for primary and secondary caregivers
• Military Benefits Package
• QTS Charitable Matching Gift Program
• QTS Scholarship for Employee Dependents
• QTS Crisis Fund
• Wellness Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

The Senior Vice President, Enterprise Enablement will build, from a near blank slate, the enterprise capability for transformational change by designing, launching, and owning the delivery and adoption model that defines how initiatives are triaged, prioritized, governed, enabled, and adopted. You enjoy leading and developing a high performing team of program and change professionals, set standards and expectations, coach and allocate resources, and build capabilities to deliver outcomes at scale.

Serving as the central coordination point for transformation and partnering with senior leaders and cross functional teams, you will align initiatives with strategy, capacity, technology and decision timelines. In this role, you will have the opportunity to partner with business process owners, IT, and other departments to align initiatives with enterprise priorities. The mandate is to create a single transformation engine that chooses what matters most, sequences it intelligently, and sustains adoption to deliver measurable value at scale.

Develop and implement a robust operating model, providing a structured framework for coordinating cross functional initiatives that emphasizes the advancement of technology.

• Lead the design, operation of and own the continuous evolution of the enterprise delivery and enablement model, ensuring initiatives are evaluated, governed, sequenced, and supported consistently across the growing and scaling organization.
• Define and maintain standard governance practices and delivery artifacts to ensure initiatives are executed with discipline, transparency, and consistency.
• Establish and lead communication plans and teams to drive proper decision making, escalation paths, accountability, timeliness, and resolution.
• Manage the intake and prioritization process across programs, including oversight of inventory, and projects, establish standardized enterprise scoring criteria, value, risk, capacity, compliance, and operate a clear approval workflow.
• Operate the enterprise initiative portfolio, providing visibility into priorities, dependencies, risks, capacity, and sequencing.
• Establish enterprise standards and governance for initiative delivery and change enablement, accountable for consistent adoption planning, execution, and readiness across initiatives.
• Establish, deploy, and enforce standardized project management practices to ensure efficient tracking of benefits, dependencies, and progress.
• Communicate, train, and embed new Enterprise Transformation processes across functions, ensuring alignment to governance expectations.
• Establish clear adoption readiness criteria and ensure initiatives meet readiness thresholds prior to major milestones and go live.
• Lead the enterprise change management and enablement capability through management of a team of Change Partners, ensuring initiatives have clear adoption strategies, stakeholder engagement, training, and readiness plans.
• Deploy transformation dashboards to track progress, dependencies, KPIs, risks, and value realization in a centralized, single source of truth.
• Establish and run enterprise level operating and executive review cadences that surface progress, risks, dependencies, and adoption readiness for leadership decision making.
• Launch monthly operational reviews and quarterly executive reviews with standard agendas and escalation paths.
• Ability to travel on average 25% of the time, building in-person connections and developing strong relationships with stakeholders.

Bachelor's degree in business administration, Management, Information Systems, or related field, or previous equivalent experience. Fifteen or more years of experience leading enterprise level delivery, transformation, or enablement efforts across multiple business functions. Seven or more years of people leadership experience building and developing high performing teams. Experience operating portfolio-level intake, prioritization, and governance processes. Experience operating with a strong executive presence with the ability to influence and align senior leaders without direct authority.

Experience in the real estate development industry is preferred, particularly within large scale, capital intensive, or multi-market environments. Proven leadership in enterprise change enablement and driving adoption of cross functional initiatives. Comfort operating in ambiguity with demonstrated ability to build structure, frameworks, and operating models from scratch, reflecting that Enterprise Transformation is a new capability. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and scaling enterprise delivery or operating models. Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive complex initiatives to successful completion.