Senior Program Manager, Equinix
Global Physical Security Vendors
Digital infrastructure company
Job no longer available
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working within the security industry
- Technology hardware and software functional requirement collection
- Program, Project, and/or Portfolio management in a large-scale company
- Experience working with category, procurement, and vendor management teams, or work in that function
- Educated to degree level in physical security systems, data centers, engineering, or business management, or with equivalent work experience
- 5+ years’ experience in product strategy , or business development at a data center or technology company preferred
- Demonstrated ability to derive insights via quantitative and qualitative analysis and formulate and test hypotheses by diving deep into the data
- Strong experience managing and influencing stakeholders across different functional groups
- Ability to provide thought leadership, think strategically and effectively communicate vision and influence
What the job involves
- The Senior Program Manager, Global Physical Security Vendors leads security equipment and vendor strategy related to portfolio, value creation and financial strategy, and key business transformation priorities
- This role supports key activities and deliverables within the multi-year strategic planning
- The Senior Program Manager, Global Physical Security Vendors leads competitive intelligence and deep dive analysis into market and technology developments
- The role partners closely with finance, legal, and procurement teams to ensure that security strategies align with company goals
- Collaborates with regional and cross-functional counterparts to address and resolve customer and operational issues
- Plans and manages budgets, maintains infrastructure, supports customer escalations, and applies industry knowledge and best practices
- The Senior Program Manager, Global Physical Security Vendors facilitates and maintain relationships between Equinix and vendors/partners, creating standards for the vendors, and finding the best available vendors
- This role cultivates and maintains relationships with vendors, representing Equinix within the security community
- Finding qualified vendors: Researching and selecting vendors to meet the organization's needs
- Ensuring quality: Setting work standards and evaluating vendor performance
- Managing delivery: Ensuring resources are delivered on time
- Resolving issues: Keeping accurate documentation and streamlining processes
- Build partnerships: vendors are a critical part of our value stream, quality relationships are key
- Security catalog management: own, manage, and maintain the security catalog of equipment, manufacturers, services, and vendors
- Sourcing: identify the potential source(s) of an offering, evaluating the choice(s), and choosing the best fit for your organization
- Provides strategic guidance and direction to drive team results
- Set the vision, establish direction, communicate with the team, and ensure alignment
- Provide coaching and mentoring
- Live the Magic of Equinix and set the example for the team
- Provide support to regional teams, including working with counterparts
- Support internal and external communications. Ensure relevant stakeholders are engaged and kept informed of the progress and status of initiatives
- Effectively communicate and deliver data-driven presentations, tailored to each audience
- Cascade key business information to the team
- Assists with root cause analysis and incident resolution of physical security systems
- Collaborate with team, Field Operations, and regional counterparts to analyze resource, system, license, supplier, project and maintenance requirements
- Plan, implement, and manage OPEX and CAPEX budgets, meeting Equinix KPI's and OKR's for budget vs. actuals
- Build and maintain relationships with key suppliers to support the needs of the business; holding them to the highest standards
- Responsible for prioritizing, planning, tracking, managing, and measuring team output and productivity
- Communicate status to key stakeholders and regional leadership
- Provide security systems support for data center operations, including resolution of sophisticated issues and complex installation efforts
- Respond to customer RFP’s and RFI’s
- Ensure work is completed to Equinix's standards, and meets operational KPI's and OKR's
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Dec 1999
$280m
LATE VC
Total funding: $280m
Company benefits
- Equinix employees receive excellent health care and counseling plans that vary by country to ensure the well-being of you and your family. We offer paid vacations and holidays and encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
- Spending time with your loved ones and taking care of your family are important. Equinix provides a range of country-specific programs that ensure you have the resources needed to thrive and manage your family’s needs
- Equinix offers different programs to help you build your financial security, make charitable donations and seek additional education. In many countries we also offer a flexible employee stock purchase plan
Company values
- Seek something bigger - Come drive meaningful change as part of the world’s trusted, leading digital infrastructure company. Together, our work enables innovation that enriches our work, life and planet
- Challenge assumptions - Bring your unique perspectives and contributions to help us make bold decisions, become aware of biases and remove any barriers that still exist
- Want to unlock your potential - Achieve, learn, adapt and be comfortable building a fulfilling career. We are here to help you unlock your potential
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Articles
Leadership
Charles Meyers
(President & CEO (Not Founder))Former Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton, President and COO at BellSouth.net, and VP of Business and Corp Development at Internet Security Systems. Before becoming CEO of Equinix, they were a Senior Technology Executive and Fitness Entrepreneur at Life Restorations LLC and Group President of Messaging and Mobile Media at VeriSign.
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