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# Sr Manager Regional Operations (Data Center)

- **Company:** CBRE Group
- **Location:** Waco, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Data Analysis, Microsoft Outlook, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems, Data Centers, Data Cleansing, Data Integrity, Data Center Infrastructure Management (CIM), Tools for Reporting
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/FF6C69F18BFC45BAA0F324D786B099D8/job/

## About the Role

* Education & Experience: Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5-8 years of relevant operations management experience, ideally within data centers, critical infrastructure portfolios, telecom, or large industrial real estate. A combination of experience and education will be considered.
 * Portfolio Operations Mastery: Proven experience in staffing, technical selection, regional training, performance auditing, and operational budget management.
 * Critical Communication: Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive, highly complicated, and difficult information, convey strict performance expectations to multi-site teams, and manage high-stakes business problems.
 * Strategic Leadership: Strong leadership skills to motivate regional teams to achieve broad operational and financial targets across multiple job disciplines.
 * Tools & Analytics: In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products (Advanced Excel, Word, Outlook) and comfort reviewing enterprise ERP, data center infrastructure management (DCIM), or CMMS reporting tools.
 * Mindset: Extensive organizational skills combined with an advanced, inquisitive mindset focused on process optimization.

Disclaimers:

*Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

## Description

As a CBRE Operations Management Senior Manager, you will oversee the business operations, governance, and financial performance for a large region or a high-profile data center client portfolio. This job is part of the Operations Management job function. You will coordinate staff functions, regional compliance, and cross-functional operations to support the organization's mission-critical goals, ensuring high-availability infrastructure strategy aligns with business performance.

What You'll Do

 * Regional & Technical Team Leadership: Provide formal supervision, mentoring, and performance coaching to a regional team of operations professionals. Oversee recruiting, hiring, and technical cross-training schedules to ensure continuous operations support.
 * Financial & Portfolio Metrics: Prepare complex reports for data center revenue, critical environments operational expenses (OpEx/CapEx), and business metrics. Direct the monthly forecasting process for the data center client or region, delivering strategic recommendations to improve financial efficiency.
 * Compliance & Critical Governance: Guarantee all regional sites and teams adhere strictly to company policy, business/professional licensing, data center industry regulations, real estate law, and state/federal environmental or energy guidelines.
 * Data Integrity & Systems Management: Identify approaches to data clean-up and governance when operational or facility management tracking issues are identified.
 * Operational \"Best Practices\": Partner with national technical service teams to identify, scale, and implement organizational best practices across the data center portfolio.
 * Process Development: Develop, approve, and execute operational training programs, standard operating business processes, and technical system training programs prior to regional distribution.
 * Cross-Discipline Integration: Apply a broad knowledge of data center business landscapes to integrate operations smoothly with critical facility engineering, IT hardware deployment, and client stakeholder groups.
 * Complex Problem Solving: Identify and solve highly complex technical and operational business problems, recognizing how regional choices impact the broader critical environments department.
 * Continuous Improvement: Improve and optimize existing methods, operational processes, and SLAs within the data center management discipline.
 * CBRE RISE Values: Lead by example and model behaviors consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence internal teams and external clients to adopt new processes while working within departmental plans.