Senior Planning Manager – Data Centre Infrastructure
Locations – Frankfurt | Geneva | Zurich
Role Summary
As Senior Planning Manager within our Planning & Scheduling department, you will lead planning strategy across STACK Infrastructure's mission-critical data centre developments, providing programme leadership from early development through construction and handover. You will own a portfolio of integrated master schedules, challenge program assumptions, identify risks and opportunity, and provide trusted advice to project and executive stakeholders. This is an opportunity to influence delivery across a growing European portfolio while driving planning excellence and governance.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, own and maintain a portfolio of Integrated Master Schedules across complex data centre programmes.
- Lead schedule workshops with internal teams, consultants and contractors.
- Provide strategic programme analysis, identifying schedule risks, opportunities and recovery plans.
- Manage external planning consultants and ensure high-quality schedule outputs.
- Review contractor programmes for compliance, logic, critical path and contractual requirements.
- Support commercial discussions relating to extensions of time, variations and schedule impacts.
- Monitor portfolio milestones and provide clear reporting to senior stakeholders.
- Drive continuous improvement of planning processes, standards and governance.
- Collaborate across Development, Design, Delivery and Commercial teams to achieve programme objectives.
What You'll Bring
- Extensive construction planning experience on complex infrastructure or mission-critical projects.
- Advanced Primavera P6 and/or Oracle Primavera Cloud expertise.
- Strong understanding of Critical Path Method (CPM), Earned Value Management and integrated scheduling.
- Commercial and contractual awareness, ideally including FIDIC environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to influence senior leaders through clear programme insight and data-driven recommendations.
- Degree in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent experience.
What We Offer
- Work on critical digital infrastructure supporting some of the world's most advanced data centre environments.
- Build your career within a fast-growing European platform with opportunities for development and progression.
- Competitive compensation and benefits designed to support you professionally and personally.
About STACK Infrastructure
STACK is a proven, trusted partner for the world's most innovative companies, designing, developing and operating sustainable global digital infrastructure. Backed by reliable delivery and development expertise, STACK brings speed, scale, certainty and responsibility to a rapidly evolving digital infrastructure landscape.
Skills Required
- Extensive construction planning experience on complex infrastructure or mission-critical projects.
- Advanced Primavera P6 and/or Oracle Primavera Cloud expertise.
- Strong understanding of Critical Path Method (CPM), Earned Value Management and integrated scheduling.
- Commercial and contractual awareness, ideally including FIDIC environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to influence senior leaders through clear programme insight and data-driven recommendations.
- Degree in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent experience.
Stack Infrastructure Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stack Infrastructure and has not been reviewed or approved by Stack Infrastructure.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is framed as competitive across a range of roles, with multiple examples of higher compensation in sales, technical, construction, and leadership positions. Pay is also described as “pretty good,” and compensation is presented as a positive part of the overall employment experience.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is positioned as comprehensive, with medical, dental, vision, life/disability, and mental-health/EAP elements repeatedly referenced. HSA/FSA options and mentions of employer HSA contributions reinforce the view that health coverage is a meaningful part of the package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are consistently described as including a 401(k), with references to an employer match and the plan being viewed as fair or generous. This contributes to the perception of a solid total-rewards package beyond base pay.
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What We Do
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE is a leading data center company built from the ground up to address the full stack of client critical infrastructure needs, today and into the future. The company delivers a comprehensive suite of wholesale, colocation, build-to-suit, and powered shell solutions in six markets.
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