Infrastructure Planning Manager

This dual-focus role is responsible for leading regional infrastructure procurement and overseeing technical site planning across all events. It acts as the primary technical link between the region and the central team, partnering closely with the central Infrastructure Design Team to ensure site layouts and technical architectural drawings meet regional operational needs, local building codes, and commercial budgets. Rather than generating CAD layouts directly, the role translates site requirements, manages regional suppliers, leads tender processes, and ensures on-site build execution and technical compliance across the Tech Site, Race Stadium, and operational zones.

• Lead competitive regional and local tender processes for temporary overlay, temporary structures, site utilities, and mechanical handling equipment (MHE), and manage infrastructure suppliers end-to-end from sourcing and appointment through physical delivery, de-rig, and close-out
• Including Statements of Work (SOWs), contracting, onboarding, performance management, subcontractor controls, insurance compliance, commercial issue resolution, and ongoing vendor relationships.
• Negotiate and manage quotes, rate cards, and multi-year Master Services Agreements (MSAs) with local and regional suppliers to leverage scale, drive value engineering, and reduce unit costs.
• Own and maintain regional infrastructure budgets, including forecasting, commitments, contingency, and variance management, ensuring all procurement and expenditure remain within approved event budgets, procurement frameworks, and financial gateways.
• Provide accurate site data, spatial constraints, and local requirements to guide CAD development, and review detailed site layouts, technical architectural drawings, and build-phase plans with the Central Design team to reflect global partner requirements and local venue reality.
• Ensure technical requirements for all functional areas—including the Tech Team, Broadcast compound, Media Centre, Hospitality, commercial activations, and other event operational, spectator, hospitality, and marine infrastructure—are fully integrated into approved site plans.
• Maintain and contribute to the definitive catalogue of technical specifications for temporary event infrastructure, and value-engineer overlay plans with the central Infrastructure Design team to ensure structures fit spatial allocations, meet local engineering and safety codes
• And align with budget targets.
• Conduct detailed reviews of structural drawings before issue to ensure branding alignment ahead of print deadlines, and analyse build feasibility with site delivery teams to verify procured infrastructure can be delivered, constructed, and de-rigged within the allocated on-site schedule.
• Coordinate engineering, certification, permitting, and authority approval requirements for temporary infrastructure, ensuring structural, fire, accessibility, wind, loading, and other technical requirements are identified, documented, and closed out prior to operational use.
• Lead pre-build site assessments and preparatory site works, serve as on-site technical authority during build and de-rig, audit installations against engineered drawings, produce handover packs, and maintain remote availability to troubleshoot supplier, contractor, and technical issues.
• Enforce health, safety, sustainability, and risk management standards across contractors, suppliers, and Local Production Agencies, and collaborate with on-site Branding and Commercial teams to ensure structural installations reflect SailGP's premium brand guidelines.

• Experience leading regional infrastructure procurement and overseeing technical site planning across all events.
• Ability to act as the primary technical link between the region and the central team.
• Experience partnering closely with a central Infrastructure Design Team to ensure site layouts and technical architectural drawings meet regional operational needs, local building codes, and commercial budgets.
• Ability to translate site requirements, manage regional suppliers, lead tender processes, and ensure on-site build execution and technical compliance across the Tech Site, Race Stadium, and operational zones.

• Targeted on-site presence as and when required, with ongoing remote availability throughout build and de-rig phases.

SailGP is racing redefined, established in 2018 and headquartered in London and New Zealand. The annual, global championship aims to Race for the Future by showcasing the power of nature and accelerating change. The fan-centric, inshore racing takes place among the sport's top athletes in some of the most iconic harbours around the world, and offers the sport's largest monetary prize of $1 million.