Infrastructure Planning Manager – APAC

This dual-focus role leads regional infrastructure procurement and oversees technical site planning across all SailGP events in the Asia-Pacific region. 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 across all APAC event locations.
• Manage infrastructure suppliers end-to-end, from sourcing and appointment through physical delivery, de-rig, and close-out, including Statements of Work, 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 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.
• Act as the primary technical bridge between the APAC region and the Central Site Design team, providing accurate site data, spatial constraints, and local requirements to guide CAD development.
• Review detailed site layouts, technical architectural drawings, and build-phase plans with the Central Design team to ensure they reflect global partner requirements and local venue reality, and integrate 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 into approved site plans.
• Maintain and contribute to the definitive catalog of technical specifications for temporary event infrastructure in the APAC region, and partner with the central Infrastructure Design team to value-engineer overlay plans so chosen 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, analyse build feasibility alongside site delivery teams, and 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 including site marking out, utility checks, and ground conditions ahead of Day 1 of build
• And serve as the on-site technical authority during build and de-rig by auditing installations against engineered architectural drawings to resolve deviations prior to operational handover.
• Produce comprehensive handover packs prior to Day 1 of build, provide targeted on-site presence and remote availability throughout build and de-rig to troubleshoot supplier, contractor, and technical issues, enforce health, safety, sustainability, and risk management standards across contractors

• Ability to lead regional infrastructure procurement and commercial management.
• Ability to oversee technical site planning across all APAC events.
• Ability to act as the primary technical link between the region and the central team.
• Ability to partner with the 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.
• Ability to maintain technical specifications for temporary event infrastructure and value-engineer overlay plans.
• Ability to coordinate engineering, certification, permitting, and authority approvals for temporary infrastructure.
• Ability to enforce health, safety, sustainability, and risk management standards.
• Ability to work with Branding and Commercial teams to ensure fit, finish, and aesthetic quality.

SailGP is racing redefined and the sport's pinnacle league, 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 top athletes in iconic harbours around the world and offers the sport's largest monetary prize of $1 million, with rival national teams battling in identical supercharged F50 catamarans engineered for intense racing at speeds exceeding 60 mph/100 kph.