Asset Management Lead at Omni RMS, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Asset Management Lead

Contract: Business & Industry
Location: Stevenage, SG1 2DA (Hybrid, ideally Stevenage-based, with other offices also considered)
Hours of work: 40
Contract Type: Permanent

Our client, a leading provider of facilities services in the UK, is seeking an experienced Asset Management Lead to provide strategic leadership for asset management across a major contract, ensuring alignment with an ISO 55001-aligned asset management system.

Reporting to the Key Account Director, you will act as the contract's asset management authority, translating organisational asset management policy into a clear and effective Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP).

Working across both strategic and operational levels, you will oversee the contract's asset management approach while maintaining visibility of day-to-day activities. You will play a key role in ensuring asset-related decisions are evidence-based, risk-informed, and aligned with long-term business and client objectives.

Leading a small team responsible for asset data management and CAFM administration, you will drive best practice in asset management, support investment planning, and ensure the accuracy and integrity of asset information across the contract.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, own and maintain the contract's Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP), ensuring alignment with organisational asset management policy and ISO 55001 requirements.
• Define and agree asset management objectives and establish plans to achieve them.
• Drive continual improvement towards ISO 55001 asset management best practice and compliance.
• Apply a risk-based decision-making framework across the asset portfolio, supporting maintenance, renewal and investment decisions.
• Lead the contract approach to asset criticality, probability of failure and consequence of failure assessments.
• Develop whole-life cost plans for major asset groups, balancing maintenance, renewal and replacement strategies.
• Produce asset management analysis and reporting to support capital planning and investment decision-making.
• Lead and develop the operational asset data and CAFM administration team, ensuring asset register accuracy and effective day-to-day management.

Person Specification

• Proven experience operating at a strategic level within asset management, ideally within an ISO 55001-aligned environment.
• Demonstrable experience developing and maintaining Strategic Asset Management Plans (SAMPs) and setting asset management objectives.
• Strong working knowledge of risk-based asset management methodologies, including probability and consequence of failure, criticality assessments and lifecycle planning.
• Experience applying whole-life costing principles to support asset investment and renewal decisions.
• Ability to interpret asset and condition data and translate findings into clear, decision-ready reports and recommendations.
• Experience supporting client capital planning processes through evidence-based asset management insights.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently with clients and senior leaders.
• Experience leading and developing teams responsible for asset information, asset registers and CAFM administration.