Asset Management Lead
| Company: | ISS Facilities Services |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 2DA |
| Working pattern: | On-site |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 20 Oct 2026 |
| Closing date: | 19 Nov 2026 |
Summary
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
We are 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).
Job Description
Working at both strategic and operational levels, you will oversee the contract's asset management approach while maintaining visibility of day-to-day activities.
You will lead a small team responsible for asset data management and CAFM administration, ensuring asset-related decisions are evidence-based, risk-informed, and support long-term business and client objectives.
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.
Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications
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.
Excellent analytical, communication and reporting skills.
The Company
ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.
Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.
We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #Becomewhoyouwant, #Bepartofsomethingbigger,
#aplacetobeyou,
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ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.
ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.
We are proud to be a Gold Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) award holder and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, recognising our commitment to supporting veterans, reservists, and military families. Through our Joint Forces Programme, we provide mentoring and support to members of the Armed Forces community and their spouses as they transition into civilian careers.
We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.
Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.
If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing resourcing.team@uk.issworld.com
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