Job Description - Assistant Asset Strategy Manager (047009)
Organisation
TFL ENGINEERING
Job
Position Type - Full Time
Assistant Asset Strategy Manager 047009
Salary: Payband 2/ circa £38k + TfL Benefits
Contract Type:TfL
Location: Southwark / Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
Do you like your work to develop and stretch you? Do you want to work across Transport for London’s (TfL) vast and complex asset base to address some of London's biggest challenges? If so, we have vacancies in our TfL Asset Strategy team that could be for you!
We are currently recruiting Assistant Asset Strategy Managers to analyse and assess some of TfL's most important asset challenges. We ensure the c.£1bn of investment we put into our assets every year is being done in a planned, conscious, and informed way. We operate flexibly, through a highly capable and supportive team that can turn their collective 'hand' to challenges and are known for producing high quality outputs.
The work in our team is varied, exciting and high profile; your work could include looking at long term trends in asset information, developing asset intervention plans, or planning future improvements.
You'll need to bring drive and an ability to understand and plan the work required to complete tasks. You'll want to make things better, be comfortable working at pace and confident involving stakeholders in decision making. In doing so we will support you and be willing to provide guidance as required.
This team focuses on the development and implementation of efficient long-term strategies and investment plans for TfL assets, balancing the needs of the assets against their allocated budget. These are complex and high-profile assets that require significant investment and a mature approach to asset management. We initiate projects, analyse a lot of data and impacts of investment in order to justify spend and prioritise the capital work bank and investment plans.
Key Accountabilities
* Support the development of business plans, asset strategies and asset plans (short and long term), considering a wide range of factors including cost, risk, performance and sustainability.
* Work with stakeholders to transform strategies into prioritised project workbanks for delivery.
* Support on the development of all capital and operational expenditure throughout the asset lifecycle, or lead discrete work packages as part of this process.
* Develop problem statements to address asset concerns, project initiation documents and lead on early project lifecycle activity prior to handover to Sponsorship.
* Carry out high quality asset data analysis (e.g. cost, condition, risk) to provide material for presentations, reports and strategies that support and inform conclusions and recommendations.
* Support the development of up-keep of asset lifecycle and degradation models to inform asset lifecycle decisions.
* Support the continuous improvement of asset management processes and approaches.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience (Essential, unless stated Desirable)
Skills
* Good written, verbal and presentation skills.
* Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively across teams as required.
* Proactive and inquisitive with good stakeholder management skills.
* Able to support multiple workstreams simultaneously, working to deadlines.
* Data analysis and modelling skills.
Knowledge
* Graduate in a relevant subject (or equivalent work experience in a strategic or transport role).
* Understand the principles of Asset Management (Desirable).
* Understand the challenges that asset intensive organisations face (transport and/or utility companies) (Desirable).
* Institute of Asset Management (IAM) Certificate qualification or willingness to obtain.
Experience
* Experience of undertaking data analysis, modelling and presenting findings in a simple manner.
* Experience of interpreting different information sources and communicating them effectively.
* Experience in the asset management discipline and/or supporting the development of asset strategies, plans and prioritised work programmes (Desirable).
We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.
Application Process
Think carefully about how the advert relates to your experience and cover this in your CV and cover letter. PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images. Use the latter to tell us how your existing skills, knowledge and experience match the description above as shortlisting is carried out on the basis of how well you meet the criteria for the role.
The closing date for applications is Wednesday 26th March 2025 @ 23.59pm.
Eligibility – Internal Employees
Probation
In line with our Resourcing Policy (Feb 2014), internal employees are required to complete their probationary period before applying for internal TfL positions. Please ensure you have successfully completed your probation before submitting an application for this role, otherwise your application may be withdrawn.
NPL Applications
Applications to internally advertised roles can only be accepted from temporary workers who are on PAYE terms via agency, or PAYE via Umbrella Companies. Temporary workers who are paid through their own limited companies are not covered by the Agency Worker Regulations and are ineligible to apply.
Benefits (External only)
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:
* Final salary pension scheme.
* Free travel for you on the TfL network.
* Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket.
* 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays.
* TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow.
* Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme.
* Retail, health, leisure and travel offers.
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