Asset, Configuration and Lifecycle Product Owner
The purpose of the role is to govern, plan, organise, and manage the end‑to‑end lifecycle of IT assets and configuration management processes across the organization. This includes ensuring the effective tracking, maintenance, optimisation, and strategic planning of IT assets, configurations, and their associated lifecycle stages. The Asset, Configuration, and Lifecycle Product Owner will work collaboratively with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to ensure the organization’s IT assets and configuration management processes are aligned with business needs, compliant with policies, and optimised for cost efficiency and performance.
This role will also play a key part in driving the adoption of best practices for asset and configuration management, ensuring accurate and up‑to‑date configuration management databases (CMDB), and enabling effective decision‑making through comprehensive reporting and insights. Additionally, the role will focus on lifecycle management to ensure assets are utilised effectively, replaced or retired at the right time, and aligned with the organization’s strategic goals. This is a hybrid role, based two times a week in our Guildford office.
Salary Information
Pay: Circa £80,000 per year. Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.
Responsibilities
* Governance and Management of Asset and Configuration Suppliers and Outsource Partners – Ensure third‑party suppliers deliver IT asset, configuration, and lifecycle management services in line with agreed service levels, policies, and business requirements.
* Ownership of Asset and Configuration Management Processes – Own and maintain the IT asset and configuration management processes, including the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and alignment with ITIL best practices.
* Lifecycle Management of IT Assets – Oversee the full lifecycle of IT assets, from procurement and deployment to maintenance, optimisation, and retirement, ensuring cost‑effective utilisation and alignment with organisational goals.
* Management and Remediation of Technical Debt – Identify, document, and prioritise technical debt across the IT estate, collaborating with stakeholders to develop and execute remediation plans that reduce risk, enhance system performance, and align with the organisation’s strategic objectives.
* Governance and Reporting – Develop and maintain reporting mechanisms for asset utilisation, configuration accuracy, lifecycle status, and compliance, providing actionable insights to stakeholders.
* Collaboration with IT Security and Compliance Teams – Work closely with IT Security Operations to ensure IT assets and configurations are secure, compliant with regulatory requirements, and aligned with security policies.
* Driving Innovation and Optimisation – Identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in asset and configuration management processes, leveraging automation and advanced tools to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
* Cost Management – Oversee cost‑effective management of IT assets, actively identify, assess, and address technical debt to minimise financial impact, improve operational efficiency, and align with long‑term organisational goals and budgets.
Essential Skills
* Deep understanding of infrastructure and application elimination/decommission approaches, methods and models.
* Deep understanding of asset and configuration management.
* Good understanding of IT workplace, data centre, network and telecommunications infrastructure operations both within the insurance and market generally.
* Deep understanding of outsource vendor governance and management practices.
* IT contract & licence management and negotiation desirable.
* Sound understanding of IT risk management processes.
* Management of third parties – especially offshore.
* Deep understanding of outsource vendor governance and management practices.
* Excellent understanding of Power Tools (e.g. PowerBI) and data manipulation. Ability to extract, analyse and compare data across multiple systems and generate actionable insights.
* Operating at a senior level in the IT arena within a regulated industry managing contracts and suppliers finances.
* Working closely with and influencing senior stakeholders across a large multi‑national commercial organisation.
* Extensive experience of managing IT in an outsourced service environment.
* Driving and leading technology toxicity/obsolescence removal/decommission programmes and plans in a range of disciplines (ideally both application and infrastructure).
* Dealing with IT vendors of differing sizes and ranges of IT disciplines – infrastructure, workplace and asset/configuration management.
* Extensive experience of IT Asset and Configuration Management – IT software and hardware.
* Experience designing and delivering IT Asset Management control policies and procedures.
* Experience and understanding of configuration management approaches, methods and tools (e.g. Qualys).
* Extensive experience of IT risk management processes and audit requirements.
* Extensive experience in service reporting.
* Experience of managing third party service provision – especially offshore, internal business stakeholders and parallel workstreams.
* Expertise within a multi‑stakeholder environment with a demonstrable ability to negotiate compromise and gain stakeholder buy‑in.
Desirable Skills
* Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage.
* Masters level degree in a relevant professional discipline is desirable.
* ITIL or TOGAF equivalent qualifications are desirable.
* BCS or CII qualifications are desirable.
* Data/analytics certifications desirable.
What We Will Offer You
* Flexible buy/sell holiday options.
* Hybrid working.
* Annual performance‑related bonus.
* Contributory pension scheme.
* Development days.
* Discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet.
* Retail discounts.
* Volunteering days.
Our Ways of Working
Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive – your work‑life balance is important to us.
Integrity, Fairness, Inclusion & Trust
At Allianz, we believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer. We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success. We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.
Accessible Application for All
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long‑term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role. Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.
Closing date: 31/3/2026. We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.
#J-18808-Ljbffr