JOB DETAILS JOB BAND: D CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time DEPARTMENT: IT Asset Management, BBC News LOCATION: Salford, Media City – This is a hybrid role with an expectation that you would work from the office in Salford at least 4 Days a week and 1 Day can be working from home. PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £50,000 p.a. depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. PURPOSE OF THE ROLE Seeking an IT Asset Manager to be based in our set up based in Salford to manage the provision of core IT technology for a sub-division of BBC News, bringing sound IT knowledge and experience to the role. Responsible for controlling the IT spend across your designated business unit within BBC News, you will be managing to ensuring compliance with BBC policy, appropriate application of exceptions where there is valid business justification and delivering savings across the range of commodities expenditure. WHY JOIN THE TEAM BBC News provides internationally-renowned news output 24 hours a day that helps people to understand and engage with the world around them. It has teams that operate in all corners of the world, delivering breaking news, editorial analysis and long-form journalism across television, radio and digital channels. All this has been made possible by the provision and resilience of our IT services. The continuing operation of our IT services, while ensuring that our processes offer value for money, sustainability and resilience, is a mission critical objective within BBC News. Your Key Responsibilities And Impact To be responsible the lifecycle management of IT assets and the operation of key controls in your designated business unit. To be the escalation point for user’s IT problems and issues, which cannot be solved through the standard process. To ensure compliance with pan-BBC and News Group policy, and ensure that exceptions received the appropriate level of authorisation. To be accountable for IT spend within your designated business unit as well as auditing, managing and tracking assets. To be responsible for communicating BBC IT strategy and policy within your business unit To work with senior stakeholders in forecasting the IT technology needs of your business unit To be the lead approver for IT spend in your business unit Willingness to travel to London as required. Essential Criteria YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Proven experience in service delivery and management within complex, large-scale business environments. Skilled in stakeholder, colleague, and user relationship management to ensure high-quality service delivery aligned with performance targets. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a talent for quickly understanding and resolving complex issues. Demonstrated capability to re-engineer processes and practices for improved efficiency and effectiveness. Resilient under pressure, with a focus on selecting optimal solutions based on cost, risk, and timescale considerations. Technically proficient, with a strong grasp of ITIL and Service Desk technologies, and a quick learner of new systems and processes. Experienced in contractual compliance, data analytics for user experience, and effective communication of technical concepts to non-technical audiences. CP25 Disclaimer This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved. Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk Redeployment The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.