Asset Strategy Manager

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there's something for everyone to get stuck into. And that's where you come in.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

LR Grade: 9

Location: Waterloo / Palestra

Working pattern: Full time

Our Opportunity

Our Services Management team are looking to appoint an Asset Strategy Manager to look after UK Connect Services portfolio. As an Asset Strategy Manager, you will lead the strategic management of asset performance and transition planning across all UK Services contracts, with a primary focus on the Connect Services programme. This role holder will be responsible for driving lifecycle optimisation, data integrity, and transition readiness while supporting the organisation's journey toward ISO 55001 alignment and ensuring service continuity and strategic alignment with client expectations. The role also acts as a key internal interface, fostering strong relationships across teams to ensure asset management priorities are understood, supported, and embedded throughout the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of Asset Management Strategies and Annual Plans across UK Services contracts, with specific focus on the TfL Connect contract.
• Drive improvements in the quality, accuracy, and completeness of asset data across all systems and platforms, working collaboratively with clients and internal teams to coordinate activities and resources that deliver successful outcomes and high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Ensure robust data management processes are in place and enforced, with regular reviews to assess effectiveness and adapt to evolving systems.
• Support the evolution of the existing Asset Management Framework, ensuring alignment with ISO 55001 principles and contributing to the organisation's readiness for future certification.
• Ensure compliance with client specific asset policies, including TfL's Asset Management Strategy and associated standards.
• Oversee the integrity and maintenance of asset registers, including cable and software inventories, and spares holdings, ensuring data is reliable and auditable.
• Lead Supportability Engineering activities, including RAMT, LSA, FMECA, LoR, spares modelling, obsolescence forecasting, whole life cost analysis, in service performance, and useful life assessments, enabling data driven decision making.
• Promote continuous improvement in maintenance regimes, fault analysis, and performance reporting, ensuring lessons learned are embedded across contracts.
• Own all asset data aspects of the Exit Plan and Exit Management Programme for Connect Services, including data migration, asset handover, and structured knowledge transfer.
• Ensure readiness for re tendering and support potential replacement contractors with comprehensive and structured exit information.
• Identify and implement opportunities to harmonise asset and transition practices across UK contracts, enabling consistency and scalability.
• Support the mobilisation and demobilisation of services, including contract start up and close out activities.
• Act as the Asset Management SME, providing strategic input into bids, contract renewals, and service transformation initiatives.
• Represent UK Services in client forums, governance reviews, and strategic planning sessions, ensuring asset management priorities are clearly communicated and aligned with client expectations.
• Act as a key relationship manager across internal teams, ensuring effective collaboration between asset, data, and operational stakeholders.
• Provide input into tooling decisions, ensuring new systems meet operational needs and data efficiency requirements, and that potential impacts are clearly communicated.

Technical Skills and Experience

• Proven leadership in asset management and contract transition within transport, infrastructure, or services.
• Experience operating to ISO 55000 (Asset Management) framework.
• Strong understanding of lifecycle planning, obsolescence, and maintenance strategies.
• Experience managing complex contractual deliverables and client relationships.
• Strong understanding of asset management systems.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Human Skills

• Experience of working using own initiative and within a team environment.
• Self motivated and self aware.
• Problem solving skills.
• Self disciplined.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong written skills for documentation and reporting.

What We Can Offer

We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you with the ability to flex your start and finish times where our customer needs are covered, where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone

We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.