Asset Manager

Vercity; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vercity is seeking an experienced Asset Manager to lead lifecycle investment planning across a major NHS estate, ensuring safety, compliance and long-term asset performance. You will work across King's Mill, Mansfield Community and Newark Hospitals, translating asset data into practical investment strategies and delivering robust programmes that protect value.

You will manage a diverse portfolio of projects from concept to handover, challenge financial and contractual proposals for value for

Qualifications

• Significant experience in asset management, engineering, building surveying, construction or facilities management.
• Experience delivering asset and lifecycle programmes within regulated environments.
• Ability to interpret asset data, surveys, compliance requirements, costs and risk information.

Responsibilities

• Lead lifecycle investment planning and delivery across a major healthcare estate.
• Manage a portfolio of lifecycle, variation, rectification and small works projects from concept to handover.
• Translate asset data and surveys into practical investment strategies and work programmes.
• Provide robust technical, commercial and contractual challenge to proposals to drive value for money.
• Oversee surveys, appraisals, designs and assurance activities aligned to business objectives.
• Monitor programme performance, budgets, risks and approvals with clear reporting to senior leaders.
• Ensure compliant handover with certification, asset information, O&M manuals and CAFM updates.
• Build relationships with NHS Trust stakeholders, contractors and advisors.

Skills

Asset management

Engineering

Building surveying

Facilities management

Education

RICS

CIOB

IWFM

IET

APM

PRINCE2

IOSH

NEBOSH

Tools

CAFM systems

Job description

We're looking for an experienced and commercially minded Asset Manager to play a pivotal role in protecting and enhancing a major acute healthcare estate. Working across King's Mill, Mansfield Community and Newark Hospitals, you'll lead the planning and delivery of asset investment programmes while ensuring compliance, value, and long-term asset performance.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the development and delivery of lifecycle investment plans, ensuring assets remain safe, compliant, efficient, and fit for purpose throughout their lifecycle.
• Manage a varied portfolio of lifecycle, variation, rectification, and small works projects from concept through to successful completion and handover.
• Translate asset data, condition surveys, contractual obligations, and operational priorities into practical investment strategies and deliverable work programmes.
• Provide robust technical, commercial, and contractual challenge to contractor, consultant, and service provider proposals, driving value for money and effective risk management.
• Oversee surveys, technical investigations, option appraisals, designs, and assurance activities, ensuring decisions are evidence-based and aligned to business objectives.
• Monitor programme performance, budgets, risks, dependencies, and approvals, providing clear reporting and recommendations to senior leaders and governance boards.
• Ensure all completed projects achieve a fully compliant handover, including certification, asset information, O&M manuals, warranties, drawings, and CAFM updates.
• Build strong relationships with NHS Trust stakeholders, FM providers, contractors, and advisors, leading collaborative problem-solving while safeguarding Project Co's contractual interests.

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience in asset management, engineering, building surveying, construction, facilities management, or a similar technical environment.
• Proven success delivering complex asset, lifecycle, maintenance, capital works, or infrastructure programmes within a regulated environment.
• Strong technical capability, with the ability to interpret surveys, asset data, designs, programmes, compliance requirements, costs, and risk information.
• Demonstrable commercial awareness and experience challenging scope, costs, contractual obligations, change control, and project assumptions.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage at senior leadership level and present clear recommendations.
• Relevant degree, professional qualification, or equivalent experience. Healthcare, PFI/PPP, RICS, CIOB, IWFM, IET, APM, PRINCE2, IOSH, or NEBOSH qualifications would be advantageous.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a critical healthcare estate and influence how millions of pounds of asset investment is planned and delivered. You'll work with senior stakeholders across the NHS and private sector, contribute to strategic decision-making, and play a key role in ensuring hospital environments remain safe, compliant, and effective for the communities they serve.

For nearly 30 years Vercity has been the UK's leading provider of Asset and Infrastructure projects in the public sector, and an MSA leader in the PFI space. We are passionate about managing infrastructure to improve the lives of users and create a positive legacy in their communities. And that extends to offering great opportunities and environments for our people to thrive. Our values are:Making a difference through Integrity, Collaboration and Professionalism- and we apply and work to them in every project and every team.