European Asset Optimization Lead

Creative Technology UK; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

NEP Group Inc. is seeking a Central Asset Manager to help European business units use technical assets more efficiently and profitably.

Working within the European Central Asset Team (ECAT), the role improves asset visibility, resolves shortages, reduces external subhire and supports cross-border collaboration. Each postholder serves as the main contact for an assigned region and collaborates with local teams to balance project delivery, commercial value, and group priorities.

Qualifications

• Experience in asset management, operations, logistics, technical resource planning or a similar live-events environment.
• Working knowledge of professional video, audio, lighting, rigging or related technical equipment.
• Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to compare cost, margin and utilisation options.
• Analytical, organised and confident solving problems in a fast-moving environment.
• Able to influence and collaborate across teams, countries and cultures.
• Confident using rental management systems, reporting tools and Microsoft Office.
• Clear written and verbal English; additional European languages are an advantage.
• Willing and able to travel across Europe when required.

Responsibilities

• Help business units secure equipment for projects, using internal assets before external subhire.
• Review project demand, availability and departure dates to identify shortages and priorities.
• Coordinate short-term and cross-border equipment movements with local asset teams.
• Assist with recommendations on long term equipment relocation to the ECAM.
• Assess options using availability, transport cost, utilisation, margin and delivery requirements.
• Challenge subhire requests, compare internal and external options, and record savings or cost avoidance.
• Support supplier reviews and maintain the preferred European supplier list.
• Keep up to date with market and technical developments to assist in purchase recommendations
• Promote accurate use of rental systems and agreed European data standards.
• Monitor incomplete or inconsistent project and asset information and drive corrective action.
• Identify recurring issues, utilisation opportunities and potential strategic asset redeployment.
• Maintain clear records and provide concise operational reporting and recommendations to the ECAM.
• Build trusted relationships across Operations, Technical, Commercial, Project and Asset teams.
• Share best practice and support new systems, workflows and agreed ways of working across Europe.

Skills

Asset management

Logistics

Live-events knowledge

Data quality

MS Office

Rental systems

Tools

Rental management systems

Reporting tools

Job description

NEP Group Inc. is seeking a Central Asset Manager to help European business units use technical assets more efficiently and profitably.

Working within the European Central Asset Team (ECAT), the role improves asset visibility, resolves shortages, reduces external subhire and supports cross-border collaboration. Each postholder serves as the main contact for an assigned region and collaborates with local teams to balance project delivery, commercial value, and group priorities.