Team Leader - Asset Management Team

Hampshire County Council; United States; Hybrid; USD 59,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire County Council's Asset Management Team seeks a Team Leader to guide data-driven highway asset management across Hampshire. Lead projects, shape decisions, and drive improvements for a large local authority road network.

Based in our Winchester office with flexible home-working under our Open Workplace Policy, you will collaborate with colleagues, contractors and other authorities to deliver value and efficiency. Competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience leading projects in asset management or highways data analytics.
• Ability to collect, analyse and use data to inform business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a range of asset management projects to improve highway services.
• Identify and implement service improvements using data-driven insights.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and manage competing workloads in a dynamic environment.

Job description

Are you passionate about using data, innovation and collaboration to improve vital public services?

Are you looking for an opportunity to lead projects that make a real difference to communities across Hampshire? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

We are seeking a highly motivated Team Leader to join our Asset Management Team, a key part of the Hampshire Highways Service responsible for managing and improving one of the largest local authority highway networks in the country.

The Role:

This is a unique opportunity to play a leading role in delivering the asset management functions that underpin an efficient, sustainable and data-driven highway service. Working at the heart of strategic decision-making, you'll help shape how highway assets are managed, maintained and improved to meet local priorities and future challenges.

Hampshire County Council is responsible for managing one of the largest local authority road networks in the country. It is the most valuable physical asset that we are responsible for and is fundamental to the economic, social, and environmental wellbeing of the community.

This role is an exciting opportunity to help deliver asset management functions that are essential to the delivery of an efficient and sustainable highway service that supports our local needs and priorities.

What you'll do:

As a Team Leader you'll be responsible for developing and managing a wide range of projects and play an important role in identifying and implementing service improvements. You will be involved in developing innovative ways to collect, analyse and use data strategically that will help to inform business decisions, drive efficiencies, and improve the delivery of the highway service.

The role requires you to be a confident communicator and a dynamic problem solver. You'll need to be able to manage and prioritise competing workloads effectively, have a systematic approach to working and be comfortable working with a wide range of IT systems.

For information about the highway service and our recent projects, please visit Highways Careers.

This role offers significant variety and the opportunity to work with a wide range of stakeholders, including colleagues from across the organisation, contractors, consultants, technology providers and local authorities. Your work will directly influence how we invest in, manage and improve Hampshire's highway network., We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

We're looking for someone who is a confident communicator, an enthusiastic problem solver and an effective leader. You will be comfortable managing competing priorities, working with complex datasets and using technology to drive improvement. Above all, you will be passionate about delivering positive outcomes and helping to shape the future of highway asset management.

Hampshire County Council is recognised nationally as one of the highest performing local authorities in the UK. A modern, forward-looking local authority, it offers a supportive and collaborative working environment.

Hampshire County Council is also a flexible employer interested in making the most of your skills and offers a great work life balance. We invest in you through our internal development programmes and training and offer a competitive salary and benefits package.

The role will be based at our Winchester office, however as part of Hampshire County Council's Open Workplace Policy, the successful candidate can undertake the majority of their work at home, subject to business requirements. The team currently work in the Winchester based office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays although you are welcome to work in the office on a more regular basis if you would prefer.