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BBC News IT Asset Manager

Job Requisition ID: 32738
Job Closing Date: 9 November 2025
Salford, MAN, GBR, M50 2QH
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.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• 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.

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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.
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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.
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Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
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