Asset Management SME

About the role

We are seeking an Asset Management Subject Matter Expert to lead telecom asset identification and lifecycle management in Damascus, Syria. The role will serve as the technical authority for defining standards, governing data, and ensuring audit‑ready asset information across the network.

Key responsibilities

• Define and enforce asset management standards, including mandatory attributes, naming conventions, tagging, serial/model capture, location hierarchy, evidence requirements, and exception handling.
• Provide technical guidance for classification of telecom and datacenter equipment such as chassis, shelves, cards, modules, optics, power systems, racks, and related infrastructure.
• Lead quality assurance and control for asset surveys through sampling, peer validation, discrepancy analysis, and corrective‑action tracking.
• Coordinate with field survey teams, site operations, engineering, inventory specialists, asset owners, vendors, procurement, finance, and operations stakeholders.
• Define and maintain reconciliation logic between physical survey findings, CMDB records, inventory databases, ERP asset registers, purchase records, and operational systems.
• Support lifecycle governance processes including asset creation, movement, assignment, transfer, decommissioning, retirement, disposal, and evidence retention.
• Prepare and monitor KPIs, exception and reconciliation reports, data‑quality dashboards, and continuous‑improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with company governance standards, site regulations, safety requirements, and operational procedures.
• Support audit activities and provide technical clarification on asset records, discrepancies, and lifecycle documentation.
• Drive continuous improvement in asset governance, reconciliation accuracy, operational efficiency, and data‑quality management.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent.
• 8–12+ years of experience in telecom asset management, network audit, physical inventory management, CMDB administration, ITAM, DCIM, OSS inventory systems, or infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Proven expertise in defining asset data requirements and governance processes.
• Experience coordinating cross‑functional teams and managing large‑scale asset surveys.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.

Required skills

• Asset Management standards and governance
• CMDB administration
• IT Asset Management (ITAM)
• Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
• OSS inventory systems
• Telecom equipment identification and classification
• Network audit and physical inventory management
• Lifecycle governance processes