Digital Asset Management Team Leader

Job description

About the Role

The Digital Asset Management (DAM) Team Leader is responsible for the day-to-day operational delivery of digital asset management services across the Press.

The role leads and manages a team of Digital Asset Specialists, ensuring consistent, efficient execution of DAM processes, standards, and workflows. It is accountable for team performance, workload management, process adherence, quality control, and service reliability, ensuring stakeholders receive effective and timely DAM support. The role also ensures that digital assets and associated metadata are governed throughout their lifecycle, from creation and classification through to storage, retrieval, retention, and appropriate disposal, in line with organisational policies, regulatory requirements, and best practice in information governance.

Working closely with the Head of Asset Management, the role implements agreed policies, governance frameworks and system changes, feeding back operational insights, risks and improvement opportunities while maintaining stable business operations.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing a team.
• Proven experience managing digital asset management workflows within a publishing or content-heavy environment.
• Proven experience working with technology teams.
• Proven experience working with asset management systems and learning new systems/features (such as Atlas and DAM).
• Demonstrated ability to design policies, processes and governance documents.
• Experience working with data and creating process workflow documentation (using Visio).
• Experience with Excel and other data management tools (such as Power BI and SQL).
• Strong collaboration skills
• Effective communication skills, building positive stakeholder relationships.
• Experience in successful projects or change initiatives.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with a discretionary annual payment.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact [email protected] with any queries relating to this role.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.