Sr Asset Optimization Manager

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Sr Asset Optimization Manager (P5)

Houston, TX 8020 Katy Fwy
Houston, TX 77024, USA

For more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work.

The Senior Asset Optimization Manager is responsible for improving the financial performance of the tower portfolio through rigorous asset‑by‑asset analysis and coordination with various departments to execute efficiency strategies. This leader identifies, evaluates, and spurs implementation of opportunities to reduce operating expenses, including utility usage, taxes, rationalize or decommission underperforming assets, and identifying financial and operational targets to bring specific assets in line with best‑in‑class profitability and customer‑readiness standards.

The role partners cross‑functionally with Operations, Finance, Legal, Tax, and Customer teams to ensure maximum value creation across the portfolio.

• Conduct detailed asset‑level evaluations to identify opportunities for cost reduction, utility optimization, revenue enhancement, asset disposition, reduce maintenance obligations, simplification and customer-readiness enhancement.
• Develop and maintain a prioritized portfolio improvement roadmap with quantified financial impact.
• Lead the development of initiatives to reduce site OPEX, Cap Ex, land lease expense, and improve customer readiness.

• Identify top targets for renegotiation, rent reductions, license increase minimums.

• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to identify cost‑saving strategies and identify specific Business Units for action to reduce maintenance costs.

• Work closely with Finance to report savings, track KPIs, and validate forecasted vs. actual impacts.
• Collaborate to build reporting tools to track asset efficiencies, cost trends, and realized savings.
• Present recommendations and results to senior leadership with clear business justification and financial modeling.
• Lead comprehensive reviews to determine whether assets should be retired, consolidated, or sold based on usage, revenue, cost, and strategic relevance.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Telecommunications, or related field (MBA preferred).
• 10+ years of experience in telecommunications, tower infrastructure, real estate optimization, or related asset‑management fields.
• Strong financial acumen, including ROI analysis, modeling, and business case development.
• Proven success in cost‑reduction initiatives
• Ability to manage large datasets and use analytics to drive decisions.
• Creative thinking and collaborative approach is required to be successful.
• Experience with tower management platforms, asset‑level databases, or utility monitoring systems.
• Accounting and Finance experience.
• Understanding of telecom network operations, power systems, and site construction.
• Strong project management background with experience leading multi‑department initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build relationships across technical and business teams.

• Improvement in margin per asset towards best-in-class results.
• Stakeholder satisfaction and alignment across operational, legal, and financial teams.

Reports to:

VP Leasing & Real Estate

Title of direct reports (if applicable): N/A

This role falls into our current hybrid work model, which is 2-days remote and 3-days in the office. To optimize collaboration, relationship building, and key stakeholder engagement, starting 07/06/2026 we will move to a 4:1 hybrid model which is in office Monday-Thursday with the option for remote work on Fridays.

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