IT Asset Management

Job Description:

• The ITAM team enables key corporate priorities by controlling costs enhancing operational efficiency and mitigating security and financial risks
• In this role your objectives will include tracking and managing software and hardware assets throughout their life cycle ensuring consistent operational processes are defined from initial request through retirement
• Providing accurate reporting to support business decision making while managing asset related risks and establishing a foundation for services such as Information Security Configuration Management Change Management Compliance Management Procurement budgeting and forecasting

Key Responsibilities:

• Interpret software license agreements and identify rules obligations and product metrics to ensure compliance with software license
• Understand general software Product Use Rights and contractual entitlement requirements for software products and publishers
• Collect cleanse and normalize software and hardware discovery and inventory information
• Establish and maintain regular license management processes to review License Position Reports
• Maintain regular Hardware Asset Inventory reports to ensure inventory coverage remains high
• Assist business and technical teams by monitoring and ensuring contract compliance
• Analyze consumption history and trends to understand and support discussion with stakeholders regarding future demand
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders to verify future anticipated demand for software and hardware translate this into budgeting forecasting guidance for the affected software programs
• Conduct regular analysis of actual consumption of pre purchased inventories to deployment plans
• Provide subject matter expertise to the Procurement Department in support of software license and hardware support renewal negotiations with publishers
• Support software compliance audits
• Interact with stakeholders as a promoter for Software Hardware Asset Management compliance processes and procedures
• Collaborate Group Wide with cross functional teams to continuously improve existing or implement new processes required to sustain the controls necessary to maintain software compliance
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders to ensure all assigned assets are being fully utilized

Technical Requirements:

• 7 years of business experience related to software and hardware asset management IT asset management CMDB or software procurement
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience interacting with multiple stakeholders throughout the company at all levels including senior management and across multiple countries
• Experience interpreting license and contractual terms conditions and analyzing purchase records
• Experience in managing license compliance for Tier 1 publishers such as Microsoft Oracle IBM Adobe and VMware
• Knowledge of a variety of software licensing models and metrics
• Provide support for Tiered vendor configurations in the SAM tool
• Working knowledge of SAM or HAM tool s i
• e AMDB SAM Pro Flexera
• Experience with corporate wide and or internal departmental software hardware policy procedure development and document preferred
• Establish and maintain regular license management processes to review License Position Reports
• Define and enforce policies standards and controls for software license compliance usage renewals and provide necessary evidence for regulatory requirements
• Support and guide the HAM team to ensure smooth execution of hardware asset governance processes
• Continuously monitor KPIs related to SAM technical and operational and HAM to ensure 100 data quality
• Familiar with discovery tools across platforms including SCCM JAMF and ServiceNow
• Knowledgeable in hardware asset lifecycle management including sustainability concepts and key KPIs to track
• Proven track record in driving cost saving and cost avoidance initiatives with reporting capabilities using Tableau JIRA and ServiceNow Performance Analytics

Preferred Skills:

Domain->Enterprise Asset Management->IT Asset Lifecycle Management,Domain->Service Management->IT Asset Management,Foundational->Software asset management->Software inventory, License manager, Software metering