Asset Manager

Anaheim, CA

Talent Orchard LLC, a Woman Owned Small Business with 8a designation has been contracted by a large defense contractor in their search for an Asset Manager.

The Asset Manager reports directly to the Workplace Solutions Service Delivery Manager (SDM), and is responsible for working with the technical service areas to take a detailed inventory of the organization’s software and hardware assets.  The Asset Manager will ensure the team’s execution of and adherence to established Asset Management standards and procedures.  The Asset Manager role entails developing and maintaining processes, policies, standards, systems and measurements that help the organization to effectively manage both on a daily basis and long-term its IT asset portfolio (software and technology-related hardware).  The Asset Manager works directly with the subject matter expert (SME) of the technical service areas to ensure assets are recorded properly in the ITSM tool. 

As a part of a cross-functional team, the Change/Release Manager will also be responsible for backing up other members of the team to support Incident, Problem, Change, Release and Configuration management responsibilities.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform daily and long-term operational and strategic management of hardware and software
• Plan, monitor, and record hardware assets and/or software license to make sure they complied with vendor contracts in different software tools
• Apply a continuous improvement approach in enhancing the strategies employed in technology spending, as well as in tracking company assets within the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) throughout their lifecycle
• Ensure effective management of the CMDB and that the content contained is accurate
• Provide KPI/Metric information and standardized reporting on a scheduled basis together with unscheduled reporting demanded by management
• Define and enhance scheme for identifying hardware and software-related assets as well as CIs, including versioning and dependencies in the asset management tools, attributes, the Contract management library, and the CMDB
• Manage inventory of CIs and assets, including dependencies and attributes), making sure that modifications, withdrawals, and additions of existing ones are correctly recorded by the teams in charge in the tools to ensure that the vendor contracts are complied with
• Responsible for managing lifecycle of hardware and software models in the DML right from their introduction to their retirement
• Generate and distribute various reports, including compliance reports on current assets and CIs and their status; also perform trend analyses
• Perform verification and audit of DML and CMDB content; verify software assets with license contracts, confirm hardware assets with actual inventory, and initiate corrective actions and tract them
• Manage activities concerning license compliance audits to be able to answer to requests from software editors effectively
• Establish and maintain documentation of procedures, processes, and reports concerning asset and configuration management
• Take part in other ITSM processes, or as required perform as a back up to maintain operational activities
• Establish and maintain hardware and software maintenance database
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal communications and complex problem solving Advanced written and verbal communications skills including the ability to develop presentations and present to senior management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required and two (2) years or more of related experience
• Asset Management or relevant work experience required
• Minimum 1 year of Operations experience in a 24x7x365 environment required
• Hands-on Asset Management, or Project Management experience
• Knowledge of industry Asset Management best practices
• Possess strong communication, interpersonal skills as well as outstanding organizational skill

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working in cross- functional, multi-location teams
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• ITIL® Foundation Level or higher Certification

Established in 2010, Talent Orchard has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive, talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI.  Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery.

To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at www.talentorchard.com.