Trinity Health is looking to solve the problem of managing its IT software assets and ensuring compliance with regulatory, operational, legal, audit, and reporting requirements.
Requirements
- Advanced knowledge of Software Asset Management procedures and tools.
- Knowledge of financial management process and tools.
- Knowledge of configuration management process and tools.
- Experience with software environment within a large enterprise.
- Knowledge of the hardware life cycle and the ability to map its stages to relevant asset management processes internally.
- Familiarity with ITIL foundations, practices and processes.
- Advanced Software Manager (ASM), Certified Software manager (CSM) or advanced knowledge of software licensing models and their use.
Responsibilities
- Ensures accurate and complete accounting of both hardware and software assets throughout their lifecycle.
- Establishes policies and procedures for tracking assets and explores opportunities for maximizing unused or partially used assets to achieve full efficiency and ROI from company resources.
- Ensures legal compliance with software licenses, warranties, maintenance agreements, and vendor contracts by validating licenses against installed software to mitigate liability as the result of an audit.
- Analyzes hardware warranties, maintenance agreements, vendor contracts, upgrades, repair, and replacement contracts to make recommendations to appropriate TIS management on effective use of IT software maintenance budgets.
- Participates in the review of the purchase of new hardware or software, in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders by determining usage rights, ROI and total cost of ownership throughout the product lifecycle.
- Monitors and analyzes trends in spending and inventory control in order to make recommendations for the future and to identify areas for possible cost savings and/or asset optimization.
- Ensures that inventories and usage monitoring of all IT assets are conducted with Trinity Health security policies.
Other
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Finance, or Supply Chain and a minimum of 5 – 7 years' experience in enterprise level IT Asset Management or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Proven leadership and management experience.
- Good analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to meet deadlines and set priorities.
- Must be comfortable in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.
