AddressWPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.
We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.
WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.
Why we're hiring:
At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT's mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP's petabytes of data.
As we progress on this journey, we need to establish a new and refreshed IT Asset Management backbone to our technology organisation in support of our transformation. You will play a key role in helping to shape and build the HAM capabilities within WPP and will be responsible for operating elements of the Hardware Asset Management (HAM) practice, so that we are able to optimise our asset base and manage/reduce risk.
The ITAM function is responsible for deploying and enforcing best practice on the IT E2E asset lifecycle.
What you'll be doing:
The Hardware Asset Manager is responsible for the lifecycle management of IT assets and the operation of key controls. This includes: -
- Development and deployment of Asset Management strategies, policies, standards, plans, procedures, and guidelines. Communicating the value of these across a continually shifting estate involving multiple IT teams, platforms, and business units.
- Lead a continuous improvement approach to operating HAM activity in WPP
- Manages and maintains the service compliance of IT assets in line with business and regulatory requirements. Managing corrective actions to resolve areas of non-compliance or breaches to policy.
- Applies tools, techniques, and processes to create and maintain an accurate asset register.
- Responsible for developing an asset control process to monitor accountability.
- Ensure effective management of the CMDB H/W asset inventory and accuracy of data within; Perform verification and audits of CMDB content; Ensure moves/adds/changes are correctly recorded
- Produces reports and analysis to support Asset Management activities and aid decision-making. Providing advice on complex Asset Management issues.
- Chair cross function, cross company Asset governance meetings. C-level stakeholder management
- Responsible for finding, assessing, and quantifying the risks in Asset Management and assisting business owner in the management and mitigation of those risks.
- Ensures asset controllers, infrastructure teams, 3rd Parties and the business co-ordinate and optimise value, maintain control, and maintain appropriate legal compliance.
- Identify IT Asset cost optimisation opportunities (reduce, reuse, and recycle) and lead the projects to achieve savings, working closely with stakeholders
- Knowledge of IT Infrastructure technologies; Network, Server, Storage and End User Computing and their maintenance and support contracts.
- Has experience of working with Service Now, specifically ITOM, Discovery, CMDB and HAM modules.
What you'll need:
Qualification Requirements (Desirable)
- Degree in engineering, computer science, finance or equivalent (i.e. MBA) desirable but not essential
- Minimum 7-10 years working in a Hardware Asset Management role or related
- Minimum 5-7 years working with ITAM or CMDB tools
Skill Requirements
- Strong experience and background in Hardware Asset Management disciplines and ITIL
- Expertise in end-to-end Asset Lifecycle Management (acquisition/build to retirement/decommission)
- Expert analytical skills with the ability to gather, analyse and interpret significant amounts of information accurately
- High competency in HAM data modelling and a deep bias towards data-driven decision making
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with IT Asset Management tools, ServiceNow and CMDB.
- Expert communicator with a track record of operating, partnering with and influencing business stakeholders and ability to translate technical information to a non-technical audience
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced organizational transformation and able to navigate and champion change across organisational / geographical complexity.
- Excellent organizational skills: detail-oriented, thorough, dependable, and trustworthy, with a positive attitude
- C- level stakeholder management
Who you are:
You're open:We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we'll give you:
Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
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