Junior IT Asset Management Specialist to support software asset licensing requirements, compliance, and inventory.

Our valued health-care client is seeking a Junior IT Asset Management Specialist for an initial 7 month contract in Ottawa, ON (possibility for extension).

This role will require working in Ottawa adhering to the client’s hybrid model (2 days a week on-site).

As the successful candidate you will support the IT Asset Management team with a variety of tasks including review of software contract renewals, requirements, negotiations, Compliance and Audit, and Inventory.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in contract renewals discussions to ensure renewal terms.
• Perform on-going assessments of potential changes between software entitlements and software usage and ensure management is informed of discrepancies.
• Proactively seek information and maintain an awareness regarding updates to vendor’s terms and conditions.
• Collect information and help optimize volume licensing agreements and minimize the risk of over-purchasing.
• Eliminate costs that result from mistakenly acquiring too many licenses.
• Perform inventories and usage monitoring of IT software assets/licensing.
• Assist to develop communication and education strategies to assist the organization’s employees to understand the goals of the program.
• Work with other teams to implement vendor’s license management or inventory tools.
• Provide feedback on opportunities for maximizing or exploiting unused or partially used IT assets to achieve full efficiency and ROI.
• Monitor and analyze trends in company spending and inventory control to make recommendations for the future, and to identify areas for possible savings and/or asset optimization.
• Assist with the automation of manual processes for smoother, more efficient operation.
• Understand and potentially operate some of the following tools for software inventory, license management, software metering, application control, software deployment, patch management, request management, and product catalogue.
• Support the Gap analysis report - Pull reports on a biweekly basis to verify data accuracy.
• Comply with SLAs based on ITSM tickets assigned to the IT Software Asset Management Group

Must-have skills:

• 2+ years’ experience in an IT environment working with IT Asset Management (as a Deskside Support Technician, Service Desk Analyst, or similar role)
• Knowledge of vendor management, contract management and understanding of IT software assets/licensing used across an organization.
• Knowledge of data analysis and reporting on key data to monitor trends.

Nice-to-have skills.

• Proven expertise with vendor management and managing organizations IT software assets.
• Experience working in a healthcare environment.