WPP Looking for IT Asset Management Analyst at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

WPP 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 109,000 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, 317 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 8th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.

WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world’s largest communications services group. As a creative transformation company, WPP is helping its clients transform the future through extraordinary work. WPP IT is an integral part of that journey and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world’s most creative brands.

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 to support our transformation. You will be responsible to operate within the IT Asset Management Operations practice, so that we are able to optimise our asset base and manage/reduce risk. The ITAM function is responsible for deploying and enforce best practice on the IT E2E asset lifecycle.

What you’ll be doing:
Maintain contract, entitlement and inventory data repositories and manage SAM & HAM tool hygiene

Perform analysis on SAM & HAM data quality: identify and resolve inaccuracies

Generate software and hardware inventory reports

Diligently run operational SAM & HAM activities and processes (e.g. request management, user support, knowledgebase updates, entitlement capture, inventory management)

Manage vendor’s license portals and perform license allocations

Manage Service Now resover groups

Produce performance dashboards using metrics and KPIs

Work with the Software/Hardware Asset Managers to run software optimisation activities, including software reclaim

Run software savings governance process, logging savings and issuing to comms to stakeholders

Produce and maintain the body of SAM and HAM documentation

Apply a continuous improvement approach to running SAM and HAM activity in WPP

Identify software cost optimisation opportunities and work with the Software/Hardware Asset Managers to achieve them

Drive the compliant use of WPP’s software and hardware contracts through educating colleagues, enforcing policies, and monitoring adherence to processes.

What you’ll need:
Strong experience and background in Software Asset Management disciplines and ITIL

Understanding of Appplication Management and Categories

Expert data analysis skills and demonstrable experience in data modelling for vendors such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, SAP, VMware in datacentre, virtualised and end user environments

Knowledge and hands-on experience with IT asset management tools, ServiceNow SAM and HAM Pro and CMDB.

Excellent organizational skills: detail-oriented, thorough, dependable, and trustworthy, with a positive attitude

Qualification Requirements (Desirable)

Degree in engineering, computer science, finance – desirable but not essential

Minimum 2 years working in an IT Asset Management role

Minimum 2 years working with ITAM or CMDB tools

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?

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.

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