Our Company
We're Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We're crucial to the company's strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.
Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don't expect you to fit every requirement your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
The Role
- Experience to lead asset compliance tracking and ensure to manage complete life cycle of Software/Hardware assets for the organization.
- Identify, document, and report license compliance issues and recommend solutions for a fix.
- Maintain the accuracy of the data in the Asset Management System according to Service Level Agreements and responsible to Maintain, update, track and report on all assets throughout the asset life cycle.
- Working closely with the various IT groups responsible for various IT Assets.
- Maintain software standards, validate product lists and maintenance contracts within the asset management database. Coordinate software license and maintenance agreement reviews.
- Advise management for best practices to optimize existing assets while reducing risks
- Populate hardware asset data into the asset tracking system, including procurement data, contract data, warranty information, and all related financial information.
- Review and analyze hardware contracts and maintenance agreements to establish entitlements. Validate data between all systems of record and the asset management tool.
- Provide data insights for hardware agreement renewals, negotiation, and procurement decisions, including ROI and cost avoidance.
- Monitor and alert stakeholders to changes in hardware warranty terms and conditions. Track hardware entitlement data related to projects and resolve discrepancies to maintain data integrity.
- Interact closely with counterparts in APAC, EMEA and the US to develop where applicable, regional policies and procedures in order to comply with the regulatory requirements
- Conduct and lead software/hardware asset reconciliation and audit activities.
- Assist Service Delivery in IT Asset Refresh planning, IT planning, and purchasing
- Lead all internal and external software licensing audits, analyze results and provide corrective action plans to senor management
- Work with IT management and procurement team to optimize software licensing agreements, identify potential savings areas, manage software product contracts, and create automated processes to facilitate software procurement/deployment
- Advise and define license recommendations that support business goals, in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
What You'll Bring
- 15+ years experience in Asset S/W & H/W compliance management
- ITIL Foundations Certificate and experience in multicultural environment
- Familiarity with asset management software and/or inventory tracking systems, such as Flexera, CMDB etc.
- Excellent people skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams, partners, and customers
- Experience in asset management, with tools such as ServiceNow, SCCM, and Intune and expert in reconciliation and manual data reconciliation.
- Familiarity with contract/agreement review and accurate interpretation.
- Familiarity with hardware vendors and their products, including Microsoft, Dell, HP, Cisco, and Apple. Strong interpersonal, collaboration, communication, and relationship skills for delivering a positive customer experience.
About Us
We're a global, 1000-stong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We're curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you're not just another employee; you're part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.
Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.
How We Look After You
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
