CMDB Asset Manager – London – 6 months contract – excellent day rate
I am recruiting for a CMDB Asset Manager to work for a large insurance company based in London.
You will be responsible for defining the scope, objectives, and policies of the CMDB, as well as overseeing its design, implementation, and governance. You will oversee the overall concepts, data models, and processes needed to maintain the CMDB data and collaborate with Data Consumers and Data Providers to define requirements, establish data models, and design processes.
Role & Responsibilities
- Develops and implements Configuration and Asset Management standards, policies and procedures.
- Supports Key stakeholders across the IT organisation and the business to review, improve the asset management across the group so that it becomes cost effective.
- Manges scheduled reviews of the group estate including co-ordinating hardware audit activities across our group and support scheduled and unscheduled vendor audits.
- Ensure compliance with existing hardware and software contracts and assists with the negotiations and optimisation of new contracts.
- Manages the population of the CMDB; owns and manages the CMDB, central libraries, tools and data integrity; ensures CMDB data is current and accurate.
- Understands best practices and determines optimised procedures for updating CI data including the use of automated processes, discovery tools/integrations with other data sources, and manual input processes as necessary.
- Ensures that the success metrics and monitoring of Configuration Management and Asset Management processes are adhered to.
- Investigates industry innovations, maturity, trends, and changes regularly to plan and recommend new strategies.
- Works with the ITSM transformation Programme to raise awareness and win support for new Configuration and Asset Management procedures; ensures that changes to the Configuration and Asset Management methods and processes are properly approved and communicated to staff before being implemented; plans, publicises and oversees implementation of new/updated Configuration and Asset Management systems.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Experience of successfully managing hardware, software assets, ensuring that each asset is identifiable, recorded and audited with clear understanding and transparency around purchase costs and depreciation models.
- Experience in creating and managing a Configuration Management System.
- Experience of delivery in a complex multi-vendor supply chain with a mix of internally and externally sourced service provision.
- In depth experience of all aspects of IT services delivery.
- Experience in Service Management and substantial time as Process Owner.
- In depth experience of all aspects of IT services delivery
Contract details
- Day rate - £650-£750
- 6 months contract (potential to be extended depending on the client’s requirements)
- 5 days a week in the London office