Position Description:
If you have a pioneering spirit and thrive on innovative projects, where you can influence the direction of technical strategy now is the time to join this dynamic team. We need to double our capacity to satisfy growing client demand globally and are looking for top talent. Combine the challenges offered by complex technical initiatives with the potential for international travel and gain experience and demonstrate your creativity. These are exciting times for CGI and are looking for dedicated individuals to trail blaze with us! The incoming senior member will be part of the ITAM and Compliance team working closely alongside our Director.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert and ambassador in the field for CGI globally
• Collaborate with the Software Asset Management teams and ITAM stakeholders such as the Enterprise Security, the Finance Asset Management and international stakeholders
• Improve and deliver a new HAM framework and services
• Handle Enterprise HAM services
• Review current HAM organizations and processes
• Define roadmaps for future mode of operations, to overcome challenges based on standard methodologies
• Prepare and present cases to collaborators to achieve goals outlined in the roadmap;
• In alignment with CGI’s Management Foundation, produce an Enterprise HAM Policy including effective governance; with defined policies and standards that will be the reference for CGI’s business units.
• Lead the implementation of the new HAM framework globally;
• Serve as the liaison between the CIO and the Stakeholders creating, building and maintaining open partnerships
• Advise key collaborators on methods, processes, standard methodologies, technologies and tools;
• Develop proactive processes that enable efficient Hardware Asset Management, and ensure Assets are accurately represented in CGI’s ITAM toolsets, including ownership, financial data and asset status
• Design reports and checklists with the goal to ensure data accuracy;
• Present status reports to management on a regular basis
• Leverage existing ITAM tools to enable Hardware Asset Management, and find opportunities for continuous Service Improvement
• Assist internal audits team in the definition of controls based on the new framework
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• 7 to 10 years of relevant experience in Hardware Asset Management;
• Demonstrated proficiency in IT Operations, hardware asset management, and customer/vendor relationships;
• Experience in leading projects across geographies and cultures (ex: offshore teams).

Qualifications / Education
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field;
• Experience working in large, international, complex IT organizations, building Hardware Asset Management Policies
• Experience implementing HAM policies and best practices in global settings, establishing KPI’s and other measures of success
• Proficient in verbal, written and communication skills in English and French;
• Must be solution oriented and able to work autonomously
• Holder of an ITAM certification is an asset
• Experience with MS Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).
• Experience with Flexera FlexNet Manager Suite, SCCM/MECM, ITSM CMDBs is an asset

Skills and Competencies
• Have extensive experience in the Hardware Asset Management and IT Asset Management domain, running an effective and efficient HAM Organization;
• Superior awareness of new HAM principals and best practices for all the stages of the asset lifecycle;
• Understanding of inventory management processes, techniques, reporting and discovery tools, and asset management databases technologies, used for hardware asset management;
• Knowledge of financial concepts and practices as they relate to HAM;
• Knowledge of project management and task-tracking, process mapping, reporting tools and techniques;
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills;
• Ability to communicate effectively (technical and non-technical);
• Ability to present complex data from multiple sources into a convincing business case, taking into consideration the needs and priorities of stakeholders;
• Demonstrated ability to work well in a team environment;
• Capacity to be cognizant of divergent viewpoints in a diverse, multi-cultural environment;
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, at all levels of an organizations.
• Problem solving: sound sense of judgment, ability to assess, reason, improvise and advocate solutions to problems;
• Results oriented: completes assigned activities within agreed timeframes, able to recognize priorities and deliver results;
• Proactive, interactive, tenacious and persistent that can lead both technical specialists and local management.
• Bilingual (English & French) both verbal and written (an asset)

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While technology is at the heart of our clients’ digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today — one of the world’s largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

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Manager, Hardware Asset Management
Category: Finance
Main location: Canada
Alternate Location(s): Any CGI location
Position ID: J0822-2162
Employment Type: Full Time