Global IT Asset Manager - Fitch Ratings
(2023-01)
- Obtaining quotes from suppliers and vendors to support hardware and asset procurement requirements.
- Negotiating pricing and commercial terms with vendors to achieve cost-effective procurement outcomes.
- Identifying, evaluating, and onboarding new vendors to strengthen supplier coverage and support business needs.
- Raising purchase orders, submitting orders, and ensuring all procurement activity is processed accurately and efficiently.
- Tracking orders and deliveries, providing regular updates to internal contacts and stakeholders on delivery progress.
- Managing stock levels across EMEA and APAC offices, including HQ London, to ensure availability of IT equipment and resources.
- Purchasing mobile phones for the UK business, assigning devices to users, and managing mobile phone stock levels.
- Managing IT assets throughout their full lifecycle, from procurement and deployment through to retirement and disposal.
- Inputting hardware information into D42 upon delivery to maintain accurate asset records and inventory tracking.
- Organising and coordinating asset disposals across EMEA and APAC offices, ensuring compliance with company processes and data security requirements.
- Supporting and coordinating hardware refresh projects to ensure devices are replaced and deployed in line with business needs.
- Maintaining strong vendor relationships to support service quality, timely delivery, and effective procurement outcomes.
Sales Team Leader - Carib Jet
(2021-05)
Supporting sales teams and develop/train new and existing staff. Building strong relationships with managers and colleagues to support excellent delivery. Leading the team, instilling passion for performance and driving return for our customers.
To ensure company standard operating systems / best practice are embedded fully within the teams. Supporting and guiding the team to ensure every activity is delivered to the standard briefed. To embed & champion our people promise principles across the account and ensure they are lived every day.
Asset Manager - ScanSource Communications Europe - Distribution
(2016-06 - 2021-04)
- Maintaining stock levels
- Rotating obsolete or aged stock
- Placing orders for physical and non-physical goods on SAP
- Maintaining goods communications with vendors
- Using SAP and BI to run reports.
- Excel – Vlookups and pivot tables
- Updating pricing material in SAP
- Creating and maintaining SKU's / materials in SAP
- Working with clous vendors – running the ordering to billing process
- Creating special price agreements in Vistex
- Working with the warehouse to solve delivery discrepancies.
- Solving invoice queries with accounts payable
- Avaya/Shoretel/ExtremeNetworks/Cisco/Mitel/Unify/Polycom/8x8/Nfon/BlueJeans/Huddly/Virtual1/Videxo/Plantronics/Enghouse/Oracle/NEC/DolbyVoice/Jabra
Global IT Coordinator & Asset Manager - British Standards Institution (BSI) - Chiswick London
(2010-12 - 2016-05)
- In charge of all hardware and software asset purchases for global BSI offices
- Raising purchase orders and capex
- Regular f2f meetings with all BSI suppliers
- Deploying hardware to new employees
- Deploying new software to current and new employees
- Managing stock levels of assets
- Raising reporting on assets in SAP and BI
- Meetings with global teams to ensure assets are currently being deployed
