Enterprise Technology Asset Manager

Located in North Carolina's third largest city, UNC Greensboro is among the most diverse, learner-centered public research universities in the state, with 18,000 students in eight colleges and schools pursuing more than 150 areas of undergraduate and over 200 areas of graduate study. UNCG continues to be recognized nationally for academic excellence, access, and affordability. UNCG is ranked No. 1 most affordable institution in North Carolina for net cost by the N.Y. Times and No. 1 in North Carolina for social mobility by The Wall Street Journal - helping first-generation and lower-income students find paths to prosperity. Designated an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, UNCG is a community-engaged research institution with a portfolio of more than $67M in research and creative activity. The University's 2,600 staff help create an annual economic impact for the Piedmont Triad region in excess of $1B.

The ITS Division is organized so that the Management and Budgets group is responsible for managing the entire division's budget of over $20,000,000, all personnel work for a staff of over 130 permanent and a number of temporary positions and management of Division and Enterprise IT contracts, and management of divisional hardware and software (including fixed assets in excess of $10,000,000, and millions of dollars in other non-fixed assets).

Duties include budgeting, purchasing, management of travel, and financial reporting and analysis; preparing paperwork and advising management on all hiring activities and personnel actions; technology contract management (hundreds of contracts and click wraps) for Divisional and Enterprise Hardware; advising management and staff on policies and procedures, financial, asset management and tracking for all divisional hardware and software.

As the Enterprise Technology Asset Manager, this position will be a critical leader responsible for establishing, maintaining, and optimizing the lifecycle management of all technology assets across the organization. This includes hardware, software, cloud services, and related IT infrastructure. This position will develop and implement robust asset management strategies, policies, and procedures to ensure accurate inventory, cost-effectiveness, compliance, and risk mitigation. This leader's expertise with Information Technology assets, policies, procedures, and life cycles, as well as the technology tools needed to manage the asset management applications needed to provide analysis will be vital in providing data-driven insights to support strategic technology decisions and optimize IT spending. This role requires experience with IT asset management applications and tools, strategic planning, vendor management, and strong analytical skills to maximize the value of technology investments.

This position will report directly to the Information Technology Services Director of Resource Management and will have team lead responsibilities for a hardware asset manager and a software asset manager in the Asset Management area of the Resource Management division within ITS. These responsibilities will include operational coordination of these two employees' duties and responsibilities, functioning as a subject matter expert for the team, and represent this team in cross-functional meetings.