IT Asset Management Team Lead

Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, electrical, integrated building technology, and building services needs of their buildings across Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, and Ottawa. We also develop custom, turnkey solutions to help reach the desired outcomes. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada’s infrastructure and on the communities where we live, learn, work, and heal.

WE BUILD FOR LIFE.

We value passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork and we are committed to ensuring that our teams have everything they need to succeed. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do and, as a result, our award-winning safety culture has a record that’s well above industry standards.

At Modern Niagara, you will work alongside values-driven, safety-conscious, and high-impact teams in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment. Here, your knowledge, skills, and excellent service will help ensure that the buildings that make up Canada’s infrastructure fulfill the needs they were set out to meet.

Modern Niagara is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies and is a recipient of SMACNA‘s Safety Excellence Award Program (SSEAP) – Canada and the Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) Magazine’s Gold Winner for Canada’s Safest Employers Award in the Building and Construction category and Excellence Winner for Canada’s Best Health + Safety Culture Award as well as Canada’s Best Health + Safety Leader Award.

Modern Niagara is seeking an IT Asset Management Team Lead to join our Vaughan, ON IT team!

The IT Asset Management Team Lead plays a vital role in designing, developing, implementing, and supporting the organization’s comprehensive IT asset management strategy covering hardware, software, and telecommunications. Collaborating closely with other departments, this role ensures compliance with company policies and regulations while effectively managing, controlling, and safeguarding the organization’s hardware and software assets throughout their entire life cycle, from acquisition to final disposition. This encompasses planning, purchasing, monitoring, and recording software licenses and hardware assets to maintain compliance with internal accounting standards and vendor contracts.

This role will give you the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the overall asset program, enhance best practices, and drive operational efficiencies. You will ensure purchase requests align with budgetary constraints and meet legal and security requirements; all while adhering to the organization's procurement policy for handling IT software and hardware acquisition requests.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Track and ensure the accuracy of IT hardware, software, and telecommunication contracts and purchases throughout the product life cycle.
• Evaluate and maintain IT asset management and life cycle policies, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
• Recommend and establish new processes to enhance provisioning, acquisitions, recovery, or asset tracking.
• Ensure software license compliance for all corporate-owned software titles and associated agreements.
• Oversee and manage software portals for provisioning software licenses across the organization.
• Manage the organization’s PC, mobile, and tablet life cycle program, including inventory and surplus disposal.
• Interface with management to deliver metrics, presentations, budget information, and audit preparedness.
• Facilitate the business' ongoing technical support and upgrade protection on selected products by managing maintenance, support, and upgrade protection renewals in advance of expiration.
• Identify and capitalize on savings opportunities for renewals, software licensing, and services.
• Manage contracts and relationships to maximize value creation and minimize costs for IT asset licensing, maintenance, and service offerings.

Qualifications and Job Requirements:

• 3+ years of related experience in IT asset management with extensive knowledge of licensing, contracts, and procurement of IT assets (including renewals and maintenance).
• 1+ years of experience leading, mentoring, and motivating a team to comply
• Working knowledge and experience with IT service management tools, processes, and configuration management databases.
• Strong vendor management and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of ITIL best practices.
• Familiarity with Zoho ManageEngine would be considered an asset.
• Experience in the construction industry would be considered an asset.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

At Modern Niagara, we recognize the value of fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization and are committed to eliminating barriers faced by members of equity-seeking groups (women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, and new immigrants) in the construction industry. Our DEI vision is to build an organization where everyone has access to the same opportunities, experience equitable outcomes, and can thrive and reach their full potential.

We value the diversity of the people we hire and serve. Modern Niagara is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please advise us so that suitable accommodations can be made. We can be reached at careers@modernniagara.com.