We're seeking someone to join our EDC (Enterprise Data Center) Team as a Data Center IT Asset + Event Manager.

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is an Infrastructure Production Management & Reliability Engineering II position at Associate level, which is part of the job family responsible for maintaining the stability and reliability of the organization's infrastructure systems, ensuring optimal performance and availability to support business operations.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you'll do in the role:

This role will be focused on reducing IT and operational risk to the Firm during the final stages of the IT Asset Lifecycle: IT Asset Decommissioning and Disposal. As a supervisor, the candidate will ensure all personnel reporting to them conduct themselves in a safe and professional manner, follow all safety guidelines and firm security policies and will set a personal example of these qualities at all times.

The role will also be focused on fastidiously tracking asset decommissioning and disposal operations activity and documenting incident (loss) investigations. Records, including manifests, approval forms, invoices, certificates of destruction (CoDs), and images must be meticulously organized in accordance with all firm electronic communication standards. As such, the candidate will interface with and build professional relationships with EDC Operations staff, third-party disposal vendor staff, and EDC risk management staff to facilitate smooth business-as-usual operations, incident remediation and risk management as needed, and regulatory projects upon request.

Event Manager duties are as follows:

• Serve as main subject matter expert for the data centers he/she is responsible for. Expertise must be maintained in the following areas:
  • Enterprise Data Center process documents and procedure documents
  • Firm Electronic Communication standards and policies
  • Firm security standards and policies
  • Physical inventory spaces within the data centers he/she is responsible for
  • Service Level agreements with local data center service vendors (e.g. Hines, Quick).
  • Use of proprietary data input and reporting tools
• Train Asset Control Technicians on use of tools and data center procedures.
• Manage and ensure data input quality is accurate and timely.
• Travel to local unmanned sites and conduct shipping/secure shipping of assets to manned data centers for processing.
• Ensure staff demonstrate full adherence to firm safety, security, communication, and data center policies at all times.
• Fill in for Asset Control Technicians during times of absence when necessary.

Asset Processing and Control duties are as follows:

• Properly receive, breakdown and inventory system logging of decommissioned data center assets whose next state of disposition is disposal or reuse
• Validate upstream records meet decommission scope and technology goods receiving requirements
• Ensure persistent storage components are timely separated from parent device, scanned and logged into the appropriate inventory system
• Adhere to asset inventory and receiving standards and procedures
• Validate goods slated for disposal received via the Logistics process (ingested non-DC goods)
• Manage proper turnover of processed assets to secure storage entity
• Coordinate with relevant teams to identify and improve document asset management control risks e.g. physical security systems, secure storage access, CCTV coverage, record keeping, etc.

Team Management Responsibilities are as follows:

• Excellent teamwork skills, capable of working effectively across a variety of IT and Business groups, across regions, roles and able to interact effectively with all management levels
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Ability to identify appropriate stakeholders within and beyond immediate team and work to build and maintain tight network/relationships with them
• Strong communication skills essential – both written and verbal
• Experience in developing executive level presentation materials
• Self-starter able to identify where focus is needed and bring clarity to requirements
• Proven ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects with minimal supervision
• Ability to work in fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

What you'll bring to the role:

• Ability to engage with the broader team, communicate goals, tasks and deliverables in 1-1 and team meetings.
• Professional-level Japanese necessary.
• Good English skills necessary.
• Minimum Associates Degree
• Must have at least one year of experience working in a data center environment
• PMP or other project management certification a plus but not required

What you can expect from Morgan Stanley:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.

Why Morgan Stanley?

- A career with Morgan Stanley means being part of an inclusive culture that encourages diverse perspectives, innovation, and cross-collaboration to bring value to our clients. You'll find passionate people from all walks of life working together to make the world a little better every day.

- We invest in the growth and success of our people through mentorship and development programs, as well as abundant opportunities to connect with peers and senior leaders through employee-driven networks and volunteer activities.

- Your wellness and priorities outside of work are important to us. Our competitive compensation and benefits package is designed to support the diverse needs of our employees and take care of you and your family.

- Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to build and support a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. We are committed to support special needs or reasonable accommodations necessary to enable you to work comfortably and effectively.

- Discover our Japan Offerings: https://www.morganstanley.co.jp/ja/people/working-at-morgan-stanley

- Discover our Global Offerings: https://www.morganstanley.com/people/experienced-professionals

Our Commitment to Japan

Everything we do at Morgan Stanley is guided by our five core values: do the right thing, put clients first, lead with exceptional ideas, commit to diversity and inclusion, and give back. Since opening a representative office in Tokyo in 1970, we have been one of the largest and most active foreign financial firms in Japan providing investment banking, sales & trading, real estate, and investment management services.

Our People (English): https://www.morganstanley.com/articles/who-we-are

Our People (Japanese): https://www.morganstanley.co.jp/ja/people

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.