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ID #49551036
State North Carolina
City Durham
Job type Contract
Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
Source SPECTRAFORCE TECHNOLOGIES Inc.
Showed 2023-03-26
Date 2023-03-20
Deadline 2023-05-19
Category Et cetera
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Asset Manager

North Carolina, Durham, 27701 Durham USA

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Role: Asset Manager Location: Durham, NC/Merrimack, NH/Smithfield, RI (Hybrid, 1 week onsite/Month)Duration: 12+ MonthsPay rate starts from: $50/hr on W2W2 Only

Must Haves:
  • Good understanding of software asset management
  • Experience managing through the software licensing contracts and entitlement process
  • ServiceNow knowledge
  • Understanding entitlements and procurement
  • Experience with managing large vendors (IBM, oracle, informatica)
  • Managed through a vendor audit, does not have to lead the audit, but experience working through audits with large companies

The RoleThe Software Asset Manager role supports the day-to-day activities associated with the organization’s IT assets, ensuring operational efficiencies and data completeness through the full lifecycle of IT assets across a hybrid environment (multi-cloud and on-prem), including:
  • Managing key relationships with peer roles across the enterprise, including: Business Application Owners, Service Catalogue Manager, Software Product Owners, and Procurement representatives.
  • Accountable to ensure new entitlement purchases, true-ups, and maintenance renewals, including maintenance of contract pricing and negotiated terms.
  • Collaborate to ensure licensing contracts are optimized based on usage and predicted consumption.
  • Understand impact of maintenance / assurance, support contracts and requirements.
  • Leading analysis, design, and requirements for IT SAM process improvements and feature enhancements
  • Manage lifecycle stages of software assets from initial request - purchasing, deployment, maintenance - through removal from service.
  • Ensuring quality of software asset records within the Asset Management Repository, including Software Discovery Models, Software Product Models and Software Entitlements.
  • Discover and establish a full inventory of software deployed.
  • Identify and correlate hardware and devices of the deployed software.
  • Identify number of licenses, licensing scheme / type, and utilization of each discovered software.
  • Identify publishers for whom we do not have full license spend and see high-level where we are non-compliance.
  • Determine number of licensed applications, and identify vendor, count, cost per license, and current license holders. Categorize all license usage: assigned in-use, assigned unused, unassigned, expired.
  • Develop and analyze reconciliation reports to determine required actions to address non-compliant software installations.
  • Driving reconciliation by comparing entitlements with discovered software installations to determine effective license positions for each in-scope publisher.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring
  • Self-motivated team player who brings energy, enthusiasm, and intellectual curiosity to the role
  • Exceptional execution skills and attention to detail
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative problem-solving skills
  • Effective in identifying opportunities for improvement, prioritizing options, and recommendations
  • Experience leading day-to-day operational activities for a Software Asset Management (SAM) program
  • Experience managing IT assets throughout their full lifecycle
  • Knowledge of software licensing models, including for large vendors (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.)
  • Experience with asset discovery tools and managing associated data; to analyze and identify potential gaps
  • Significant experience with SAM related platforms, tools, and integrations - including ServiceNow SAM and Ariba
  • Experience as a member of vendor audit activities, including leading software publisher audits to closure
  • Undergraduate degree, or equivalent experience

About Us

Below is the brief introduction of SPECTRA

FORCE, the benefits we offer and the disclaimers:Established in 2004, SPECTRA

FORCE is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams.We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 130 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation.SPECTRA

FORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people (and clients) can reach their highest potential. Our entire workflow and teams are trained to cultivate the joy of NEWJOBPHORIA® with candidates and employees throughout their engagement with SPECTRA

FORCE. http://www.spectraforce.com

Benefits: SPECTRA

FORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, and hospital indemnity insurances. Additional benefits SPECTRA

FORCE offers to the eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching and a referral bonus program. SPECTRA

FORCE offers unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRA

FORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at nahr@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation

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