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- 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
- 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.
- 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
Vacancy expired!