Software Asset Manager

Job description

- Minimum 5+ years of Software Asset Management (SAM) experience. - Experience managing licenses from publishers like Oracle, VMware, IBM, Microsoft, Opentext, and others. - Proficiency in interpreting Product Terms and managing licensing agreements. - Ability to navigate publisher portals and interpret usage reports. - Familiarity with virtual technology terms and entitlement reports analysis. - Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing SAM Governance, Policy and lifecycle processes aligned to industry accepted standards. - Strong communication and collaboration skills for effective teamwork across global, cross-functional teams. **Responsibilities:** - Interpret current and past Product Terms for various publishers. - Manage licensing agreements of various publisher and overseeing renewals. - Navigate publisher portals and interpret usage reports. - Manage product licenses on-premises and in the cloud, including BYOL requirements for different cloud providers. - Analyze entitlement reports and software deployment data for detailed usage reports. - Collaborate seamlessly with a global, cross-functional team across different time zones. - Management and administration of tools like SNOW, ServiceNow etc - Create dashboards and reports with SNOW reporting tools to monitor KPIs, calculate savings, and show the ROI of software asset management programs. - Provide and troubleshoot early warnings on tool issues. - Establish and maintain accurate inventories of software assets, including licenses, entitlements, and usage statistics, in cooperation with the procurement, IT, and finance teams. - Interface with the product vendors to seek technical clarifications on Product related issues faced. - Identifies and delivers various cost optimization opportunities throughout the asset lifecycle. - Provide consulting advice on license implications for deployments in Datacenter, EUC estate and Cloud. -Experience in understanding IT Infrastructure, cyber security and network land scape and respective software knowledge is added advantage