Software Asset Management Professional

Job Details:

Skill: SAM (Software Asset Management)

Experience: 7+ Years

Location: - Pune

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners or within 30 days

Employee type: Full-Time

SAM (Software Asset Management)

Must have skills: *

7-10 years of professional experience in the software licensing industry with successful SAM/ software licensing, agreements experience across publishers.

*Validating the correct numbers of license consumption and entitlements. *Conducting financial analysis, challenge numbers, contract review and utilization reporting, and recommend opportunities for more efficient use of investments in software assets

*Good analytical skills to catch mistakes from reports, activities and processes.,

*Work with International teams - Europe/US/Asia *Stakeholders/senior management facing experience. Managing Senior stakeholder expectations and communications requirements. *Strong leadership skills on meetings and calls.

*Ability to work independently with minimal supervision across different organizational boundaries, cultures and in a global virtual environment *Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (especially with Excel or Google Sheet)

*Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills.

Good to have experience:

*Good understanding of virtualized environments, active directory/ Knowledge of ITAM and Inventory collection tools e.g. SCCM is advantageous. *Experience using ServiceNow Request Management Tool *Reporting experience in any tool e.g. SSRS *Software Procurement and Negotiations *Experience in driving automation and innovation practices to reduce human efforts.

Roles and Responsibilities:

*Performing Software Asset Management (SAM).

*Help perform License Compliance verification for key software publishers like Microsoft, Adobe and eager to learn license metrics from other Tier-1 software publishers.

*Respond to escalations/ analyzes data; highlights trends and gaps, and prepare data for business meetings/reviews

*Support day to day Software Compliance operational activities

*Support maintenance of accurate software asset data and reports as needed.

*Support and challenge annual Software True-Up activities for various publishers.

*Provide guidance and suggestions on licensing related queries.

*Understand and interpret software licensing usage, Enterprise Agreements and provide advice/guidance to the business as appropriate.

*Driving process and system improvements to improve the quality of software asset data, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of ITAM processes

*Reach out to various functional teams globally in the organization for the purpose of planned task or issue resolution.

Client interfacing