Roles and responsibilities
· Provide strategic leadership of the SAM service
· Establish SAM process measures and targets for the department
· Ensure SAM department and resources are aligned with technology organization's strategic vision
· Establish and communicate the process mission, goals, and objectives to all stakeholders
· Documenting and maintaining required SAM processes, policies, and procedures
· Produce and deliver powerful and expressive PowerPoint presentations, often to explain highly complex software licensing models, metrics, and implications to a myriad of stakeholders, often with conflicting priorities and agendas, in a clear and simplistic manner
· Resolving cross-functional disconnects and issues that arise
· Monitoring, measuring, & reporting on the effectiveness of SAM process to senior management & stakeholders
· Identify continuous process redesign, improvement opportunities and projects
· Internally align with key stakeholders to develop relationships for proactive software management
· Create process & work instruction documents across software landscape for consistent & measurable output
· Align with internal departments (Procurement, Vendor Management, Legal, etc.) to ensure all aspects of software license and compliance management are captured and reported as required
· Interpret software license agreements (extracting key management criteria) and evaluating the impact to the overall organization/strategic direction
· Make recommendations to Sr. Leadership on ways to streamline and improve practices that impact SAM efforts
· Lead and assist with key SAM initiatives as defined by the Client
· Consulting customers regarding SAM project requirements
· Interaction with customers to troubleshoot and solve configuration issues
· Creating SAM technical and functional documentation as per requirements
· Supporting and training of internal SAM Technical team members and customers
· External technical and project coordination with customers and SAM tool providers
· preparation of license compliance reports for Tier 1 software vendors
· Strong licensing knowledge for at least 3 – 4 Tier 1 Software vendors is a must
· Solid understanding of IT environments and infrastructure (Infra and Networking)
· Knowledge of CMDB’s, and Software Management tools / will be beneficial.
· Understanding of Active Directory, User Management, working with Citrix, VM, Windows Server Administration.
· Experience with other platforms such as IBM, Unix, Linux, Mac is a plus
· At least 10-15 years of proven experience in the field of SAM and IT Asset Management
· IT Asset Management and Discovery Tools experience, preferably the top ones such as Brainware (Spider), Service Now SAM Pro, Flexera, Snow, Aspera, IBM Tivoli, HP Asset Manager
· Experience interpreting licensing terms and conditions
· Full-Time Graduate in Computer Science / Information Technology / Equivalent diploma in IT.
· ITAM certification. Candidates with SAM Certification is (preferable)
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