Job: Software Asset Manager Location: Westlake, TX (2 weeks onsite in a month) Contract Skills: - 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 Role The 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: Handling 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 Handle 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. Identify 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 resolve required actions to address non-compliant software installations. Performing reconciliation by comparing entitlements with discovered software installations to resolve effective license positions for each in-scope publisher.
