Job Title        : Software Asset Management Specialist
Experience    : 10-15 Years
Location        : Remote

Job Description :

•    Responsible for researching information on legislation that affects the use, tracking and reporting of software assets, staying current and researching the impact of pending regulations and legislations.
•    Monitor software legislation trends for each client geographical area, Map legislation to compliance requirements
•    Design training material at multiple levels including quick guides, online, course
•    Communicate software compliance requirements to various group teams
•    Manage internal IT audit process for SAM; Create and manage audit response team
•    Verify and validate SAM practice against compliance requirements
•    Responsible to evaluate the accuracy of asset information in the SNOW tool; Assists auditors in the review of Asset Management compliance;

•    Enforces Asset Management policies; Ensures interfaces take place with other ITSM processes, internal functions, and external suppliers.
•    Implements and builds controls for a software inventory, ultimately linking licensing, usage, locations, and documentation for all software products
•    Maintains visibility into software asset processes and builds controls for software assets throughout the lifecycle to uncover more savings and value, reduce support and rollout costs and maintain compliance
•    Develops, implements, and promotes policies, processes and procedures for software acquisitions, installations, usage, and disposition
•    Provides the correct applications to the specified users at optimal intervals to obtain the best value and to eliminate unnecessary software products
•    Utilizes available resources to solve problems, aware that SAM issues interrelate and impact important business objectives
•    Enacts and maintains a proactive Software Asset Management compliance process or continually works toward replacing reactive processes
•    Uses software policies, processes, and procedures to identify and thwart software piracy and theft
•    Builds and nurtures productive relationships with all other business units, both those that interact with the IT business functions and those that are customers
•    Provides employee awareness of Software compliance
•    Conducts responsibilities and tasks in support of the Software Asset Management Lead
•    Responsible for the below Software Asset Management compliance and optimization tasks improvement and identify and implement the Automation opportunities:
o    Involved in the calculating of software license compliance based on software license right-to-use (RTU), software license agreements, maintenance agreements and software installations
o    Validate requirements to create or modify IT software asset records and associated contract records in appropriate software repository (SNOW)
o    All changes to vendor agreements are accurately reflected in SAM as confirmed with License Contract holders
o    Provide expertise in ensuring that software license contracts and agreements, software licenses and software installations and associated linkages are reflected correctly in the ITAM / Software Asset Management platform repository
o    Provide expertise to ensure that software license records are linked to the correct hardware device
o    Create and update software counters for software titles and licenses. Research, upgrade, and downgrade parameters that impact client Right to Use (RTU) when creating or modifying software title counters
o    Provides monthly and quarterly software license compliance status reports to Sr. Management 
o    Review software compliance measures based on existing licensing agreements
o    Understand current utilization and installation of licenses based on RTU focus
o    Provide analysis of Asset Data information for compliance and risk purposes as well as trends, contracts, and cost.
o    Ensure the IT Asset Inventory (Software) statistics are delivered within agreed timelines.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE: 
Knowledge & Experience: 
•    Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, and Information Systems or equivalent experience, Master's preferred. 
•    Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
•    Strong experience in Software asset management related international standards (e.g., ISO 19770, ISO20000/ITIL); SAM certification preferred (e.g., IAITAM Certified Software Asset Manager).
•    Experience with license management and optimization tools, software discovery tools (e.g., SNOW or MS SCCM or LANDesk) and IT asset inventory systems
•    MS product Suite including Visio and MS project
•    Minimum 10 yrs. of of experience in Software Asset Management, 3+ yrs. of experience in Project Management. 
•    Expert with software license compliance and optimization techniques 

Skills:
•    Ability to work under pressure and turn things around on a short time frame 
•    Ability to visualize solutions for complex problems on paper and in presentations
•    Strong delegation and proven project management skills 
•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as interpersonal and influencing skills;

•    ability to define and capture business needs along with articulating strategic implications of analytic results with clarity and persuasiveness in an audience appropriate manner.

•    Strong leadership skills so as to be able to push changes forward, manage potential conflicts 
•    Good in interpersonal relationships and able to gain the trust of main interaction points and respect of IT organization in order to drive IT strategy 
•    Innovative character, with future-oriented and imaginative vision and willingness to experiment and push things to the next level 
•    Dynamism and charisma to push the organization to innovate and incentivize teams assigned to innovation tasks and projects