SAM (Software Asset Management) Professional

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