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We are committed to excellence and driven by outcomes that matter. Collaboration is at the heart of how we work, and our forward-thinking mindset fuels continuous learning, innovation, and growth.\nAt Cognizant, careers transcend titles. We empower our people to think strategically, inspire others, and lead with purpose, always guided by our core values. Join us in shaping the future of business. Could you be the one to make a difference?\nAbout the role\nAs an ITVMO Demand, Licensing & Compliance professional, you will support enterprise technology demand management, software asset governance, license compliance, and decision intelligence. You will maintain an accurate view of software demand, entitlements, consumption, renewals, and licensing metrics across the technology portfolio.\nYou will work across business and technology teams and partner with application owners, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, finance, legal, risk, and other stakeholders. You will bring a detail-oriented, analytical, and customer-service-focused approach, translating complex licensing, usage, compliance, and technology information into clear business insights and actionable recommendations.\nIn this role, you will:\nLead enterprise software demand management, including intake, validation, prioritization, forecasting, and ongoing tracking. Validate requests against inventory, existing entitlements, approved standards, usage, budgets, and technology roadmaps, and recommend appropriate fulfilment paths.\nInterpret publisher-specific licensing rules and metrics and perform effective license position and compliance reviews. Reconcile entitlement, deployment, allocation, inventory, and usage data to identify compliance exposure, over-deployment, underutilization, duplicate capabilities, and optimization opportunities.\nManage renewal and subscription timelines and support budget planning through forecasts, consumption, allocations, accruals, variance analysis, and financial exposure. Develop dashboards and management reports covering demand, utilization, compliance, renewals, product rationalization, technology spend, and operational performance.\nApply AI-enabled analytics and automation to forecasting, anomaly detection, license optimization, compliance monitoring, renewal readiness, workflows, stakeholder notifications, and reporting. Define, test, deploy, monitor, and continuously improve AI agents with human oversight, access controls, data privacy, decision traceability, accuracy measures, and exception escalation.\nLead and develop team members, establish operating rhythms and performance measures, maintain data quality and audit-ready controls, research software and licensing trends, partner with cross-functional stakeholders, and drive software standardization, catalog governance, application rationalization, and continuous improvement.\nEmbrace our vibrant culture by striving for excellence, focusing on meaningful outcomes, and collaborating effectively. Prioritize quality, stay curious, and commit to continuous learning. Take ownership, build relationships, and focus on personal growth to drive business strategy and create unmatched career opportunities and impactful work.\nWhat you must have to be considered\nA bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, computer science, finance, analytics, or a related discipline.\n9-12 years of experience in IT vendor management, software asset management, technology demand management, license compliance, IT governance, or a related function.\nDemonstrated experience leading teams or workstreams, including goal setting, workload prioritization, coaching, performance management, conflict resolution, and delivery accountability.\nStrong understanding of software licensing models, entitlement records, deployment and usage data, subscriptions, cloud consumption, and infrastructure-related licensing concepts.\nExperience with software asset management, configuration management, IT service management, inventory, reporting, or business intelligence platforms.\nAbility to analyze large and varied data sets, reconcile records, identify trends, financial exposure, risks, and control gaps, and present decision-ready insights.\nExperience with technology spend analytics, budget planning, forecasting, allocation, variance analysis, financial modeling, and executive-level reporting.\nPractical knowledge of AI-enabled analytics, intelligent automation, and the AI-agent lifecycle, including use-case definition, workflow design, testing, deployment, governance, monitoring, and adoption.\nKnowledge of audit readiness, evidence management, data governance, policy compliance, risk assessment, and remediation tracking.\nExcellent leadership, customer service, critical thinking, decision-making, organizational, stakeholder-management, and verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex concepts to senior leaders and non-technical audiences.\nA strong sense of ownership, desire to create meaningful outcomes, and passion for work that serves a greater good for customers, communities, or global challenges.\nEmbodiment of Cognizant’s Values: Work as One, Dare to Innovate, Raise the Bar, Do The Right Thing, and Own It.\nThese will help you succeed\nStrong analytical capabilities and an ability to turn complex licensing, technology, financial, and compliance data into concise recommendations.\nExperience collaborating across technology, finance, legal, risk, cybersecurity, architecture, and business functions.\nAn ability to balance strategic priorities with detailed operational execution.\nA continuous-improvement mindset and an interest in applying AI and automation to technology governance and asset-management processes.\nStrong communication and stakeholder-management capabilities, particularly when presenting complex information to leadership and non-technical audiences.\nWork model\nWe believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a Cognizant office. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs. The hybrid wording and structure follow the corporate template.\nThe working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.\nWe're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. 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