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The role is intentionally designed to build capability across both SAM and IT Vendor Management, enabling flexibility to support broader vendor portfolio responsibilities as business priorities evolve.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nAccountabilities\n\n Software Asset Management – Primary Responsibility\nSupport and manage end-to-end Software Asset Management activities across the software lifecycle, including procurement, entitlement, deployment, utilization, renewal, optimization, and retirement. \nMaintain and validate software inventory, licensing entitlements, subscriptions, deployments, and consumption information. \nPerform reconciliation of software entitlements against installations, deployments, subscriptions, and actual usage. \nIdentify license compliance gaps, unused or underutilized licenses, over-deployment, and software optimization opportunities. \nDrive license harvesting, reallocation, rationalization, and optimization activities in partnership with relevant stakeholders. \nMaintain accurate software product, entitlement, contract, renewal, and vendor records. \nPartner with application owners, technology teams, Procurement, Finance, and vendors to investigate and resolve licensing and inventory discrepancies. \nSupport software compliance assessments, license reviews, true-ups, and software publisher audits. \nDevelop and maintain reliable software license positions and supporting documentation. \nDrive continuous improvement of SAM processes, controls, data quality, governance, and documentation. \nWork with enterprise SAM/ITAM platforms and data sources such as Flexera/FlexNet Manager Suite, ServiceNow SAM Pro, SCCM/MECM, Intune, or equivalent tools, as applicable. \n IT Vendor Governance & Relationship Management\nSupport governance activities across strategic and preferred IT vendors and software publishers.\nCoordinate and prepare vendor governance and Strategic Business Review (SBR) discussions, including performance, commercial, risk, financial, and contractual insights.\nMaintain vendor profiles covering contracts, products/services, spend, performance, risks, renewals, commitments, and key stakeholders.\nWork with Global and Sector stakeholders to provide insights and reporting for vendor portfolio management.\nSupport onboarding of internal and external stakeholders into established vendor governance processes.\nCollaborate with stakeholders on agenda shaping and preparation to enable effective vendor governance and business reviews.\nTrack decisions, commitments, risks, issues, and action items from governance meetings and drive follow-up through closure.\nConduct relevant vendor, market, commercial, and technology research to support sourcing and Vendor Management decisions.\nIdentify opportunities for vendor consolidation, optimization, improved commercial value, and stronger operational outcomes.\n Vendor Performance Management\nTrack, analyze, and report vendor performance against contractual SLAs, KPIs, business outcomes, and agreed performance measures.\nIdentify performance trends, exceptions, recurring issues, and areas requiring management attention.\nPartner with Vendor Managers, Service Owners, and suppliers to ensure performance issues and improvement actions are appropriately tracked and driven to closure.\nSupport the definition and refinement of consistent KPIs and management reporting across the assigned vendor portfolio.\nPrepare performance insights and executive-ready reporting for leadership and stakeholder reviews.\nSupport business satisfaction measurement and incorporate relevant feedback into vendor performance discussions.\n Contract Compliance, Renewals & Sourcing Support\nMaintain visibility of software and IT vendor contracts, subscriptions, commercial commitments, key obligations, and renewal dates.\nInterpret relevant contractual and licensing terms and translate them into operational tracking and compliance requirements.\nSupport software and vendor renewal planning using consumption, utilization, performance, contractual, and spend analysis.\nPartner with Procurement and Vendor Management by providing data and insights for sourcing activities, commercial negotiations, renewals, and contract decisions.\nCoordinate stakeholder inquiries relating to contracts, licensing, entitlements, consumption, and vendor obligations.\nCoordinate contract change-management activities within the assigned portfolio, ensuring changes are documented, evaluated, tracked, and communicated.\nMonitor contractual commitments and identify potential compliance or commercial risks.\nMaintain appropriate contract documentation and evidence required for governance and audit activities.\n Vendor Financial & Consumption Management\nValidate software licensing and vendor consumption data using established processes and controls.\nVerify quantities, resource units, calculations, pricing assumptions, and applicable volume or contractual adjustments.\nAnalyze software utilization, vendor consumption, and spend trends; identify anomalies, risks, and optimization opportunities.\nIdentify opportunities for license optimization, demand management, cost avoidance, and improved commercial efficiency.\nProvide Finance with accurate inputs for budgeting, forecasting, accrual validation, financial business cases, and portfolio planning.\nSupport analysis of vendor invoices and consumption against applicable contractual and commercial information.\nDevelop actionable insights across vendor spend, utilization, consumption, and financial performance.\n Risk, Compliance & Audit Support\nSupport compliance reviews associated with software licensing and IT vendors.\nCoordinate preparation of entitlement, deployment, usage, contract, and supporting evidence for software publisher audits and internal control reviews.\nMaintain appropriate documentation and audit trails for key SAM and Vendor Management activities.\nPartner with IT Controls, Information Security, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and Technology stakeholders as required to address vendor and software-related risks.\nTrack identified issues, risks, and remediation actions through closure.\nSupport broader third-party/vendor risk and compliance activities based on portfolio requirements.\n Reporting, Analytics & Power BI\nDevelop and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and supporting data models for SAM and Vendor Management.\nProvide reporting across software entitlement and consumption, license utilization and optimization, renewals, software/vendor spend, contract milestones, vendor SLA/KPI performance, risk, compliance, and action tracking.\nAnalyze complex data from multiple sources and translate it into clear, actionable business and commercial insights.\nImplement appropriate data-quality checks, controls, and repeatable reporting processes.\nPrepare executive-ready reporting and insights for senior stakeholders and vendor governance forums.\n\nQualifications\n\nKey Skills / Experience Required\n\nBachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.\n8–12 years of overall professional experience across Software Asset Management, IT Asset Management, IT Vendor Management, Technology Procurement, Contract Management, or related technology/commercial functions.\nStrong hands-on experience in Software Asset Management, including entitlement management, license reconciliation, software consumption analysis, compliance, optimization, and renewals.\nExperience working with enterprise SAM/ITAM platforms such as Flexera/FlexNet Manager Suite, ServiceNow SAM Pro, or equivalent tools.\nGood understanding of enterprise software licensing and subscription models, with exposure to major publishers such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, Adobe, VMware/Broadcom, Salesforce, or similar vendors preferred.\nExperience supporting software contract renewals, license true-ups, compliance reviews, and software publisher audits.\nExperience analyzing software spend, utilization, entitlement, consumption, and contractual data to identify optimization and cost-avoidance opportunities.\nExperience in broader IT Vendor Management, including vendor governance, SLA/KPI performance management, contract compliance, financial management, risk management, and vendor relationship management.\nExperience coordinating vendor governance or business reviews, preparing performance insights, identifying risks/issues, and driving actions to closure.\nStrong experience with Power BI, Excel, data analysis, visualization, and executive-level reporting.\nDemonstrated ability to manage multiple vendors, global stakeholders, priorities, and deliverables in a complex environment.\nAbility to interpret complex commercial and licensing information and translate it into clear, actionable recommendations.\n\nTechnical Skills\n\nStrong understanding of Software Asset Management (SAM) and IT Asset Management (ITAM) concepts and practices.\nKnowledge of software licensing, entitlements, 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