{"id":3155998,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sainsburys-software-asset-management-analyst","title":"Software Asset Management Analyst","company":{"id":2631165,"name":"Sainsbury's","domain":"sainsburys.jobs","url":"https://alion.io/company/sainsburys-jobs","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":null},"role":"Analytics","role_family":"Analytics","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":49000,"max_usd":102000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":232},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ITIL","optional":false},{"name":"ServiceNow","optional":false},{"name":"VMWare","optional":false},{"name":"Windows","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"ITSM","optional":true},{"name":"Scrum","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-23T13:53:55Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-23","last_verified_at":"2026-10-26T03:33:41Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Software Asset Management Analyst (C4)\nDivision/Department\nSainsburys Tech - Service Operations - Asset Management\nLocation\nCoventry or London Store Support Centre & Home Based\nReporting to\nSAM Manager\nIn a nutshell\nThe SAM Analyst role is part of the Supplier Management team in the wider Business Transformation division and reports into SAM Manager.As a member of the Software Asset Management (SAM) team you’ll be supporting the day-to-day running of the team and contributing to activities to improve software asset management across the business.\nThe primary responsibility of the role is to control software licenses, making sure they are utilised and optimised as per agreed practices or binding contracts and that we remain legally compliant. You’ll plan, lead and co-ordinate your own area of assigned publishers while collectively making sure the team’s business as usual activity is being covered. It requires close business partnership with the Procurement, Software Deployment and Packaging, Engineering teams, and also with other departments across the business including Sainsbury’s Tech.\nYou’ll be required to navigate the complexity and challenges that come with delivering at pace and build strong relationships with colleagues within the team and across the organisation - always keeping in mind SAM principles. Enable senior stakeholders to make data driven decisions around their software investments by providing them with credible SAM analyses.\nWhat I am accountable for\nRespond and resolve licensing queries from colleagues across the Sainsbury’s group.\nCreate and maintain licence entitlement records and associated data sets, ensuring it’s kept accurate and up to date.\nProvide credible SAM analysis to senior stakeholders to enable them to make data driven decisions around their software investments.\nCreate ELPs (Effective License Positions) for the software vendors you’re accountable for\nBe a subject matter expert on the publishers you’re allocated \nInvestigate exceptions and errors generated by SAM tools and automated processes, working collaboratively with colleagues (where required) to address them.\nProvide accurate, qualified data and information to other teams e.g. procurement, supplier management etc.\nYou’ll partner with business and tech teams and key stakeholders to support the delivery of complex projects that have an impact on software. \nWork with and advise our Sainsbury’s Tech colleagues on their programmes of work as required i.e. Windows 10.\nSet objectives and contribute towards strategic development plans, whilst ensuring team objectives are understood and met.\nSupport the identification and implementation of SAM initiatives \nMaintain a customer and retail focused lens, throughout decision making processes.\nSupport and guide junior members of the team and SAM admins in their queries \nAccountable for ongoing and continuous commitment to personal and professional development by maintaining a personal development plan, regularly seeking and providing feedback and supporting other colleagues in their personal development, sharing knowledge and coaching where required\nLiaise regularly with Subject Matter Experts to maximise knowledge. \nWhat I need to know\nEssential\nAbility to analyse large data sets and apply repeatable methods to process the data ready for consumption.\nBusiness and supplier partnership, stakeholder management and cross-functional working\n\nA self-motivator, someone who keeps their knowledge of changes in the IT industry and vendor/ publisher licensing up to date.\nDemonstrate drive and curiosity to taking initiative to identify if there is a better way to do something \nAbility to problem solve and provide workable options to address any issues and potential risks presented to the group.\nGood commercial knowledge, always looking to deliver the best outcome for Sainsbury’s colleagues, customers and shareholders\nStrong attention to detail and be able to decipher contractual text and correctly determine how it applies to Sainsbury’s.\nEffective communicator - understands the importance of and can build a strong network around the business.\n\nBusiness and commercial acumen and strong analytical capability to generate, manipulate & interrogate data to perform accurate root cause analysis and generate insights & trends\n\nFamiliarity with ITIL practices \nCertified ITIL4 Foundation\nSoftware Asset Management Fundamentals or equivalent \nKnowledge of common software publisher licensing frameworks i.e. Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, VMware.\nProficiency and experience with one License Management tool on the market (examples: USU Aspera, ServiceNow SAMPro, Flexera, Snow)\nDesirable\nWhat I need to show\nOur Valued Behaviours are our common DNA that every colleague should live by and provide the benchmark for how we deliver our goals/individual contribution, and how we relate to other colleagues in the organisation.\nOwn it\nDeliver a wide range of tasks, and take ownership for solving problems that you identify\n\nActively share your thoughts and are prepared to challenge others in a positive way\n\nUse business context and other information sources to make decisions\n\nRegularly review your goals with your line manager\n\nMake it better\nOpen minded and try new ways of doing things, making things simpler where possible\n\nAdaptable and respond positively when circumstances change\n\nShow curiosity about the business beyond your immediate role\n\nSeek feedback from those you work with and understand your strengths and development areas\n\nProvide regular fair and accurate feedback to others\n\nBe human\nAsk questions to understand where others are coming from. Show care and respect for how others are feeling and provide support to those around you\n\nListen and ask questions about the needs and motivations of others to build effective relationships\n\nRegularly gather customer feedback and use this insight to continuously improve the customer experience\n\nA self-motivator able to work under supervision and with established processes.\nAbility to work collaboratively within a team environment.\nDemonstrate drive and curiosity to taking initiative to identify if there is a better way to do something \nOrganisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.\nAbility to identify issues and escalate them through the appropriate channels.\nSupport we will provide\nSystem and process training\nAccess to personal development tools e.g. Learning and Online Self-Development tools.\n\nSuitable training in ServiceNow (ITSM) & Asset Management\n\nMentoring & Line Management Support\nProcesses and System Training (as required)\nFlexible working policy\nSupplier Contract Upskilling\n\nAsset Management certifications (if applicable)\n We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech. We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:\nStarting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.\nYour wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.\nMoments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.\nPlease see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).","description_format":"text","description_chars":9068,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Asset Management & Funds","Transportation & Logistics","Logistics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-23T14:31:56Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":19,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sainsburys-software-asset-management-analyst","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sainsburys-software-asset-management-analyst.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T07:33:46Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":10075,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2631165},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2631165"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsainsburys-software-asset-management-analyst"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsainsburys-software-asset-management-analyst"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsainsburys-software-asset-management-analyst"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sainsburys-software-asset-management-analyst\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsainsburys-software-asset-management-analyst"}]}