IT Asset Management

Responsibilities

• Interpret software license agreements and identify rules, obligations, and product metrics to ensure compliance with software license
• Understand general software Product Use Rights and contractual entitlement requirements for software products and publishers
• Collect, cleanse and normalize software and hardware discovery and inventory information
• Establish and maintain regular license management processes to review License Position Reports
• Maintain regular Hardware Asset Inventory reports to ensure inventory coverage remains high
• Assist business and technical teams by monitoring and ensuring contract compliance
• Analyze consumption history and trends to understand and support discussion with stakeholders regarding future demand
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders to verify future anticipated demand for software and hardware, translate this into budgeting/forecasting guidance for the affected software programs
• Conduct regular analysis of actual consumption of pre-purchased inventories to deployment plans
• Provide subject matter expertise to the Procurement Department in support of software license and hardware support renewal negotiations with publishers
• Support software compliance audits
• Interact with stakeholders as a promoter for Software & Hardware Asset Management compliance processes and procedures
• Collaborate Group Wide with cross-functional teams to continuously improve existing, or implement new processes, required to sustain the controls necessary to maintain software compliance.
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders to ensure all assigned assets are being fully utilized.

Technical and Professional Requirements

• 7+ years of business experience related to software and hardware asset management, IT asset management, CMDB or software procurement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience interacting with multiple stakeholders throughout the company at all levels (including senior management) and across multiple countries
• Experience interpreting license and contractual terms/conditions and analyzing purchase records.
• Experience in managing license compliance for Tier -1 publishers such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Adobe, and VMware.
• Knowledge of a variety of software licensing models and metrics
• Provide support for Tiered vendor configurations in the SAM tool.
• Working knowledge of SAM or HAM tool(s) i.e AMDB, SAM Pro, & Flexera.
• Experience with corporate wide and/or internal departmental software/hardware policy/procedure development and document preferred.
• Establish and maintain regular license management processes to review License Position Reports.
• Define and enforce policies, standards, and controls for software license compliance, usage, renewals, and provide necessary evidence for regulatory requirements.
• Support and guide the HAM team to ensure smooth execution of hardware asset governance processes.
• Continuously monitor KPIs related to SAM (technical and operational) and HAM to ensure 100% data quality.
• Familiar with discovery tools across platforms including SCCM, JAMF, and ServiceNow.
• Knowledgeable in hardware asset lifecycle management, including sustainability concepts and key KPIs to track.
• Proven track record in driving cost-saving and cost-avoidance initiatives, with reporting capabilities using Tableau, JIRA and ServiceNow Performance Analytics.

Preferred Skills

• IT Asset Lifecycle Management
• IT Asset Management
• Software inventory
• License manager
• Software metering

Educational Requirements

Master Of Engineering,Master Of Technology,MCA,Bachelor Of Engineering,Bachelor Of Technology,BCA