Software Asset Management (SAM) Optimization Lead

Job title: Software Asset Management (SAM) Optimization Lead

Company: MSD


Job description: Job DescriptionThe PositionThis position operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities through the efficient management of software products. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that enables the commercialization of our medicines, vaccines, and Animal Health products.The SAM Optimization Lead will be part of the center led Software Asset Management Service to ensure compliant, cost effective and efficient utilization of software in partnerships with Software Owners across our company. You will manage overall supplier relations, compliance with contractual licensing models and provide inputs to find optimization opportunities. This position consists also a team management. It acts as the key liaison with internal stakeholders to ensure the alignment and maturity development of overall SAM capabilities within the enterprise. Further, this role provides an initial point of escalation point for any issues that arise from day-to-day management of the SAM service, including, but limited to, prioritizing the analyst team’s activities.What will you do?

• Ensures that the software asset inventory is maintained at optimal levels against contract terms and conditions.
• Accountable for understanding and communicating information about software license models and license related terms.
• Identifies software upgrade opportunities and forecasts future software usage and support needs.
• Standardizes software contracts for volume, service level, and maintenance.
• Reviews existing contract terms and conditions for improvement areas, as well as changes in vendor licensing or other market factors.
• Provides advisory services to various business units on how software licensing impacts projects and operations.
• Identifies opportunities for volume license purchasing to reduce costs and maximize software spend.
• Understands and can articulate how various software products fit into our company’s IT environment and whether alternative products exist or should be explored.
• Perform preliminary risk-based review of vendor on-boarding requests to determine if agreement requires legal review.
• Updates and maintains ITAM policies and procedures.
• Ability to drive conversations with IT stakeholder to establish and understanding of the software product, it’s usage, availability of deployment information, or additional resources that will need to be leveraged to appropriately capture deployment information.
• Support the coordination of IT and Business stakeholders to confirm the completeness and accuracy of entitlement information for a given vendor.
• Review and analyze software contract and purchase data to support the delivery of “Effective License Position(s)” and onboarding into a ITAM tool.
• Manage the development and distribution of software vendor and product specific data requests to ensure license positions are complete and accurate.
• Drive the collection and analysis of additional software deployment and usage information to support ELP creation.
• Leverage industry, vendor, and general IT knowledge to identify cost savings and avoidance opportunities for selected vendors based on available information.
• Monitor for and supports the response to internal and external software license compliance or other assessments (e.g., audits).

Qualifications, Skills & Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in related technical field such as IT, Finance, Business, Engineering or similar.
• 5-7 Years of Technology Asset Management (TAM), Software Asset Management (SAM), or Software License Compliance (SLC) Experience.
• Project Management Certified such PMP, CAPM etc. preferred.
• Experience managing supplier relationships and expertise in using SAM tools or systems.
• Deep understanding of licensing mechanisms and contracts, including interpreting licensing product use rights.
• Deep understanding of Software Asset Management lifecycle processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Detail oriented self-starter individual.
• Understanding of common IT management systems.

What we offer:

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g., even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system plus referral programme
• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and Mall.cz discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner
• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

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Location: Praha

Job date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:11:31 GMT

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