IT Software Asset Manager - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Akkodis

Akkodis

Verified Company

Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

IT Software Asset Manager
Full Time, Permanent

Remote / Birmingham (average of 1 day a month on site)

£60,000 - £70,000 + bonus + comprehensive benefits package

The Company

My client, a large and nationally recognised building materials business is looking for a driven and experienced IT Software Asset Manager to join their internal IT team.

The Role
As the IT Software Asset Manager you will be responsible for managing and controlling the clients software assets. You will ensure an accurate and comprehensive license inventory is maintained with clear current usage and entitlements. You will act in botha detective and preventative capacity to ensure compliant IT operations. You will also oversee a small Software Asset Management team.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain an accurate record of software assets and utilisation including subscriptions and services.
Provide management reports on compliance, risks and trends requiring action.
Supply up to date knowledge and understanding of license agreements working with existing and new suppliers to assess relevance and impacts of change.
Educate users and promote licensing best practice.
Ensure licensing implications of new technologies are identified through the project pipeline are considered, risk managed and appropriate financial provisions made.
Input to the design and implementation or IT policies, methodologies, tools and standards.
Support negotiations fort license acquisition.
Lead response to external vendor license audit.
Responsible to supervision and development of a Software Asset Analyst.

Skills and Experience required

Experience in a similar IT / Software Asset Management role.
Broad knowledge and understanding of licence technicalities for major IT vendors including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM etc.
Broad expertise of corporate software license management, procurement lifecycles and best practice.
Excellent consultative and communication skills, analytical ability, decision making with the ability to work effectively across the organisation at all levels.
Detailed and analytical approach, capable of working with complex commercial information and mapping large license data sets to identify opportunities for optimising.
You will ideally be ITIL certified or trained.

Both Modis International Ltd and Modis Europe Ltd are Equal Opportunities Employers.