Portfolio Manager - Software Asset Management

SoftwareOne is a leading global software and cloud solutions provider that is redefining how companies build, buy and handle everything in the cloud. By helping clients to migrate and modernize their workloads and applications – and in parallel, to navigate and optimize the resulting software and cloud changes – SoftwareOne unlocks the value of technology. The company’s 8,900 employees are driven to deliver a portfolio of 7,500 software brands with sales and delivery capabilities in 90 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, SoftwareOne is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker symbol SWON. Visit us at https://www.softwareone.com/en

Portolio Manager for SAM has below responsibilites.

• New Software/Subscription Procurement
• Rightsizing Solution
• Prerequisites For Deployment
• Commercial Implications & TCO
• Check Existing License Pool
• Recommend Deployment
• Confirm Deployment done as per recommendation.
• Subscription Management - Ensuring subscription renewals done prior to expiry date and are renewed at the right level, include the right options and are done based on needs.
• Operational Reporting - Reporting on software/subscription applications on usage, costing, inventorying, maintenance expiry and compliance.
• Compliance Management - Working with internal stakeholders to ensure deployment of software applications are compliant and if not, working with the stakeholders to remediate any non-compliance.
• Demand Management / Collation  - Collating demand from various stakeholders/functional groups within customer organization to collate similar product requirements for the purpose of ordering sufficient licenses to meet demand and also leverage on volume discounts .
• Budget Management - Propose and own a specific budget amount for the purpose of BAU software license & subscription renewals. Portfolio Manager will be responsible for utilization of this budget.
• Vendor Payment Management  - Ensuring publishers/resellers are paid correct amounts and within a given timeframe.
• Virtualization Management  - Ensuring virtualized environments are licensed compliantly, in the most cost effective manner and also recommending options where available.
• Periodic/Ad-hoc stakeholder meetings
• License Advisory - Providing advisory internal stakeholders on how they should deploy/license software.
• Service Now Requests and Incident Management
• Liaise with functional workgroups within SoftwareOne and with various functions workgroups within customer organization.

• 5-10 years of minimum professional experience in licensing industry with successful SAM Management / software licensing experience across publishers.
• Excellent Command Of English (Written & Spoken)
• Ability To Work Independently With Minimal Direction
• Software Asset Management (SAM) Licensing Knowledge
• Ability to interact / sell ideas to with various levels of partners i.e. Operational to Senior Management
• Good understanding of virtualized environments, active directory/SCCM
• Experience using ServiceNow Request Management Tool
• Flexera tool experience.
• Customer Facing Experience Mandatory.