Responsibilities:

* Own effective license position analysis for major publishers and
strategically significant software portfolios.
* Act as the primary escalation point for complex licensing, compliance, and
tool-related issues within the SAM team.
* Interpret software agreements, product terms, maintenance rights,
subscription terms, and usage rights to assess compliance position and
financial exposure.
* Lead complex reconciliation activities across discovery, inventory,
entitlements, contract data, and operational deployment records.
* Drive optimization initiatives such as license harvesting, reallocation,
standardization, rationalization support, and contract consolidation
analysis.
* Support internal and external audit response activities, including evidence
development, data validation, issue analysis, and remediation planning.
* Establish and maintain authoritative Effective License Positions (ELPs) for
Top Tier publishers; lead audit defense strategy, including evidence
validation, negotiation support, and legal coordination.




* Define and enforce SaaS and cloud governance models, including provisioning
controls, usage metering, license mobility, and cost optimization strategies.
* Develop executive-ready dashboards and reporting on compliance risk, renewal
exposure, optimization opportunities, and savings realized.
* Serve as a point of contact for procurement, finance, legal, cloud,
infrastructure, and service teams on software governance matters.
* Assist in complex vendor negotiations and renewal strategies, including
contract consolidation, pricing optimization, and risk mitigation.
* Provide training, knowledge sharing, and best practice guidance to team
members to elevate overall SAM program capability.
* Mentor and help refine operational standards, playbooks, and quality
controls.

Requirements:

* Mandatory Experience with major enterprise SAM/ITAM platform (Flexera).
* Stronge experience in Software Asset Management, IT Asset Management,
procure

📌 Software Asset Management Analyst (India)
🏢 NOV
📍 India