Description
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 Managemen

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