Job Title: Software Asset Management (SAM) & Vendor Manager

Job Location: Chennai, India

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The role ensures license compliance, cost optimisation, vendor control, and audit‑ready governance, working in close partnership with Procurement for commercial execution.

What will you do?
- Software Asset Management (SAM)
- Maintain the single authoritative software inventory covering:
- Engineering & BIM tools (Autodesk, Bentley, Trimble)
- Project Controls (Primavera P6, MS Project, Procore)
- Microsoft 365 and Power Platform
- SAP ERP (S/4HANA, ARIBA)
- Track entitlements, usage, renewals, contracts, hosting models, and ownership
- Ensure compliance across SaaS, subscription, and on‑prem licensing
- Act as the data authority for all software asset records

Cost Optimisation & Rationalisation
- Identify under‑utilisation, duplication, and overlapping tools
- Solution Architects
- Application / Product Owners




- Support consolidation to strategic platforms and retirement of legacy tools
- Provide usage‑based inputs to reduce run and subscription costs

Vendor Management (IT Ownership)
- Own IT‑side vendor governance, including:
- Vendor performance tracking
- Dependency and lock‑in risk assessment
- Act as IT's primary interface with vendors on portfolio and usage matters
- Prevent shadow IT and unmanaged vendor relationships

Procurement Partnership (Clear Boundary)
- Work closely with Procurement with transparent ownership split:
- IT owns: tool fit, usage, lifecycle, renewals validation, risk
- Procurement owns: negotiations, contracts, POs, commercials
- Provide Procurement with accurate renewal, usage, and consolidation data
- Ensure no renewals occur without IT validation

ERP, SaaS & AI Licence Governance
- Govern licenses and vendors across ERP and support‑function tools Support ERP transitions (Oracl

📌 Software Asset Management (Chennai)
🏢 AtkinsRéalis
📍 Chennai