Job Title: Director - Software Asset Management (SAM)
GCL: F
Introduction to role:
Are you prepared to guide a global Software Asset Management capability that protects compliance, unlocks value and fuels a data-led, patient-focused enterprise? As Director, Software Asset Management, you will set the strategy and run the end-to-end software governance that keeps our business audit-ready, cost-optimized and primed to scale. Your decisions will help our scientists and teams access the right tools at the right time, so we can bring life-changing medicines to patients faster.
You will report to the Director of Service Asset and Configuration Management and lead a worldwide dispersed team. Partnering closely with sourcing, legal affairs, information security, enterprise architecture, finance and business-aligned technology groups, you will represent AstraZeneca with strategic software publishers and SAM tooling partners. Can you imagine shaping enterprise agreements and standards that save millions, reduce risk and empower thousands of colleagues—while building an energized,



high-performing team?
Accountabilities:
Strategy, Governance and Compliance: Lead the global SAM strategy, policy, processes, standards and governance to ensure consistent, enterprise-wide compliance and reporting. Serve as the named control owner for software licence compliance, maintaining a continuous state of audit readiness and leading all vendor audits and internal assessments through to successful closure. Define and govern the full software lifecycle—from request and procurement, through entitlement, deployment and usage, to true-up, reallocation and retirement—ensuring a seamless AZ Software Store experience.
Value, Optimisation and FinOps: Drive measurable cost optimization and value realization from strategic enterprise agreements. Partner with Procurement and Finance to inform renewals, true-ups and rationalization, turning insights into budget decisions. Monitor and report consumption ve

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