Software Asset Management Lead Plymouth, England
Job description
Software Asset Management Lead
EDF have an exciting opportunity for a Software Asset Management Lead to join our SAM team. This is a 12 month maternity cover which is likely to increase to 15 months.
The Opportunity…
The Software Asset Management (SAM) Team plays a critical role within Enterprise IT - managing and delivering the policy controls, process, system and activities targeted at ensuring that software used or deployed at EDF Energy is optimally deployed and compliant with all legal requirements. The Software Asset Management Lead will report directly to the Commercial Manager.
You will be responsible for supporting the Commercial Manager assuring EDF Energy’s effective License position across the estate of 59,000 Assets including license records across 1673 software products – establishing the master record of EDF Energy software entitlement and usage within the License Manager & ServiceNow SaaS Module databases. They will act as a key advisor on EDF Energy’s software licensing.
Pay, benefits and culture
Alongside a starting salary of £52,000, potential to earn 5% bonus, 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.
Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts and employee pricing.
Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we’ll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively. You will be working from home the majority of the time however you will be required to travel to either our office in Plymouth, Gloucester or London for ad hoc team meetings.
Ollie Stygall, from the SAM team says: “The SAM team is a small, but perfectly formed, tight knit unit that covers all aspects of software management within Enterprise IT. The estate’s software value is approximately £80 million and the team’s remit runs the gamut from day-to-day software purchases, ensuring version compliance and that all versions are up to date, support and maintenance contract renewals to name but a few. The team enjoys a close working relationship with the rest of the Commercial team as well as stakeholders across the business and external suppliers. Although the SAM team works primarily from home, it maintains a very close working relationship within the team, communicating regularly for both work matters and sometimes just to chat, fully embracing the EIT philosophy that EDF should be a fun place to work.”
At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.
We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.
What you’ll be doing
Two direct reports (SAM analysts) with direct decision making rights over the team’s priorities- To be responsible in managing all software Licenses across the EDFE estate of 59,000 assets (34,000 Devices & 25,000 Users) with 162,038,519 License Entitlement records to manage within License Manager.
- SAM Lead will facilitate the business’ needs for ongoing technical support and upgrade protection by ensuring that maintenance, support and upgrade protection renewals are managed/handled/ordered in advance of their expiration.
- The software estate has annual support and maintenance renewal value of £26.3m, across 300 Vendors, including four Tier 1 Vendors: Microsoft, IBM, Oracle & SAP & 140 Tier 2 Vendors each requiring support.
- The SAM Lead will manage contracts and relationships with Vendors and Reseller to maximize value and costs for software Licensing, maintenance, and service offerings with each of these Vendors.
- To own and be a key interface for all vendor software audits collaborating with Supply Chain and understand and acknowledge the financial risk (circa £30m) to EDFE regarding non-compliant software resulting from audit.
- Effectively communicate through email, group meetings, and presentations to end users, management, developers, and vendors.
Who you are
Good understanding of licence metrics particularly relating to Oracle and Microsoft.- A good knowledge of software License models and the principles of software compliance and optimisation.
- Previous experience using ServiceNow and SAM Pro
- Commercially astute, with excellent supplier management, communication, negotiation and conferencing skills.
- Good coaching, development and presentation skills with the ability to adapt communication style and mediums as required.
- Good stakeholder management skills, with the ability to create strong relationships with other IT functions and as required with business representatives and external bodies.
- A good understanding of digital software service management and the IT infrastructure landscape & topology.
- Identifies and manages risks
- Well developed, awareness and understanding of service models, supporting technology and strategic direction.
- A working knowledge of SAM toolsets and processes.
It is a requirement of this role that the post-holder either currently holds or can obtain and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you!
Closing date for applications: 11th July 2023
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