In this role you act as the senior expert for complex software licensing within a strategic customer environment. You will align licensing knowledge with governance and service delivery to cut risk and drive cost efficiency. You’ll influence senior stakeholders, shape recommendations, and uplift the team’s capability. The role offers impact across transformations, cloud, and vendor governance, with a strong emphasis on automation and better decision-making.
Responsibilities
Own complex software licensing, compliance, and financial programme matters
Support major-vendor renewals and optimise licence positions across vendors (Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Adobe, Veritas)
Translate licence data into actionable recommendations for customers and stakeholders
Identify cost savings, avoidance, demand reduction and licence harvesting opportunities
Assist budgets, forecasts, renewals, and finance reporting with accurate reflectivity
Leverage Snow or equivalent tooling to enhance analysis and reporting
Assess licensing impacts across transformation, data-centre, cloud, migration and upgrades (Azure cost)
Represent Software Asset Management in governance and escalation processes
Lead service improvements through controls, automation, AI, and reusable standards
Set priorities, mentor analysts and ensure quality delivery
Key requirements
Substantial experience in Software Licence Management or closely related tech-commercial role
Strong knowledge of major-vendor licensing with depth in at least two vendors (Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Adobe, Veritas)
Proven track record in complex licence analysis, renewals, audits or optimisation
Experience assessing licensing implications across projects, migrations, cloud adoption and architecture changes
Working knowledge of Snow or equivalent tooling, discovery, entitlements, reconciliation, metering and reharvesting
Ability to interpret contracts and financial data and explain impact
Confidence engaging with senior stakeholders across customer, technical, Finance, Commercial and vendors
Experience leading or developing analysts and ensuring high-quality service delivery
Calm, accountable, hands-on approach with strong documentation and relationship-building
Security clearance or ability to obtain/maintain clearance
Advantageous: certifications in Software Licence Management, IT service management, cloud, FinOps; Azure cost management, Power BI, workflow automation or managed services
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