Assistant Licensing Manager

Role: Assistant Licensing Manager
Location: Salisbury - hybrid
Duration: 6 months
Clearance: SC
Pay: Max £500 pd inside IR35
About the role

• Assist with the support and configuration process, documents and underpinning repositories such as the Licence Management Database (LMDB) and Electronic Definitive Media Library (eDML)
• Day-to-day inventory of software licences across the estate, as well as methods of data capture/collection.
• Reconciling software licence information, installed/consumed against actual entitlement or capacity to establish the software compliance position of the client
• Advising and informing Enterprise agreement strategy, negotiation and renewals
• Tracking Software and Hardware maintenance agreements to ensure renewals are managed efficiently and effectively in order to support Procurement and Supplier management functions
• Providing accurate reports in a timely manner to facilitate licence utilisation, be able to analyse reports in order to increase/reduce licensing and support coverage
• Assist with the monitoring, status accounting and auditing of all Application Licence Assets (ALA)
• Assist with increasing quality and availability of licences to the customer
• To provide advice and answer ad-hoc enquiries from stakeholders
• Assist the SACM process owner with implementation of and ongoing improvements to asset and licence management procedures
• Assist with the development of service improvements for licence tracking and SA data capture and usability
• Liaise with projects giving advice and support during project start up ensuring software licensing is correctly identified for a smooth transition into service
• Ensure and assist with the validation of all Software registers and Licence databases
• Assist with Business Continuity activities/incidents, providing advice on Licence management
• Assist with the provision of accurate and timely reporting of licence status and related services
• Support licence management and compliance across the IS estate including; methods of data capture/collection
• Assist the Licensing and Compliance Manager with licence content within the Definitive Media Library (DML) ensuring that the information stored is accurate, concise and complete
• Carry out the day-to-day administration duties of the SAM team

Desirable Qualification, Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Worked in a Software Asset Management Environment
ITIL v3 or 4 Foundation
Certified Software Asset Manager
Microsoft Certified Professional