Business System Consultant

Optum; Hyderabad, Gurugram District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum is seeking a Software Asset Management (SAM) professional to support and protect UHG from software vendor audits, compliance risks, and overspending on licenses. The role focuses on implementing automation to enhance capabilities across the UHG enterprise and thrives in ambiguous environments.

The candidate will analyze large data sets, collaborate with procurement and IT teams, and manage license entitlements while driving process optimization through Flexera and related tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT experience with steadily increasing responsibilities.
• Experience with Software Asset Management policies and practices is an advantage.
• Advanced Excel skills preferred.
• Experience with SAM tool Flexera One preferred.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large data sets related to software installation, hardware configuration, procurement, financials and license entitlements.
• Build strong relationships with IT departments to ensure software discovery and reporting meets requirements.
• Manage and process software request tickets.
• Enter license entitlements into the SAM Repository (Flexera).
• Communicate project status to senior leadership.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Collaboration

Negotiation

Influencing skills

Education

Graduate degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Flexera One

Job description

As a member of the SAM(Software Asset Management) team, you will apply your knowledge and experiences in managing the Software Licensing by supporting and protecting UHG from Software Vendors audits, compliance and regulatory risks, and overspending on Software Licenses.

This is a growing program at Optum, and the candidate will be focused on improving on current capabilities by implementing previously unseen automation opportunities at Optum to help achieve process optimization across the UHG enterprise. The ideal candidate is driven, and strives in ambiguous, often undefined environments, creating their own path where necessary.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyze large sets of Data related to software installation, Hardware configuration, procurement, Financial and License Entitlement.
• Builds Strong working relationships with other IT departments, including but not limited to, Support & services, Procurement, IT Architecture teams to ensure software discovery and reporting meets requirements.
• Manages and works software request tickets.
• Enters License Entitlements records into the SAM Repository(Flexera).
• Communicate status of various projects to senior leadership

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional IT experience, with steadily increasing responsibilities
• Any experience in or exposure to Software Asset Management policies and practices is an Advantage.
• Advanced Excel Skills Preferred
• Experience of working on any of the SAM tools Flexera One is preferred.
• Excellent collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills

Qualifications - External

Graduate degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graduate Degree or equivalent work experience
• Exposure working in Highly matrixed teams and/or managing IT Projects, initiatives, and deliverables
• Health Care industry or Fortune 100 size company & complexity experience
• Experience with hardware and software provisioning, procurement, contract interpretation and or compliance policies and processes is an added advantage.
• International experience a plus