- 4+ years of experience in IT Asset Management or Software Asset Management.
- Strong experience with SAM pro development.
- Strong knowledge of software licensing models (perpetual, subscription, SaaS, cloud-based).
- Understanding of ITIL and IT Asset Management best practices.
- Analytical skills with attention to detail in license reconciliation and data accuracy.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- ITAM/SAM certifications (e.g., IAITAM CSAM, ServiceNow SAM Pro, ITIL) preferred.
Key Responsibilities
Software License Management:
- Ensure compliance with software licensing agreements, interpret license terms, and maintain accurate records of software entitlements and usage.
- Build and manage complex licensing models and optimize our license usage based on key license drivers (headcount, volume)
- Must be able to configure licenses and related details in SAM PRO tool.
- Establish and maintain a comprehensive inventory of all software assets and their components to ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Provide support to establish governance for purchase and renewal process.
- Manage software asset lifecycle across endpoints, infrastructure, SaaS, and cloud platforms.
- Ensure data accuracy and completeness across software inventory and reconcile against vendor agreements
- Operate ServiceNow SAM Pro and SAM Workspace, including entitlement creation, license compliance, reclamation, model normalization, catalog set up and maintenance, and workflow administration
License Configuration Support
- Manage and maintain over 200 license servers to ensure high availability and operational continuity.
- Validate license configurations in virtual environments prior to deployment. o
- Support a wide range of license managers including Flexnet, FlexLM, Sentinel RMS/Hasp, Codemeter, Ansys LM, PTC LM, Reprise, and Dassault.
- Maintain USB dongle infrastructure and diverse license platforms to meet enterprise needs. o Ensure license compliance through entitlement validation and regular audits
Audit Support:
Prepare for and support internal and external software vendor license compliance audits by providing necessary documentation and data.
Reporting & Data Analysis:
Generate and present regular reports on software asset status, compliance, and budgetary data to stakeholders and senior management.
Purchase & Renewal Governance
o Review IT purchase and renewal requests in alignment with ServiceNow contract systems. o
o Collaborate with product owners and SAM teams to identify cost-saving opportunities through license consolidation, reclamation, or migration to subscription/cloud models.
o Provide strategic recommendations based on compliance, usage, and financial insights.
Integration:
Work with other IT teams (e.g., SCCM, Intune) to ensure effective software deployment, management, and tracking.
Key Points from Hiring manager :
SAM PRO :
- Person must have experience in SAM PRO configuration / Modifications or who worked as SAM PRO developer
- Person who has experience in Implement and maintains software entitlement, normalization processes using Software content service
- Configure Publisher Packs (Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, IBM, etc.) for license metric tracking and reconciliation.
- Build custom dashboards and compliance reports for software usage, entitlement, and optimization.
- Develop and automate software reclamation workflows
- Configure Reconciliation Rules, License Metrics, and Entitlement Normalization logic
- Load entitlements into SAM Pro using bulk upload templates
- Implementation of License Compliance & Reconciliation within SAM PRO module
- Experience in loading/configuring publisher packs (Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, IBM) within SAM PRO module
- Hands-on expertise in Flow Designer, Catalog Builder, Business Rules, Script Includes, and UI Policies
Here are few things that could be handy while shortlisting candidate for our SAM PRO role :
- Candidate must be well verse or worked on Software normalization
- Candidate must have working knowledge of how to do reconciliation and dashboard creation or modification
- Candidate must have working knowledge of Software model mapping , Entitlement rights and can plan publisher onboarding sequence.