IT Software License Compliance and Optimisation Manager, Central Business Services

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

Job description

Connect to your Industry

Your role primarily centers on overseeing and optimizing software license management across a large and complex software estate (1200+ application families). This includes ensuring licensing compliance, the active management of license data accuracy, opportunities for simplification of our licensing position and license optimisation opportunities to drive value for money where appropriate.

We seek a highly organised individual with proven experience in software asset management, specifically licence entitlement and compliance management. Strong interpersonal skills and a process-driven approach, including the ability to implement new working practices, are essential. Experience dealing with large software vendors and complex licensing arrangements would be ideal, as would experience with SLM/SAM Pro.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements, that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibilities, please do discuss it with us.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

We have a highly unique Software Asset Management opportunity with the chance to work with the latest technology, encouraging innovation while developing best practices to meet the extensive demand from all our UK and Switzerland businesses. This role is far more than licence compliance, it is about driving maximum value against an ever-increasing complex licence modelling environment while leading the collaboration with our IT supporting areas and key business teams to ensure cost optimisation.

You will need to both deliver to agreed targets and drive a continuous improvement culture in:

• Overseeing the continued development and oversight of Software License Management processes and procedures while maintaining licensing compliance and optimizing software utilization across 1200+ software application families.
• Leading the oversight/analysis of a large volume of software entitlement and deployment data, ensuring licencing accuracy.
• Development of our license management tooling to support strategic direction.
• Reporting compliance and spend across software estate both internally to IT stakeholders and to the business.
• Collaboration with internal software asset management teams and across the wider IT operations and security spaces.
• Identifying and implementing a range of cost saving/avoidance initiatives (including tail spend management).

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Essentials

• Strong understanding of software licencing models
• Experience in a similar role at a large organisation (c30,000 employees)
• Extensive experience with Software Asset Management software and tools (such as SNOW and ServiceNow, CMDB, including licencing optimisation)
• Advising on best practice to optimise existing software assets while reducing cost, commercial, reputational and regulatory risk
• Experience of managing relationships with value added resellers
• Ability to lead the oversight and impact assessment of vendor EULA/terms of use
• Experience of working with global stakeholders
• Coordination of software license and maintenance agreement reviews
• Management and successful conclusion of software audits and any remediation plans

Desirables

• Working knowledge of ITIL v3 and ISO 19770 and/or SAM or equivalent certifications such as CSAM or equivalent
• Experience working with desktop, VDI, server and SaaS platforms
• Strong project management, planning, and organizational abilities
• Develop dashboards and reporting to support strategic decision making, cost optimization and risk management

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Central business services

We deliver world-class business support services for our people, our clients and our firm. From HR services, technology and digital support and pensions to facilities management, and more - together we are a true enabler for better business.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"Deloitte's a large, complex and fast-paced organisation but it's open to new ideas. Everyone is encouraged to show initiative and challenge the norm." - Lisa, Enabling Functions

"The amount of investment in me in terms of training and development has been incredible - it has undoubtedly helped me to progress my career." - Jim, Enabling Functions

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in UK Wide with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

RTWPROG WPFULL SLICSS BASHSE LOCOFFICE