Associate Consultant - Software Asset Management (SAM)

GMS-Senior-SAMS-Oracle Licensing

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SAM-CONSULTANT

JOB DESCRIPTION

 

Summary

Working in a team environment, the Associate Consultant- SAM is responsible for managing customer’s licenses. The Associate Consultant will assist customers in understanding and controlling their software licensing entitlement, avoiding legal pitfalls related to licensing by leveraging industry best practices while expanding host company licensing opportunities and building more-profitable, long-term relationships with our customers.

 

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities for the Role

•  On-going support of customer’s entitlement for different publishers
•   Performing reconciliation analysis for different publishers
• Creating customized reports and comparison for cost savings
• Analyzing & consulting customer’s entitlements for multiple publishers
• Providing SAM Analysis & Recommendations
• Analyze customer's license contracts
• Analyze customer’s data – Entitlement & Inventory
• Creating Compliance Reports for the customers
• Serving as the Single Point of Contact for subsidiaries in delivery of GSDC services
•   Leading the execution of projects by managing tasks executed by supporting team members and yourself
• Creation of reports/documentation as per engagement requirements
• Active management & allocation of tasks & task type to ensure balanced workload distribution across
•  the project team
• Execution of individual tasks on projects based on the guidance provided by the Managers
• Task specific & cross service training for the associated/eligible team members
• Support the manager on managing team’s utilization
• Management of the Quality of the engagement deliverables across assigned team members & ensuring
• 100% adherence to Quality standards.
•  Accurate Completion & submission of the Quality Checklist for each task
• Ensuring 100% process adherence and delivery within the defined SLA

 

Skills Required:

• 5 years professional experience in licensing industry with successful SAM Management / software
•  licensing experience across publishers is a must
•  Understanding of different publisher licensing models
•  Copyright knowledge for software licensing
•  SAM Accreditation (good to have)
• Good in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint

 

Core Capabilities:

•  Strong Methodical skills
• Strong Analytical skills
•   Strong presentation & communication skills
•  Quality oriented personality

 

Functional Capabilities:

• Highly motivated and result oriented
• Strong organization, multitasking and time management skills
•  Solid Problem solving and consultative skills

 

Personality:

• Outstanding ability to think creatively, and identify and resolve problems
• Motivate & inspire team members
• Keen on detailing and logical reasoning
• Maintain healthy group dynamics
• Provide guidance to the team based on management direction
•  Ability to professionally interact with people of diverse cultures and regions
• Ability to juggle multiple projects/activities simultaneously
• Create an environment orientated to trust, open communication, creative thinking & cohesive team effort.
•  Recognize & celebrate team & individual accomplishments & exceptional performance
• Strong presentation, communication, organization, multitasking, and time management skills
•   Strong networking abilities

 

Keywords

 

Core:

• Oracle Software licensing Knowledge – Database, Option and Packs Understanding, Middleware and application products knowledge
• Experience with different Oracle licensing metrics (e.g., Processor, NUP, Application User, Employee User, Physical CPU Pair, Storage Device, Socket & etc.)
• Various Oracle Licensing purchase such as Perpetual, Subscription and cloud-based licensing (e.g., OCI).
• Different Licensing Model such as Full Use, Limited Use & etc.,
• Knowledge on Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
• Experience with manual Oracle ELP creation.
• Contracts and Entitlements Understanding of ULA, OLSA & etc.
• Software Reconciliation
• License optimization
• Cost optimization
• Excellent communication skills
• Eligible to lead the team

 

Good to have:

•  Experience with Oracle Licensing data collection i.e.  Scripting, coding & automation knowledge
•  Experience with Oracle data operations in Flexera Tool and ServiceNow.
• Contract Renewals
• Project Management

 

Questions

 

•  Have you prepared Oracle ELP completely manually in your current/past role? (Core)
• Do you have experience in analysing the licenses entitlements? (Core)
• Have you worked on any ITAM or Inventory? (Good to have)
• Do you have experience in analysing the data for different Oracle licensing metric apart from Processor or NUP metric? (Core)
•  Were you an Oracle licensing SME for any Oracle product in your current/past role? (Core)
•   Do you have experience in contract renewals and negotiations? (Good to have)
• Have you handled Oracle software audits in your current/past role? (Good to have)
•  Do you have operations experience for the SAM tools such as Flexera, SAM Pro, Tanium etc.? (Good to have)

 

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Experience Level

Senior Level