# Software Asset Management Analyst

**Company**: Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd
**Location**: London, Greater London
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive Plus Benefits
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Software Asset Management Analyst to join our team in Sainsbury's Tech – Service Operations – Asset Management. As a Software Asset Management Analyst, you will be responsible for controlling software licenses, ensuring they are utilised and optimised as per agreed practices or binding contracts, and that we remain legally compliant.

Responsibilities:

- Respond and resolve licensing queries from colleagues across the Sainsbury's group.

- Create and maintain licence entitlement records and associated data sets, ensuring it's kept accurate and up to date.

- Provide credible SAM analysis to senior stakeholders to enable them to make data-driven decisions around their software investments.

- Create ELPs (Effective License Positions) for the software vendors you're accountable for.

- Be a subject matter expert on the publishers you're allocated.

- Investigate exceptions and errors generated by SAM tools and automated processes, working collaboratively with colleagues to address them.

- Provide accurate, qualified data and information to other teams.

- Partner with business and tech teams and key stakeholders to support the delivery of complex projects that have an impact on software.

- Work with and advise our Sainsbury's Tech colleagues on their programmes of work as required.

- Set objectives and contribute towards strategic development plans, whilst ensuring team objectives are understood and met.

- Support the identification and implementation of SAM initiatives.

- Maintain a customer and retail-focused lens, throughout decision-making processes.

- Support and guide junior members of the team and SAM admins in their queries.

- Accountable for ongoing and continuous commitment to personal and professional development.

Requirements:

- Ability to analyse large data sets and apply repeatable methods to process the data.

- Business and supplier partnership, stakeholder management, and cross-functional working.

- Self-motivated, with up-to-date knowledge of changes in the IT industry and vendor/publisher licensing.

- Demonstrable drive and curiosity to take initiative to identify if there is a better way to do something.

- Ability to problem-solve and provide workable options to address any issues and potential risks.

- Good commercial knowledge, always looking to deliver the best outcome for Sainsbury's colleagues, customers, and shareholders.

- Strong attention to detail and ability to decipher contractual text.

- Effective communicator with strong analytical capability.

- Familiarity with ITIL practices.

- Certified ITIL4 Foundation.

- Software Asset Management Fundamentals or equivalent.

- Knowledge of common software publisher licensing frameworks.

- Proficiency and experience with one License Management tool.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary plus benefits.

- Colleague discount.

- Pensions scheme and life cover.

- Performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary.

- Annual holiday allowance.

- Flexible working policy.

- Season ticket loans.

- Cycle to work scheme.

- Health cash plans.

- Salary advance.

- Employee assistance programme.

## Skills

### Required
- ITIL4 Foundation
- Software Asset Management Fundamentals
- License Management tool
- ITIL practices
- Microsoft
- IBM
- Oracle
- VMware

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