Sr Analyst, Software Asset Management
Location
Burbank, CA | United States
Job description
Job Summary:
At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.
This role executes processes and procedures to ensure software license entitlements, subscriptions and deployments, and associated maintenance and support agreements are effectively managed and administered in order to continue to meet business requirements, maintain compliance with license/contract terms; and maximize value while mitigating risk.
Job Summary:
- Develops and implements processes and procedures to enable the effective and efficient management, administration, and oversight of an enterprise-wide software license, subscription and maintenance/support portfolio based on industry and internal leading practices.
- Negotiate, as part of a cross-functional team of key subject matter experts and stakeholders, software license, subscription, and maintenance/support agreements in alignment with business requirements, and industry / internal leading practices
- Ensure software license entitlements, subscriptions and deployments, and associated maintenance and support agreements are effectively managed and administered in order to continue to meet business requirements, maintain compliance with license/contract terms; and maximize value while mitigating risk.
- Influence software publisher’s/provider’s licensing policies and practices to align with business requirements, reduce complexity, and mitigate risk.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain software license subscription and maintenance renewal calendar
- Execute software license, subscription and maintenance renewals
- Maintain process documentation, playbooks, and software license, subscription, and maintenance agreement repositories
- Ensure software license entitlement and deployment data and reporting are available to key stakeholders
- Provide data to support maintenance renewals, usage forecasts, budgeting and other decision support and governance activities
- Perform license compliance and license re-harvesting assessments
- Negotiate, in collaboration with key stakeholders, simple, low-risk license purchases
- Provide support to key continuous improvement activities
- Provide support to 3rd Party Audit activities
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of related software asset management experience, for both end-user and data center products, in a large, diverse company
- Build knowledge of the company, processes and customers
- Solve a range of straightforward problems
- Analyze possible solutions using standard procedures
- Receive a moderate level of guidance and direction
- Knowledge and experience with software asset management, software licensing and license use rights
- Experience and knowledge of the software lifecycle from licensing to purchasing to deployment to decommissioning
- Effective communication both internally and externally using a variety of styles and mediums
- Understand how to perform a license compliance assessment
- Understand how to perform and process a software maintenance renewal
- Demonstrate data analytics and critical thinking abilities
- Engage and consult with others in a collaborative manner
Required Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Technology, or equivalent experience
The pay range for this position in California is $102,000.00 to $136,700.00 per year, however, base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
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