We are looking for an intelligent, proactive candidate with a great attitude to deliver in time. Someone who worked before in Startup or medium business environment and knows what it means for the business to deliver in time with the best possible quality. A person who can play a leadership role within the team to drive the team’s culture, motive and engage the team of developers.

What You'll do

• Define the product roadmap, aligned to customer needs and business objectives
• Working closely with business stakeholders to understand business drivers, considerations, to define the shared vision and receive necessary approvals
• End-to-end product delivery responsibility in Agile environment, own and drive delivery deadlines
• Design, prototype, develop and test new product features and initiatives in collaboration with business stakeholders
• Prioritise and maintain the product backlog, ensure refined backlog is ready for development teams at all times
• Work with relevant members of scrum teams to ensure delivery of new initiatives supporting the attainment of business objectives and take corrective action for initiatives that are not on schedule or achieving expected business goals
• Track and report on success metrics for newly launched product features and provide timely updates on the progress of new initiatives.

Our Purpose

Here at Datacom we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.

About The Role

This is an excellent opportunity not to be missed! You will be joining a fantastic Software Asset Management team in our extensive Service Operations business. The SAM team support each other and work collaboratively across a range of managed and project services. This is a chance to make your mark in a business with strong people and customer focus.

This role is preferably located in Canberra, although remote work is supported, and is ideal for someone who is experienced in Software Asset Management and Software Licensing and keen to develop a career with loads variety and opportunity.

If you already have Baseline Security Clearance this will be advantageous, it is required.

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for a proactive, independent, enthusiastic team member who’s interested in being part of a larger group delivering a high quality and complex service to our customers. You’ll bring expertise developed over 3+ years in a Software Asset Management, IT Asset Management, or Licensing Sales, as you will be supporting the delivery of the Software Asset Management (SAM) service for a large Federal Government account.

Your ability to work with other members of the client management team to develop and deliver quality solutions for our customer is critical to the success of our service.

As part of the role you will provide quality customer service enhancements in optimising the SAM Service, planning the service implementation, championing the delivery of the service and processes, and verification and continued maintenance of the SAM Service.

What You’ll Do

In this role you will work collaboratively with other Software Asset Management (SAM) team members, Software Licensing Consultants, and Service Delivery Managers. Essentially, the Software Asset Manager will:

• Manage the relationship with key Customer stakeholders and Datacom Managed Services.
• Act as SAM Subject Matter Expert for the account.
• Ensure effective and smooth delivery of our customer’s SAM services.
• Contribute to the achievement of the outcomes of the contract.
• Delivery and support the Business Development Process.
• Ensure that SAM plans, processes and procedures are delivered incorporating good practise methodologies, accurately documented, successfully implemented, appropriately communicated to customer’s stakeholders, and provide continuous SAM Improvement with our services for our customers.
• You are a key contributor to the management of the Software Asset Lifecycle for our customer. This includes identifying the software inventory, capturing license entitlements, performing ongoing software compliance checks, and remediation as appropriate.
• Manage, maintain, and facilitate the renewal of software maintenance by validating the renewal details to ensure the information is correct and valid and also update the Software Asset Register/Technology with the new licensing details.
• Facilitate software procurement for the account including the tasks of retrieving quotes from software vendors or Datacom’s internal procurement team, approval from the business and facilitating the procurement and associated software lifecycle tasks.
• Review current software Terms and Conditions, License Agreements, and License Contracts to ensure that the account is not exposed to any breaches or risks.
• Provide quality customer service through adherence to Datacom’s Asset Management service delivery methodology and processes.
• Experience in using SAM technologies and their capabilities, in particular, Flexera FlexNet Manager Suite and/or Snow License Manager. You will be responsible for monitoring the health of the SAM technology and will proactively work with technical teams to ensure the technology is maintained to acceptable standards.
• Experience with ITSM tools like Cherwell or Service Now will be advantageous.
• Interpret data outputs from the SAM technologies and other tools to provide accurate and timely reporting.
• Be able to follow documented procedures to support the deliver of consistent services.
• Perform license reclamation activity and record cost avoidance.
• Propose remediation and optimisation activities that may result in reduced compliance risk and/or financial savings and cost avoidance.
• Liaise with service management, and customer teams to define, optimise, and develop SAM standards, processes, procedures, plans and controls to ensure appropriate service asset information is recorded and maintained.
• Work collaboratively with a larger SAM team in delivering SAM Services as well as autonomously within your dedicated account.

You must hold Australian Citizenship as a Baseline Security Clearance is required, and it will be advantageous if you already have one.

Culture and Benefits

Datacom is ones of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. As an ANZ company, we have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

At Datacom you'll be recognised and valued for your contributions. We're growing year on year and can provide stability, career opportunity and a collegial, agile, flat-structured environment that empowers people and promotes autonomy. We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. We operate at the leading edge of technology to help ANZ’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

If you would like to know more and this sounds like you. Please apply online today!