Manager, IT Asset Management & Compliance – Multi-Vendor

Position Description :

The Manager, Corporate Services Multi-Vendor Licensing is responsible for applying their understanding of business contracts, software license and IT asset management practices to effectively deliver software license management services to the organization, optimizing the license usage and avoid potentially significant penalties to CGI.

The incumber will provide expert advice relating to multi-vendor licensing models, manage the software lifecycle, cost reporting and optimization.

In addition, the Manager will ensure software license and contract compliance via extensive data analysis within and outside CGI’s ITAM system.

This includes coordinating audit request, when required, and consolidating audit data.

In collaboration with internal business partners, the Manager, ITAM and Compliance Multi-Vendor Licensing oversees software licenses entitlements, ensuring that CGI has the most efficient licensing model and the correct number of licenses to support its business operations.

We are open to considering candidates from North America where CGI has an office, with a preferred location being in Canada.

Your future duties and responsibilities :

• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert, maintaining expertise in muti-vendor software licensing, compliance, software maintenance agreements and vendor licensing practices for software product.
• Potential to manage a team of license analysts who’s responsibility is to monitor and report enterprise wide compliance with software license agreements;
• Monitor and enforce proper software usage policies and guidelines;
• Develop strategies and processes to perform required inventories and produce evidence of ownership and license compliance, including reports / templates / checklists and licensing guidelines;
• Hold regular compliance reviews with all relevant stakeholders;
• Advise key stakeholders on license management methods, processes, best practices, technologies and tools;
• Conduct effective license positions (ELPs) to identify variances between deployed and licensed software, ensuring deployed software aligns with the licensing models purchased and usage terms and conditions.
• Provide guidance in rectifying variances;
• Ensure that there is no non-compliance, excessive or unwarranted software usage and work with all levels of CGI management to resolve compliancy issues;
• Evaluate and recommend options to reduce licensing costs;
• Present status reports to management on a regular basis for the contracts and technology domains under his or her responsibilities;
• Create, build and maintain open partnerships and relations with Business Units ITAM leaders as well as internal procurement teams, to ensure maximum value for all agreements;
• Prime or Assist in vendor compliance audits as required;
• Prime or assist in vendor onboarding into Flexnet Manager Suite;
• Support the negotiation of new software vendor license agreements, or changes to existing agreements, and manage post contract implementations, compliance monitoring, actual savings reporting and recommending corrective actions to promote contract adoption;
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives

Required qualifications to be successful in this role :

• Bachelor’s Degree;
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in a similar role;
• Demonstrated proficiency in IT Operations, software licensing, and customer / vendor relationships;
• Experience with software audits

KEY SKILLS & COMPETENCIES :

• Superior awareness of software licensing management and agreements, the types of software licenses and commercial models, interpreting contract language and compliance of various software publishers;
• Understanding of inventory management processes, techniques, reporting and discovery tools, and asset management databases technologies, used for software license management and compliance;
• Knowledge of financial concepts and practices as they relate to software license and contract management;
• Knowledge of project management and task-tracking, process mapping, reporting tools and techniques;
• Ability to communicate effectively (technical and non-technical);
• Ability to present complex data from multiple sources into a convincing business case, taking into consideration the needs and priorities of stakeholders;

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Bilingualism (French and English) is required for this position due to the nature of the role requiring interaction with national and global clients.