SAM Vendor Specialist

_VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value and enhancing quality and efficiency across 28 countries, and operating from 6 locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, and the UK.

Over 26,000 highly skilled individuals are dedicated to being Vodafone Group’s partner of choice for talent, technology, and transformation. We deliver the best services across IT, Care, Business Intelligence Services, HR, Finance, Supply Chain, HR Operations, and many more. Established in 2006, _VOIS has evolved into a global, multi-functional organisation, a Centre of Excellence for Intelligent Solutions focused on adding value and delivering business outcomes for Vodafone.

_VOIS is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We celebrate differences and we welcome and value diverse people and insights. We believe that being authentically human and inclusive powers our employees’ growth and enables them to create positive impact for themselves and society. We do not discriminate based upon age, colour, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, and national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

With these skills you are a great candidate:

• Strong experience with some major software publisher's licensing models (Microsoft, Red Hat, VMWare, others)
• Ability to comprehend and interpret highly complex licensing issues
• Vendor Management basic experience (preferable in IT industry)
• Good understanding of Vodafone governance frameworks
• Full English proficiency
• Ability to work with Excel / Access advanced functions
• Understanding of Microsoft SQL Database (nice to have)
• Proven experience in software asset management
• Ability to communicate and interact with different layers of organization Leadership capabilities and project management
• ITIL framework knowledge
• Minimum 2 years work experience, mainly in IT area
• Strong analytical skills
• Team worker
• Good communicator, able to drive diverse stakeholders
• Ability and sound skills in negotiation with third parties having clear in mind goals and objectives to be achieved

With these activities you will have a great impact on our business:

- Window Server compliancy analysis and remediation;
- SQL Server Compliancy analysis and remediation
- Windows Server 2019 deployment control
- Other SW compliancy report design (MongoDB, Oracle DB, VMware, RedHat,)
- Creation of SW usage briefing packs for designers
- Vodafone Cloud & Infrastructure SW pricelist integration with Vodafone Procurement Team catalogue;
- Act as licensing specialist in case of questions/queries from the internal stakeholders in regards of our main software
- Support the Management of Vendor Relationship - engage with proper Vendor’s representatives in order to establish and maintain a sound and profitable relationship.
- Ensure vendor documentation is properly created and stored (e.g: License models guidelines, pricelists, entitlements)
- Participate to various meetings and workshops with vendors and other stakeholders acting as point of contact for GDC senior and line management;
- Vendor reporting – guarantee that proper reporting on Vendor (e.g. performance, true up, sam ) are available and reliable
- Project Management – leads, when required, project on sourcing topics

Sounds like the perfect job? We’ve got even more to offer:

In this pandemic we have 100% work from home for your safety. After this period we have 2 days work from home per week
Medical and dental services
Life insurance
Dedicated employee phone subscription
Special discounts for gyms and retailers
Annual Company Bonus
Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills
You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology
Getting in on the ground floor of and technology changing company
Flexible Vacation – Take time off when you need it, we trust you