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Software Asset Manager [AQ-17867]

Aquent · Beaverton, OR · 1 mo ago
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We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes description of role, responsibilities, required skills & experience, preferred qualifications, about Aquent Talent (benefits), client description (maybe not needed). No explicit Pay or Schedule. Benefits: Aquent Talent mentions subsidized health, vision, dental, paid sick leave, retirement plans with match, free online training. So we can include Benefits section. About the role: we have introductory paragraphs describing role. Responsibilities: bullet list from "What You’ll Do". Requirements: maybe "Required Skills & Experience". Qualifications: "Preferred Qualifications". Skills: maybe combine? The instruction says use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can include those that have content. We'll need to avoid repeating job title. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate like EEO, equal-opportunity, scam-warning, navigation, cookie, legal. Also remove "Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer..." etc. Also remove "More information on our awesome benefits!" maybe keep benefits but not fluff. Also remove "Client Description" maybe not needed as it's not a standard heading; but could be considered part of About the role? Probably drop it as not requested heading. We'll keep only relevant. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include the description paragraphs about the role, responsibilities bullet list, required skills & experience, preferred qualifications, benefits details. We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact sentences? We can keep them as is but maybe reformat into

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  • . Must not add extra info not present. Should not omit any substantive detail. Let's extract. Original text: "Aquent is proud to partner with a leading global technology organization that stands at the forefront of innovation, constantly pushing boundaries to deliver groundbreaking solutions that shape the future. This organization is renowned for its dynamic environment and unwavering commitment to excellence, making a significant impact on a global scale. Join us and become an integral part of a team that thrives on creativity, collaboration, and driving meaningful change. Are you ready to make a profound impact by optimizing critical technology investments and ensuring seamless operations across a vast enterprise? This is a unique opportunity to apply your expertise in a role that is crucial for driving efficiency, ensuring compliance, and empowering technology teams with the insights they need to make informed decisions. You’ll be at the heart of turning complex licensing and usage data into tangible cost savings, reduced risk, and enhanced compliance, directly contributing to the organization’s strategic goals. You’re analytical, highly organized, and comfortable navigating complex enterprise environments, understanding that effective asset management is about more than tracking licenses—it’s about transforming data into better business decisions. If you’re comfortable working across multiple teams, managing ambiguity, and building relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, this role is for you." That's the About the role section. Then "What You’ll Do" bullet list: - Own and evolve the end-to-end software asset lifecycle, from procurement and entitlement management through deployment, renewal, and retirement. - Manage software licensing and compliance across major enterprise publishers. - Maintain and improve software asset management processes, data, controls, and governance. - Monitor software usage and consumption to identify cost savings, shelfware reduction, license harvesting, and rightsizing opportunities. - Support software audits, compliance reviews, renewals, and true-ups by analyzing license entitlements and usage. - Partner with Procurement and Legal on software contracts, renewals, negotiations, and vendor management. - Work with Technology, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, Finance, and other stakeholders to ensure software is appropriately licensed and deployed. - Translate complex software licensing agreements into practical controls, recommendations, and business insights. - Develop reporting and dashboards that provide visibility into software assets, compliance, spend, and optimization opportunities. - Identify opportunities to automate and continuously improve software asset management processes. Then "Required Skills & Experience": - 5+ years of experience in Software Asset Management, Software Licensing, IT Asset Management, or a closely related discipline within a global or large enterprise environment. - Strong understanding of enterprise software licensing models, including user-based, device-based, subscription, SaaS, and cloud licensing. - Experience managing software from major enterprise publishers. - Hands-on experience with leading software asset management or IT asset management platforms. - Experience with software license compliance, audits, true-ups, entitlement management, and/or license optimization. - Ability to analyze software usage and licensing data to identify financial savings and compliance risks. - Experience partnering with cross-functional teams including Procurement, Legal, Finance, Information Security, Architecture, and Technology. - Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills. - Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Then "Preferred Qualifications": - ITAM/SAM certifications such as CSAM, CITAM, or ISO 19770. - Experience leading or defending software vendor audits. - Experience with software contract negotiations, renewals, or true-ups. - Experience building executive-level reporting and dashboards. - Experience developing enterprise software asset management policies, controls, and governance. - Experience with automation and continuous improvement initiatives. - Previous experience supporting a large global enterprise technology organization. Then "About Aquent Talent": "Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!" We need to extract benefits: subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, retirement plans with a match, free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. We should not include fluff like "amazing benefits", "More information on our awesome benefits!" maybe we can keep but it's not substantive; better to keep just the benefits list. We also have "Client Description" but not needed. We must not include EEO etc. Thus sections:

    About the role

    ... (the paragraph(s) )

    Responsibilities

    • ... each bullet

    Requirements

    • ... each required skill bullet

    Qualifications

    • ... each preferred qualification bullet

    Benefits

    • ... each benefit
    We should not include Skills heading separately if we already have Requirements and Qualifications; but we could combine skills into Requirements. The instruction says use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can omit Skills if not needed. We have Requirements and Qualifications covering skills. So we omit Skills. Pay and Schedule omitted as not present. Now ensure we preserve all substantive information: Did we lose any? Let's check. From About the role: we captured all sentences. Did we lose any nuance? We'll put them in one or multiple

    tags. Could split into multiple paragraphs but keep all content. From Responsibilities: we captured each bullet. From Required Skills & Experience: captured each bullet. From Preferred Qualifications: captured each bullet. From Benefits: captured subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, retirement plans with a match, free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. We omitted "Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands." That's descriptive but maybe considered substantive? It's about Aquent Talent, not the role. Might be considered boilerplate? It's describing the talent agency. Could be considered part of Benefits section context but not a benefit. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. This line is not exactly boilerplate but it's describing Aquent Talent. Might be considered part of the "About Aquent Talent" but not a benefit. Since we are only including Benefits section, we could include a short paragraph about Aquent Talent before the benefits list. However the instruction says include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. The "About Aquent Talent" paragraph is specific content about the agency. Could be considered part of Benefits? But we already have Benefits heading; we could put a

    describing Aquent Talent then

      for benefits. That would preserve all substantive info. The instruction didn't forbid extra paragraphs within a section. So we can include a

      with that description, then

        for benefits. Similarly, we might include a

        for About the role description (multiple paragraphs). That's fine. Now check for duplicated lines: none. Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer..." etc. We removed. Now output only HTML fragment. Let's craft. We'll need to escape any HTML special characters? The text includes apostrophes, hyphens, etc. It's fine. We'll produce:

        About the role

        Aquent is proud to partner with a leading global technology organization that stands at the forefront of innovation, constantly pushing boundaries to deliver groundbreaking solutions that shape the future. This organization is renowned for its dynamic environment and unwavering commitment to excellence, making a significant impact on a global scale. Join us and become an integral part of a team that thrives on creativity, collaboration, and driving meaningful change. Are you ready to make a profound impact by optimizing critical technology investments and ensuring seamless operations across a vast enterprise? This is a unique opportunity to apply your expertise in a role that is crucial for driving efficiency, ensuring compliance, and empowering technology teams with the insights they need to make informed decisions. You’ll be at the heart of turning complex licensing and usage data into tangible cost savings, reduced risk, and enhanced compliance, directly contributing to the organization’s strategic goals. You’re analytical, highly organized, and comfortable navigating complex enterprise environments, understanding that effective asset management is about more than tracking licenses—it’s about transforming data into better business decisions. If you’re comfortable working across multiple teams, managing ambiguity, and building relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, this role is for you.

        Responsibilities

        • Own and evolve the end-to-end software asset lifecycle, from procurement and entitlement management through deployment, renewal, and retirement.
        • Manage software licensing and compliance across major enterprise publishers.
        • Maintain and improve software asset management processes, data, controls, and governance.
        • Monitor software usage and consumption to identify cost savings, shelfware reduction, license harvesting, and rightsizing opportunities.
        • Support software audits, compliance reviews, renewals, and true-ups by analyzing license entitlements and usage.
        • Partner with Procurement and Legal on software contracts, renewals, negotiations, and vendor management.
        • Work with Technology, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, Finance, and other stakeholders to ensure software is appropriately licensed and deployed.
        • Translate complex software licensing agreements into practical controls, recommendations, and business insights.
        • Develop reporting and dashboards that provide visibility into software assets, compliance, spend, and optimization opportunities.
        • Identify opportunities to automate and continuously improve software asset management processes.

        Requirements

        • 5+ years of experience in Software Asset Management, Software Licensing, IT Asset Management, or a closely related discipline within a global or large enterprise environment.
        • Strong understanding of enterprise software licensing models, including user-based, device-based, subscription, SaaS, and cloud licensing.
        • Experience managing software from major enterprise publishers.
        • Hands-on experience with leading software asset management or IT asset management platforms.
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