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# Software Asset Management Lead & IT Asset Manager (SEO & HEO)

- **Company:** HM Land Registry
- **Location:** Croydon, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £41,224.0 - £47,084.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Configuration Management, Inventory Management Software, Microsoft Software, Oracle (Applications), Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Power BI, Software Asset Management, Software Licensing Audit, Software Licensing, Tools for Reporting
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7f12fb0bc3828c27

## About the Role

* Experience using SAM and reporting tools such as Snow, Excel and Power BI to analyse complex licence, entitlement, usage and inventory data.
 * Recognised Software Asset Management or IT Asset Management qualification, such as CSAM, ITAM Foundation or equivalent.
 * ITIL Foundation or equivalent practical service management experience.
 * Experience contributing to audit, risk, assurance or security governance forums.

Additional Essential Technical Skills and Qualifications for the HEO role:

 * Knowledge of Software Asset Management, IT Asset Management and the software licence lifecycle, including entitlement, deployment, usage, renewal, optimisation and audit activity.

Additional Essential Technical Skills and Qualifications for the SEO role:

 * Strong knowledge of Software Asset Management, IT Asset Management and the software licence lifecycle, including entitlement, deployment, usage, renewal, optimisation and audit activity.
 * Practical understanding of the DDaT/GDS Asset and Configuration Management framework, including managing service compliance and risk at practitioner level.
 * Knowledge of SaaS, cloud consumption, FinOps principles and emerging software optimisation approaches.

Core Essential Experience (Both Grades)

 * Experience interpreting licence agreements, validating effective licence positions and identifying software compliance risks and opportunities.
 * Experience using data to produce clear insight, reports and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
 * Experience working collaboratively with commercial, finance, architecture, service, security, supplier and technical teams to improve software control and value.
 * Experience embedding process improvement, governance and continual service improvement in a service management environment.
 * Experience building trusted stakeholder relationships and communicating complex technical or commercial issues clearly.
 * Experience coaching, guiding or developing others and supporting a professional, inclusive and customer-focused team culture.

Additional Essential experience for the HEO role:

 * Experience managing Software Asset Management, licensing, compliance, governance or optimisation activity in a medium or large technology environment.

Additional Essential experience for the SEO role:

 * Experience leading Software Asset Management, licensing, compliance, governance or optimisation activity in a medium or large technology environment.
 * Tier 1 (Category 1) licence management, strategic management of the organisation's highest-risk and highest-value software vendors, with a particular focus on vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat and AWS.
 * Demonstrable track record in quantifying and delivering savings and risk mediation

Behaviours (Both Grades)

 * Communicating and Influencing
 * Seeing the big picture
 * Developing self and others, * Recognised Software Asset Management or IT Asset Management qualification, such as CSAM, ITAM Foundation or equivalent. • Experience contributing to audit, risk, assurance or security governance forums.
 * •Practical understanding of the DDaT/GDS Asset and Configuration Management framework, including managing service compliance and risk at practitioner level. •Knowledge of SaaS, cloud consumption, FinOps principles and emerging software optimisation., * Experience using SAM and reporting tools such as Snow, Excel and Power BI to analyse complex licence, entitlement, usage and inventory data.
 * ITIL Foundation or equivalent practical service management experience.

If you are applying for the SEO role, we will also score your CV against the essential experience:

 * Demonstrable track record in quantifying and delivering savings and risk mediation

Please complete the first technical section (in no more than 250 words), please demonstrate:

 * Recognised Software Asset Management or IT Asset Management qualification, such as CSAM, ITAM Foundation or equivalent.
 * Experience contributing to audit, risk, assurance or security governance forums., * Practical understanding of the DDaT/GDS Asset and Configuration Management framework, including managing service compliance and risk at practitioner level.
 * Knowledge of SaaS, cloud consumption, FinOps principles and emerging software optimisation approaches., Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

## Description

We are looking for a SEO Software Asset Management Lead and a HEO IT Asset Manager to join our IT Service Management Practice within the Transformation and Technology directorate

 * The HEO IT Asset manager role is multifaceted and crucial for ensuring that our organisation's IT assets are managed efficiently and effectively. This is a vital role in optimising the use of IT assets, ensuring compliance, and supporting the overall IT strategy of the organisation.
 * The SEO Software Asset Management Lead role will lead Software Asset Management activity within the Transformation and Technology directorate, ensuring software licences, entitlements, usage, renewals and effective licence positions are managed accurately and proactively., IT Asset Management (ITAM) is the systematic tracking and utilisation of an organisation’s assets, both physical and digital. It involves cataloguing, deploying, maintaining, upgrading, and responsibly disposing of assets to ensure their optimal use throughout their lifecycle. This lifecycle typically encompasses planning, procurement, deployment, maintenance, and retirement, with a focus on understanding total cost of ownership and maximising asset value

As a HEO IT Asset Manager you will bring a strong commitment to service excellence and continuous improvement. As an experienced ITAM Manager, you will be able to step straight into a busy team by being adaptable to competing demands. You will provide licensing and SAM process advice, support Product Owners with optimisation and consolidation, and use Snow, Excel and Power BI to analyse software, entitlement and infrastructure data. You will identify risks, optimisation opportunities and unused or unassigned software, support deployments and onboarding to the Approved Software Register, review Snow alerts and asset status, validate ELPs, complete audits and provide reporting to support SAM Team KPIs.

As a SEO Software Asset Manager, you will work with service, product, commercial, finance, security, architecture, supplier and business stakeholders to improve compliance, reduce risk, optimise value for money and support excellent customer outcomes in line with LR values and the DDaT/GDS Asset and Configuration Management framework. You will lead the SAM capability, governing software assets, licences, agreements, entitlements and usage data throughout their lifecycle. You will strengthen controls, standards and reporting across Snow and other data sources, provide expert licensing and compliance advice, and lead effective licence position activity for high-risk, high-value vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat and AWS. You will build strong relationships across Transformation and Technology, Commercial, Finance, Architecture, Security, Product, Service, EUX, suppliers and business areas to support procurement, change and decommissioning activity, while using data insight to
reduce risk, optimise spend, improve compliance and inform senior decision-making. You will also champion LR values, coach team members and represent SAM in governance forums., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

 * Communicating and Influencing
 * Seeing the Big Picture
 * Developing Self and Others
 * Leadership, Complete the Personal Statement section (in no more than 750 words), please demonstrate:
 * Experience managing (HEO) or leading (SEO) Software Asset Management, licensing, compliance, governance or optimisation activity in a medium or large technology environment.
 * Experience interpreting licence agreements, validating effective licence positions and identifying software compliance risks and opportunities.
 * Experience using data to produce clear insight, reports and recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application.

Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications –this is 23:55 on the advertised date.

Sift

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date.

In case of a high volume of applications, we will complete a pre-sift on the technical criteria below:

 * Recognised Software Asset Management or IT Asset Management qualification, such as CSAM, ITAM Foundation or equivalent.
 * Experience contributing to audit, risk, assurance or security governance forums.

Interview

If successful at shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a face to face, blended interview and deliver a pre-prepared presentation. The interviews will be held in the office you are applying for, either Croydon, Nottingham or Plymouth. The blended interview will test the essential technical, experience and behaviours listed in the Job Description, as well as the strengths associated with the role, details will be provided on invitation to interview.

We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested. The best way to prepare for strengths questions is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working., * UK nationals

 * nationals of the Republic of Ireland
 * nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
 * nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
 * nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
 * individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
 * Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service