Licencing & Compliance Manager

Leidos is a global science and technology solutions leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defence, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 33,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers.

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This role is based on a customer site (60%), with flexibility to work remotely (40%) when feasible and support other sites when applicable.

The role is responsible for the effective management of the licences, software compliance and support and maintenance agreements within the programme scope.

This role is responsible for the management of all licences and associated support within scope of the programmes delivered service. This includes the management of licence allocation, acquisition of new licences, confirmation of required support, and renewal of existing licences and maintenance agreements across the Enterprise including remote sites.

The successful candidate will report directly to the ILS/ITAM Manager and will play a key role in maintaining software compliance and optimising licence usage across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversea and manage the process of obtaining and renewing licences.
• Negotiate and manage licencing contracts including, but not limited to, operating as the main point of contact for all license agreement negotiations and amendment of existing agreements. Ensure End User Licence Agreement (EULA) reviews are completed.
• Work with the customer Software Acquisition Management team and the customer Software Licence Manager to ensure awareness of MOD ELA availability and ensure (where applicable) clients ELA are utilised to their fullest.
• Gain customer acceptance of risk identified, waivers and maintain records accordingly.
• Process owner for the acquisition of new software.
• Process owner for the renewal of software products within scope of the programme.
• Ensure renewals engineer has tools required to perform their function in an efficient and timely manner.
• Process owner for licencing including compliance, monitoring and recording of all licences deployed and reconciling with licence entitlement and taking the necessary action to maintain compliance.
• Monitor and manage the renewals process to ensure that there are no gaps in licencing or maintenance agreement coverage.
• Integrate technical and business knowledge to aid focus on compliance with all senior stakeholders and support teams.
• Monitor the actual cost of renewals and maintain the forecast for future renewals costs. Submit a revised forecast to the customer via contracts each month.
• Work closely with different departments to coordinate licensing needs.
• Monitor and control licence types for deployed software ensuring correct allocation and utilisation.
• Process owner for the renewal of Hardware Support agreements. Work with the Programme supplier manager for End Of Service Life contract to ensure items are added and removed appropriately and amendments to costs / invoicing are tracked.
• Ensure maintenance of the CMDB for all software and support agreements, create records assign licences to CI's to allow monitoring and compliance.
• Ensure that maintenance support contracts are recorded with in the CMDB and assign the assets to CIs to ensure engineers have the support details to hand.
• Respond to all licencing and renewals RFIs in accordance with the SLA.
• Monitor and maintain customer portals for hardware and software acquisition, work with the SACM to ensure the DML is up-to-date and latest software packages and licences are available for distribution.
• Report performance against KPIs to appropriate forums.
• Inform the Obsolescence Management process when items are identified as EOS/EOL and if the licence model changes that requires an upgrade.
• Perform audit of all licence and support records to confirm accuracy.

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What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Flexi-time Working

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE - we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range £47,500.00 - £71,557.50

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.