Asset Management (SAM) Senior Analyst

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Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

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Job Summary:

The Software Asset Management (SAM) Senior Analyst is a key individual contributor responsible for ensuring enterprise-wide software license compliance and optimizing software asset utilization. This role involves conducting in-depth analyses of software usage and contractual entitlements, producing Effective License Position (ELP) reports using Flexera, and driving remediation efforts to maintain compliance.

The SAM Senior Analyst will also serve as a strategic liaison between internal Software Owners and the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) team, supporting software lifecycle activities including contract renewals, end-of-life (EOL) identification, and associated remediation planning. Success in this role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams to ensure software assets are managed efficiently and in alignment with organizational goals.

What You Will Do:

• Lead team of resources to load and manage Flexera entitlements, create Effective License Position and remediation activities.
• ServiceNow Model Table Management and Software Catalog Management
• Software Usage & Optimization, analyze software usage reports to identify underutilized applications and establish removal rules for infrequently used software to optimize license usage and reduce costs.
• Process Improvement, identify and document requirements to enhance SAM processes and workflows and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across software asset management practices.

What skills you will have:

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Analytical Thinking: Strong capability to identify root causes, recognize patterns, and transform raw data into meaningful insights

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Business Data Analysis: Knowledge of business data analysis; ability to collect, identify, analyze and interpret business data using various kinds of techniques to meet business needs and requirements.
Business Assessment: Knowledge of the activities, tasks, practices and deliverables for assessing and documenting business opportunities; ability to assess the benefits, risks, and success factors of potential applications.
Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.

Business Acumen (Business + Value Realization): Knowledge of value realization methods; ability to plan, execute, monitor and manage business activities and resources to determine and achieve the actual value from a business initiative as estimated in an associated business case.

Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree
• Advanced English
• Software Licensing & Contract Interpretation. License metric expertise, Publisher licensing knowledge, Entitlement interpretation & normalization, Effective License Position (ELP) / compliance calculation
• Experience with SAM or ITAM tools (e.g., Flexera, ServiceNow SAM Pro).
• Exposure to audit support, contract audits, or compliance activities.
• Knowledge of value realization, savings tracking, and cost‑benefit analysis methodologies.

Note: This position requires the candidate to work on-site five days a week (except when traveling for business purposes).

Some of the offered benefits*:
• Medical plan
• Dental plan
• Medicines reimbursement
• Wellhub
• Psychological, Legal, Social and Finance Support Program
• Private pension plan
• Profit share
• Christmas basket
• Transportation
• Life and personal insurance
• Extended maternity and paternity leave
• Employee resources group (Young Professional, Women in Networking, LAMBDA (LGBTQIA+), Latin Group and Active in Sport

*Caterpillar reserves the right to change or modify benefits at any time, subject prior notice and in compliance with legal requirements. Benefit elegibility may vary by position and location.

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