Section Manager, License

Job description / Role

Job Purpose

Responsible for managing and maintaining the IT licenses contracts, ensure compliant and effectively managed. This helps to minimize legal and financial risks while maximizing the value of software investments.

Key Accountability Areas

Contract Management:
- Reviewing software license contracts with vendors to ensure favorable terms and conditions for the organization.
- Managing and maintaining a centralized repository of all software license contracts, including tracking contract terms, renewal dates, and obligations.

License Compliance:
- Ensuring that the organization is in compliance with the terms and conditions of software license contracts, including usage restrictions and license limits.

Vendor Management:
- Building and maintaining relationships with software vendors and resellers to ensure effective communication and timely resolution of contract-related issues.

Contract Renewals:
- Coordinating the renewal process for software license contracts, including evaluating contract performance, negotiating renewal terms, and ensuring timely renewals.

Contract Amendments:
- Managing and implementing any amendments or changes to software license contracts, including negotiating contract modifications and updating contract terms.

Risk Mitigation:
- Identifying and mitigating contractual risks associated with software license agreements, such as non-compliance, termination clauses, or penalties.

Compliance Audits:
- Conducting regular audits to ensure compliance with software license contracts and identifying any potential violations or risks.

Legal and Regulatory Compliance:
- Ensuring that software license contracts comply with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards.

Cross-functional Collaboration:
- Collaborating with IT teams, legal departments, procurement, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment with organizational goals and strategies.

Requirements

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:
- Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
- Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
- Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
- Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
- Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:
- Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
- Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
- Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:
- Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
- Making a Tangible Difference:
- Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:
- Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
- Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
- Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
- Provide periodic work progress reports.
- Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:
- Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
- Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:
- Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
- Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
- Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:
- Quality is considered as alfanar's prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:
- Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:
- Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification
- Bachelor Degree in Information Technology or Any relevant field

Work Experience
- 5 to 10 Years

Technical / Functional Competencies
- Data Quality Assurance
- Process Improvement
- Contract Management
- Contract Monitoring

About the Company

alfanar builds efficient energy systems & solutions of the present and sets up infrastructures for a brighter future.

We assist utility sector partners & customers in transforming cities into sustainable, habitable, and inclusive Smart Cities by harnessing renewable energy resources from wind, solar, and waste heat energy. Promoting the transition to a sustainable eco-conscious future.

Using world-class technologies, we develop unrivaled quality electrical solutions & products from our manufacturing facilities, to solve the world’s major energy challenges and make the world a better viable place.

Diligence, Efficiency, and Innovation are the key criteria our teams adopt in order to continuously provide effective solutions. We’re constantly equipping our teams with the tools they need to expand their horizons and reach higher grounds.

Being in an ever-changing environment with a crucial impact on their surroundings, our employees are nurtured to become keen thinkers with highly refined skills and a consistent outlook on the future, working together on finding the next big innovation.