Why choose AstraZeneca India?
Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Ownership takers
If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.
Challenge seekers
Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.
Proactive collaborators
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.
Responsibilities
GCL: F
Introduction to role:
Are you prepared to guide a global Software Asset Management capability that protects compliance, unlocks value and fuels a data-led, patient-focused enterprise? As Director, Software Asset Management, you will set the strategy and run the end-to-end software governance that keeps our business audit-ready, cost-optimized and primed to scale. Your decisions will help our scientists and teams access the right tools at the right time, so we can bring life-changing medicines to patients faster.
You will report to the Director of Service Asset and Configuration Management and lead a worldwide dispersed team. Partnering closely with sourcing, legal affairs, information security, enterprise architecture, finance and business-aligned technology groups, you will represent AstraZeneca with strategic software publishers and SAM tooling partners. Can you imagine shaping enterprise agreements and standards that save millions, reduce risk and empower thousands of colleagues—while building an energized, high-performing team?
Accountabilities:
Strategy, Governance and Compliance: Lead the global SAM strategy, policy, processes, standards and governance to ensure consistent, enterprise-wide compliance and reporting. Serve as the named control owner for software licence compliance, maintaining a continuous state of audit readiness and leading all vendor audits and internal assessments through to successful closure. Define and govern the full software lifecycle—from request and procurement, through entitlement, deployment and usage, to true-up, reallocation and retirement—ensuring a seamless AZ Software Store experience.
Value, Optimisation and FinOps: Drive measurable cost optimization and value realization from strategic enterprise agreements. Partner with Procurement and Finance to inform renewals, true-ups and rationalization, turning insights into budget decisions. Monitor and report consumption versus entitlement, identifying gaps, surplus and reharvest opportunities, and feed data-driven recommendations into planning and investment cycles. Champion software economic decision-making across technology teams to set standards, evaluate alternatives and consolidate where it counts.
Tooling, Data and Integration: Own the SAM tooling roadmap and customer success for platforms such as Flexera FNMS, ServiceNow SAM and App Portal, ensuring tight integration with IT service management, CMDB and hardware asset management. Safeguard the integrity of entitlements, contracts, installations and usage data as a single source of truth. Advance automation and self-service for software request, fulfilment and reclamation to elevate user experience and reduce manual effort.
Collaborator Engagement and Partnership: Build positive relationships with senior collaborators across Procurement, Legal, Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture, Finance and business-aligned technology groups to embed SAM standards and controls. Manage strategic software publisher and SAM partner relationships to influence roadmaps, secure favorable commercial outcomes and unlock new capabilities. Promote SAM advocacy and license compliance across the enterprise to raise awareness and establish the right behaviors.
Leadership: Lead and continuously develop a strong, globally distributed team across the UK and our Global Technology Centre, strengthening capability, succession and engagement. Play an active role in the SACM leadership team to align strategies and deliver outcomes at scale. Define compelling business cases and interlock investments with medium-term planning to transform AstraZeneca’s software governance capability and sustain long-term impact.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Significant IT experience leading global Software Asset Management or comparable IT governance / compliance functions.
- Demonstrable track record of leading software vendor license audits and large-scale internal compliance programmes.
- Deep knowledge of enterprise software publishers and license models – e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM, Salesforce, Adobe, ServiceNow, VMware.
- Hands-on experience of SAM tooling (Flexera FNMS, ServiceNow SAM, App Portal) and integration with ITSM and CMDB.
- Experience leading large global teams and multi-million dollar software portfolios and budgets.
- Experience of dealing with Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance functions.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Experience working in the Biopharmaceutical / Life Sciences industry.
- Recognised SAM / ITAM certifications – e.g. IAITAM CSAM, CITAM, ITIL, ISO/IEC 19770.
- Experience of FinOps / IT cost optimisation disciplines applied to software.
- Experience working across cultures and time zones, including a Global Technology Centre operating model.
- SDLC, Agile and Scrum methodologies.
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
Why AstraZeneca:
Here you will blend technology leadership with tangible patient impact, working in a modern, fast-moving environment where curiosity and high standards go hand-in-hand. We bring together diverse experts to solve complex problems, using data, analytics and AI to scale what works and reimagine what’s next. You’ll have the autonomy to take ownership, the backing to invest in bold ideas and the support of leaders who coach and recognize growth. We value kindness alongside ambition, pairing rigorous governance with a collaborative culture so you can build capabilities that shape the enterprise and leave a legacy that matters.
Call to Action:
If you are ready to lead a global SAM capability that reduces risk, maximizes value and accelerates our impact on patients, step forward and shape what’s possible.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Date Posted
09-Oct-2026Closing Date
16-Oct-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Lifelong learning
Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.
Autonomy and reward
Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.
Health and wellbeing
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.
Inclusion and diversity
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.
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