Job Description

Salary

Salary will be from 43,482 per annum subject to knowledge, skills and experience.

Contractual hours

36.5

Package

Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme and relocation package (if applicable).

Job category/type

IT and Digital

Date posted

20/09/2025

Job reference

Q07931

IT Services

This new full - time post is available from immediately on a fixed term basis until 30/09/2026 and offers the opportunity for hybrid working - some time on campus and some from home.

Summary of the role

We are looking for a Software Asset Manager to join our team on a fixed term basis. This is a specialist role that will involve liaising with Senior Management and Technical Teams alike to ensure the technology and software solutions the University both adopts and maintains, continue to deliver value and maintain legal compliance.

You will be responsible for overseeing the University's entire software and associated assets / services, ensuring compliance with underlying licence and contractual conditions, usage optimisation and management of software procurement. This involves the tracking of all software and SaaS usage, negotiating vendor contracts and implementing policies to mitigate associated legal and financial risks.

You will also provide training, coaching and mentoring to others on specific tasks, giving guidance and feedback based on own knowledge or experience.

About you

The successful candidate will have a good understanding of Software Licencing and Software Asset Management (SAM) for on premise, Cloud and SaaS environments. This should be complemented with a working knowledge of SAM and IT Service Desk tools operating within an ITIL based IT operations environment.

You will ideally have proven experience of managing relationships within teams and the impact on the overall aims and objectives, evidencing ability to break down barriers and building beneficial working relationships.

Please ensure you read the and Person Specification for full details of this role.

The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world's most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. More than 99 percent of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).

We encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Read about our world leading research - Green Futures and how we are transforming education for a changing world. We are located in a beautiful part of the country and Exeter (a fast growing tech hub) is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Creative City

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.

With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

41 days leave per year options for flexible working numerous discounts at leading retailers onsite gyms on all of our campus' and a cycle to work scheme sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy


stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Further information

Please contact Martin Nel, email M.Nel@exeter.ac.uk