You are responsible for the correct and efficient licensing of a defined range of software products from the global software portfolio of ContiTech and the successful implementation of strategic guidelines.
In this role, you're in charge of the following tasks:
- Efficient and correct licensing according to contractual conditions, especially according to valid license metrics
- Ensuring seamless renewals of maintenance and subscriptions
- Ensuring the documentation of each license acquisition in the license management tool
- Issuing and managing license keys
- Defining and implementing sustainable measures to minimize risks and ensure always valid licensing and software usage (compliance)
- Regularly providing license balances (license inventory, license usage, license requirements)
- Regularly conducting internal license audits to validate or identify deviations
- Determining needs and planning the budget for centrally managed software usage rights
- Central internal contact for software licensing, especially in the sourcing process towards Purchasing department
- Developing simulations and scenarios for license models and contract volumes
- Monitoring the data quality of license types and usage
- Providing analyses and data for management requests
- Coordinating or conducting measurements for internal or external inquiries
- Communicating changed license conditions to internal application and service owners
- Developing alternative license metrics and adapting changed metrics for internal operations
- Actively participating in mergers & acquisitions (M&A), especially regarding license metrics and temporary usage rights