Your Responsibilities:
Strategic licence and contract management
- Development and implementation of global licensing strategies, particularly for SAP, Microsoft and Oracle, but also for numerous other vendors;
- Analysis, evaluation and optimisation of existing software contracts and licensing models;
- Preparation, support and execution of complex contract and price negotiations with manufacturers and resellers, both independently and as part of a team;
- Collaboration in the introduction and subsequent support of a SAM tool from ServiceNow;
- Close management of a managed service provider for licences;
- Identifying cost reduction potential and deriving measures for consolidation and efficiency improvement.
Operational licence management
- Ensuring compliance and minimising licensing risks;
- Establishment, maintenance and further development of licence inventories and databases (SAM tools);
- Conducting licence requirement and usage analyses;
- Support and assistance with external audits (e.g. SAP measurement, Microsoft True-Up, Oracle LMS);
- Advising internal stakeholders on all licensing issues.
Stakeholder and interface management
- Close cooperation with IT purchasing, enterprise architecture, security and finance;
- Advising departments on licensing models, deployment scenarios and cost implications ;
- Support for cloud transformation programmes (e.g. SAP S/4HANA, SAP RISE, Microsoft Azure / M365, Oracle Cloud).
Process and tool development
- Further development and automation of licence management processes;
- Participation in the design and expansion of global SAM governance;
- Introduction and optimisation of SAM tools (Service Now).