IT Engineer - SAM Admin/Developer

At Beiersdorf, we want to help people feel good about their skin - and our commitment goes far beyond caring for skin. For 140 years, we have developed innovative skin and body care products for well-known brands such as NIVEA, Eucerin, La Prairie, Hansaplast, and Labello. We act according to our purpose, WE CARE BEYOND SKIN, and take responsibility for our consumers, our employees, the environment and society.

Behind every brand, every product and every accomplishment are our more than 20,000 employees. It is for them that we live an inclusive culture of respect and trust that is strongly aligned with our values - CARE, COURAGE, SIMPLICITY and TRUST. We also embrace diversity by valuing the uniqueness of each individual and being committed to equal opportunities for all.

Your Tasks

Beiersdorf Shared Services in Poznań IT Hub plays a critical role in enabling global Beiersdorf business success. We workclosely with our major well-known brands (such as NIVEA), functions, and markets to deliver innovative, reliable, andefficient information and data technologies.In the IT Operations department of Beiersdorf, we are responsible for delivering IT infrastructure services on a global scale to the entire Beiersdorf Group, which comprises more than 20,000 employees worldwide. You will be part of the global Software Asset Management Team, providing transparency on software assets and ensuring efficient and compliant licence usage while minimizing legal and financial risks.

We are seeking an experienced License Manager to manage software licence compliance, optimisation and financial transparency across the software lifecycle. You will connect IT, Procurement, Finance, application owners and softwarevendors to enable fact-based licensing, optimization potential, sourcing and renewal decisions.

Your task:

• Licence compliance and governance: Create and maintain reliable licence positions for assigned publishers and products based on entitlements, contracts, deployments and consumption; identify risks and coordinate remediation.
• Licence optimisation and cost management: Identify unused, underutilised or incorrectly assigned licences; drivereclamation, reallocation and right-sizing; track savings and cost avoidance.
• Contracts, renewals and vendors: Support Procurement and stakeholders in renewals, negotiations and sourcingdecisions by providing licence demand, risk and optimisation scenarios.
• Software lifecycle management: Ensure licence requirements are considered from demand and procurement through deployment, operation, optimisation and retirement.
• SAM data quality: Monitor the quality of entitlement, contract, inventory, usage, CMDB and discovery data; investigategaps and coordinate resolution with accountable owners.
• Audit readiness: Maintain traceable licensing assumptions, usage rights and supporting evidence; support internal reviews and external software audits.
• Reporting and transparency: Provide management reporting on compliance, consumption, cost, optimisation, renewal readiness and material risks.
• Stakeholder management: Collaborate with IT, Application and Service Owners, Procurement, Finance, Architecture and vendors; challenge unnecessary demand and support fact-based decisions.
• Continuous improvement: Standardise and automate licence-management activities, controls and reporting, and contribute to the ongoing development of SAM processes and governance.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree in an IT-related or commercial field, an apprenticeship, or equivalent relevant professional experience
• Professional experience: Several years of experience in Software Asset Management, IT Asset Management, software licensing, contract management or a comparable role.
• Licensing expertise: Strong knowledge of software licence models, subscriptions, enterprise agreements, entitlements and usage rights; experience with major publishers such as Microsoft, SAP, IBM, Oracle or Adobe is desirable.
• SAM tools and data: Experience with SAM/ITSM platforms, and a good understanding of CMDB, inventory and discovery data.
• Commercial and analytical skills: Ability to translate complex licence and consumption data into clear compliance, cost and sourcing recommendations.
• Collaboration: Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills in cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, with the confidence to challenge requirements constructively.
• Working style: High attention to detail, structured documentation, ownership, critical thinking and a continuous- improvement mindset.
• Languages: Fluency in English, both verbal and written; German is a plus.