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Pfeifer & Langen

Europäischer Zuckerhersteller mit 25 Standorten

License Manager

IT OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCologne, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Several years of experience in IT license management in larger enterprise structures, ideally with group-wide or multi-entity scope and enterprise software such as SAP.
  • Knowledge of SAP license and usage models and ability to relate license needs, actual usage, and commercial impacts.
  • Experience systematically analyzing license inventories and actual usage, identifying optimization opportunities, and deriving concrete quantity- and cost-optimization measures.
  • Experience with IT cost optimization, FinOps, or comparable management approaches, and understanding of SaaS, cloud, and consumption-based cost models.
  • Ability to work confidently with license, usage, and cost data and develop KPIs, consumption metrics, and forecasts to manage demand and costs proactively.
  • Ability to explain complex license, usage, and cost models and work with stakeholders including Service Owners, Application Owners, Finance, Procurement, and business partners.
  • Very good German and English language skills.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the enterprise group's license portfolio and provide transparency into inventories, usage, consumption, and costs, supporting appropriate and economical usage with Service Owners, Application Owners, Finance, Procurement, and the business.
  • Manage SAP Suite license and consumption, monitoring license and usage models for SAP S/4HANA private and public cloud, analyzing group-wide usage, and continuously developing the approach with relevant stakeholders.
  • Regularly analyze license inventories and actual usage, identify over-licensing, under-licensing, unused, or redundant licenses, and recommend concrete optimization measures to the business.
  • Determine and consolidate future demand and support Procurement with expertise for purchases, contract renewals, and strategic license and contract negotiations.
  • Develop license management toward consumption management; provide transparency into consumption-based costs for SaaS and cloud services, credits, and AI/token consumption, and initiate cross-functional cost-optimization measures.
  • Develop KPIs and consumption metrics, identify trends and deviations, and create forecasts to support budgeting and active cost management.
  • Develop allocation and consumption models with Service Owners and Finance and provide usage and cost data for showback, chargeback, and increasingly consumption-based internal service billing.
  • Establish reliable license, usage, and consumption data and automate its collection, consolidation, and preparation where practical, reducing manual work and enabling continuous management; use Flexera One as the central license-management tool.
  • Develop standards and processes for license and consumption management with stakeholders and ensure group-wide transparency of responsibilities, data, and decision-making paths.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience supporting SAP license measurements or audits and familiarity with related data, process, and compliance requirements.
  • Knowledge of modern SaaS, cloud, credit-based, or token-based consumption models and experience building or managing consumption models.
  • Experience with showback/chargeback models or consumption-based internal service billing in larger organizations.
  • Experience with SAM, ITAM, FinOps, or analytics tools and automation of license, usage, or consumption data.
  • Polish language skills.

About the Company

Pfeifer & Langen

Europäischer Zuckerhersteller mit 25 Standorten

Pfeifer & Langen is a European sugar producer that processes sugar beets into refined sugar and related products. The company operates across about 25 sites in Europe and generates around 1.4 billion euros in revenue. Its products come from beets grown locally; sugar is extracted and refined through industrial processes and then packaged for sale to customers across various markets. Compared with rivals, Pfeifer & Langen emphasizes a long-standing tradition (founded in 1870), a broad European footprint, and a culture of teamwork and shared growth, aiming to responsible, steady expansion rather than rapid, flashy changes. The company’s goal is to sweeten daily life worldwide by leveraging community, responsibility, and persistent progress to grow together with its employees and partners.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Cologne, Germany
Founded
1870

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