Microsoft Licensing Optimization Specialist (NEARSHORE) (m/f/d)

Your tasks

• Microsoft license optimization
• Analyze Microsoft 365 license assignments, entitlement structures and available usage information across the organization.
• Identify licenses that can be downgraded, reassigned or removed without negatively affecting business operations, security or compliance.
• Provide transparent, data-based recommendations for reducing E5 consumption and improving the overall license mix.
• Quantify potential savings and track agreed optimization measures through to completion. Business and technical use case assessment
• Work with stakeholders from corporate functions, workplace services, operations and shopfloor environments to understand actual requirements.
• Translate business and technical use cases into the Microsoft capabilities and license components that are genuinely required.
• Challenge existing assignments constructively and identify lower-cost alternatives where the full E5 capability set is not needed.
• Consider dependencies involving identity, endpoint management, collaboration, security, compliance and automation before recommending changes
• External workforce review
• Perform a structured review of Microsoft licenses assigned to external users.
• Assess whether access and functionality are still required and whether the assigned license level is appropriate for the individual use case.
• Recommend reduction or complete removal where a license is not justified.
• Support clear joiner, mover and leaver rules to prevent licenses remaining assigned after the business need has ended
• Governance and stakeholder coordination
• Collaborate with Digital Business Solutions, Global Workplace, Identity & Access Management, Information Security, Procurement, HR and relevant business representatives.
• Review existing provisioning and assignment logic and recommend sustainable controls for future license demand.
• Document decisions, assumptions and exceptions in a way that is auditable and understandable for business and IT stakeholders.
• Prepare concise management updates covering consumption, opportunities, decisions, risks and realized savings.