Job Summary

SW Licensing Specialist

Job Details

- Banking Finance

- Other

- Mumbai

- Permanent / Full Time

Role Overview The Software Licensing Specialist is responsible for the strategic management, governance, and optimization of software licensing. This role serves as the subject matter expert for software licensing, vendor agreements, compliance management, and cost optimization initiatives, ensuring that software assets are effectively governed throughout their lifecycle. The position partners closely with Procurement, Finance, Technical Services, Sales, Customer Success, and Software Vendors to maximize licensing value, mitigate commercial and compliance risks, and support informed business decision-making.

This role focuses on commercial licensing governance, compliance assurance, vendor engagement, reporting, and optimization activities rather than technical license deployment or infrastructure administration. This role will not be applying licenses or performing any core technical tasks (ex -logging onto the servers)

Role Responsibilities

- License Management: The core function is to manage the entire software lifecycle, from acquisition to retirement. This includes tracking software licenses, maintaining records of agreements, and ensuring compliance with terms and conditions.

- Compliance Risk Management: Ensuring that the organization adheres to software licensing terms and conditions is vital. This involves monitoring software usage, identifying potential compliance issues, and implementing strategies to mitigate risks associated with unauthorized installations or usage.

- Cost Optimization: Work to optimize software spending by identifying opportunities for license consolidation, re-allocation of unused licenses,



and exploring alternative licensing models.

- Vendor Management: Act as a point of contact for software vendors, managing relationships, negotiating contracts, and facilitating communication between the organization and vendors.

- Reporting Analysis: This role may involve generating reports on software usage, license compliance, and cost analysis, providing insights for decision-making.

- Software Onboarding and Offboarding: Facilitating the onboarding of new software and ensuring proper offboarding of software and licenses when they are no longer needed.

- Software Audits: Assisting with software audits conducted by vendors or internal teams to verify compliance.

Key Competencies

- Leadership Behaviours - Create an inspiring vision that people want to be a part of; Generate a can do approach within our teams;

- Thinking and acting strategically - Consistently demonstrates thinking outside the box to achieve outcomes and maximise effectiveness, regularly holds strategic engagement sessions with internal staff customers via workshops and strategic IT roadmaps, regular utilisation of resources to foster creative ideas and a differentiated approach where warranted.

- Communication - Consistently handles customer push back, complaints and other issues in a professional, empathetic and constructive manner,



questioning listening - Is highly effective in the skills of questioning and listening to really understand the customers situation and needs, communicating value - Displays high levels of expertise in developing and presenting the companys products, services and solutions in a manner that is clearly differentiated from the competition.

- Stakeholder involvement - Consistent identification and involvement of stakeholders who need to be consulted in the decision-making process

Key Qualifications - Experience Essential

- Minimum 4 years experience in the software procurement or similar role.

- Basic Understanding of software licensing models with various vendors.

- 2 Years of experience with managing stakeholders and co-ordination

- Strong verbal written communication skills are needed for interacting with various stakeholders and presenting information clearly.

- Expertise in MS Excel Word.

- Ability to analyse data, identify trends, and make recommendations related to licensing and cost optimization.

- Excellent comprehension planning skills

Desirable

- The ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize work, and maintain accurate records is crucial.

- Negotiation skills to work with vendors on contract terms and pricing.

- Efficiency enhancement using AI or any other technology.

- Prior experience within an outsourced service delivery setting

- Project Management

- Working knowledge of ITSM service delivery concepts

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📌 SW Licensing Specialist (Mumbai)
🏢 Brennan It
📍 Mumbai