License Advisory Lead - SAP

License Advisory Lead - SAP

• Are you an SAP licensing expert who enjoys turning complex compliance, contract, and optimization topics into clear advice for customers?
• Do you want to join a specialist SAP License Advisory team where you can share expertise, mentor others, and help shape how we deliver value to customers?
• Would you like to grow your career with SoftwareOne USA, supporting customers with trusted SAP licensing advice and practical commercial guidance?

Practical information

Location:  North America  | Contract type:  Permanent  | Reports to:  Senior Director, ITAM Services  | Visa requirements:  Working rights for USA | Language requirements:  Fluent English , written and verbal 

As License Advisory Lead - SAP , you will lead complex SAP licensing advisory engagements and help grow SoftwareOne’s SAP License Advisory practice across North America . You will work closely with regional and global SAP licensing experts, sales, customer success, solution specialists, delivery managers, consulting teams, and practice leadership. As a trusted advisor, you will guide customers on SAP compliance, optimization, contracts, audits, indirect access, S/4HANA transitions, and cloud or subscription licensing. This is a hands-on lead role where you will combine advisory delivery, stakeholder management, practice development, and business development support to help customers reduce licensing risk, improve commercial outcomes, and maximize the value of their SAP investments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead SAP License Advisory engagements across the customer lifecycle. This includes license reviews, audit defense, contract analysis, indirect access, S/4HANA transitions, and cloud or subscription licensing

• Provide expert guidance on SAP licensing policies, contractual obligations, compliance risks, optimization opportunities, and defensible licensing positions

• Present findings, risk assessments, and recommendations clearly to customer stakeholders, including executive audiences. 

• Partner with sales, solution specialists, customer success, and practice leadership to identify opportunities, shape proposals, support SOWs, estimate effort, and contribute to SAP advisory growth objectives

• Develop and improve SAP advisory methodologies, templates, best practices, and quality standards to strengthen delivery consistency and scalability 

• Monitor SAP licensing developments and create internal or external enablement content such as workshops, webinars, whitepapers, blogs, and conference presentations

• Collaborate with global SAP advisory experts and mentor consultants by sharing knowledge, reviewing deliverables, and supporting successful project execution