Job description
At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.
What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.
Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.
Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebratingour wins.
Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!
Anaplan is the backbone of business planning for some of the world’s most influential companies, including Coca-Cola, Nvidia, J&J, and Macy’s. As the trusted platform with native AI capabilities, we empower thousands of organizations to connect their planning process across supply chain, finance, workforce, and sales - driving more intelligent decisions faster. By partnering with Anaplan, businesses anticipate change, navigate complexity, and gain a competitive edge.
Within Anaplan’s Supply Chain Center of Excellence as a Model Builder, you will build out-of-the-box and extendable applications on the Anaplan platform for a wide range of supply chain planning use cases – across industries and spanning demand, inventory, production, sourcing process areas.
As a Model Builder, you will be responsible for delivering applications based on requirements Supply Chain Product Management teams. You will have the support of Solution Architects who can guide and coach you on the design/architecture, and you will be able to be accountable for the build activities assigned to you..
Having little or no experience in building applications on Anaplan is not a barrier to this role. We are keen to hear from people with Supply Chain planning experience; maybe you’ve done the job of a planner, provided business consulting in this area, or worked with other tools. If you are willing to learn and numerically literate, then we can upskill you; building on Anaplan is a business modelling skillset, not software engineering/coding.
This role combines excellent collaboration skills, an understanding of Supply Chain Planning use cases, a thirst to learn. You will have an innovative and problem-solving mindset, and a strong attention to detail and deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
Build and deliver Supply Chain Applications by leveraging the suite of Anaplan platform components by:
Partnering with Supply Chain Product Management to ensure application requirements are understood and documented, updating as required.
Working with the Solution Architects in the team to build to their design thinking, and to be able to apply that thinking yourself.
Ensuring that the user experience you develop meets UX standards, is intuitive, and is easy to use.
Participating in quality assurance, updating, and refining as needed through successful delivery.
Bring your own supply chain planning experience to the product; proving input to our product managers and thinking like a planner when building our applications.
Partner with stakeholders across the organisation (Sales, Industry Experts, Solution Consultants, Professional Services, Partner Teams etc) to ensure that they can deliver:
Compelling conceptual demos and all supporting content, including training and guides.
Full configuration and implementation of content, documentation, and best practices for Anaplan’s delivery Teams.
Potentially work with our Professional Services teams when their implementation work needs the involvement of the applications product team.
Key Metrics
Meet the new release and upgrade project deadlines for Supply Chain Applications.
Adoption and successful deployment of Supply Chain Applications through ensuring that the relevant teams are enabled on the applications architect, design, ways of working etc.
Qualifications
A background in supply chain planning is required, either as an operational practitioner, business consultant or through the implementation of other planning solutions in this space.
Able to bring an engineering discipline to Anaplan applications - ensuring scalability, configurable functionality, and the ability to manage your application build activities through to completion and delivery.
A keen eye for the user experience, with the ability to turn complex modelling constructs into a visually appealing and easy to use user experience.
Experience of Anaplan, as an end user or having done some model building is useful but not essential.
Excellent communication, facilitation, and knowledge-sharing skills, with a results-driven perspective, ability to collaborate across teams, and a focus on contributing deliverables of the highest possible quality and impact.
Bachelor’s degree in a numerate (maths, engineering, computer science etc) or supply chain/operational field.
Base Salary Range:
$137,000—$197,000 USD
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
Build your career in a place that thrives on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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