About the roleWe're seeking an experienced Anaplan Solution Architect to work closely with our clients, helping them navigate supply chain transformations and implement advanced planning systems like Anaplan. In this role, you will:
- Lead the end-to-end design, development, and implementation of Anaplan models for supply chain processes, including demand planning, supply planning, and inventory optimization.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, define use cases, and ensure solutions align with strategic supply chain objectives.
- Architect scalable, efficient, and high-performance Anaplan models, ensuring best practices are implemented across modules.
- Use leading planning platforms to empower decision-makers with integrated solutions powered by a patented modeling engine, predictive analytics, and cloud collaboration.
- Translate customer requirements into detailed Anaplan model blueprints in close cooperation with your project lead.
- Drive best practices within the Anaplan team and across projects, ensuring the highest standards in design and implementation.
- Act as a primary Anaplan SME, training end-users and other team members in tool capabilities and model functionalities.
- Lead, manage, and mentor the model builders on your projects, aligning day-to-day execution with project goals while driving consistency, quality, and continuous improvement across builds.
- Support data integration and validation between Anaplan and other supply chain systems, ensuring accurate and reliable data flows.
- Focus on usability, user experience, and engagement, ensuring planning tools deliver impactful results.
- Ensure planning tools integrate critical processes, such as aligning demand forecasts from account managers with cash flow projections from controllers.
- Provide expertise and thought leadership in supply chain modeling and scenario planning, enabling continuous improvement.
- Streamline business processes and enhance information management to foster collaboration between commercial and supply chain planning functions.
- Ensure project control through rigorous model compliance, clear communication, and effective change management.
- This is a unique opportunity to shape innovative supply chain solutions, working alongside cross-functional teams to deliver measurable impact.
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About you- You have 5 years of relevant work experience in the fields of supply chain and/or finance
- You are a certified Anaplan Solution Architect or have a minimum of 2-3 years of Anaplan model builder experience and are ready to become a Solution Architect
- You have worked on multiple Anaplan use-case implementations
- You are capable of thinking in structures and systems and are skilled in translating customers' issues into Anaplan
- You have excellent oral and written communication skills and a good listening ear.
- You have an affinity with one of these industries: life sciences, food & beverage, manufacturing, service logistics & parts or telecom.
- You feel connected with and are ready to represent our company values: dig deep, own it, come together, move fast and be kind!
- You show a willingness to travel globally and to work in a hybrid working model.
