Sr. Application Analyst (15 Open Roles)

[Supply Chain Applications | Anaplan Model Builder]

At Anaplan, we are innovators dedicated to enhancing business decision-making with our AI-powered scenario planning and analysis platform, enabling our customers to stay ahead of their competition. Our shared commitment to customer success and our Winning Culture unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies.

Our customers include Fortune 50 leaders like Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH, and Bayer, among over 2,400 global companies that trust our best-in-class platform.
The Opportunity

Join Anaplan's Supply Chain Center of Excellence (CoE) as a Sr. Application Analyst (Anaplan Model Builder) and help build next-generation planning applications powering global Supply Chain operations.

In this hands-on Individual Contributor role, you will design, develop, enhance, and support enterprise-scale Anaplan models across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Optimization, S&OP, Capacity Planning, Production Planning, and Logistics. You'll collaborate closely with Product Managers, Solution Architects, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable, high-performing planning solutions leveraging the latest Anaplan capabilities, including Polaris, Workflow, and AI.
Key Responsibilities
Model Development

• Design, build, and maintain scalable Anaplan models supporting end-to-end Supply Chain planning processes.
• Develop modules, lists, line items, actions, imports, exports, processes, dashboards, UX pages, and reports following Anaplan best practices.
• Build reusable model components with a focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Solution Delivery

• Translate business requirements into robust Anaplan solutions through close collaboration with Product Managers, Solution Architects, and Supply Chain SMEs.
• Participate in solution design sessions, model reviews, testing, and production deployments.

Platform Optimization

• Optimize model performance, sparsity, calculation efficiency, and workspace utilization.
• Apply PLANS methodology and Anaplan modeling best practices to ensure enterprise-grade applications.

Integration & Automation

• Support integrations with enterprise systems using CloudWorks, APIs, Informatica, MuleSoft, or other integration platforms.
• Configure data imports, exports, automated processes, and Workflow capabilities.

Continuous Improvement

• Enhance existing applications using Polaris, Workflow, AI capabilities, and new platform features.
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement sustainable improvements.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Engineering, Product Management, Professional Services, and Customer Success teams.
• Contribute technical documentation, implementation assets, and reusable model-building standards.

Success Measures

• Delivery of high-quality, scalable Anaplan models.
• Model performance, maintainability, and usability.
• Successful delivery of application enhancements and releases.
• Adoption of engineering standards and modeling best practices.
• Customer and stakeholder satisfaction.

Qualifications
Experience

• 4-6 years of enterprise application development experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Anaplan model building and application development.
• Experience delivering enterprise Supply Chain planning solutions.

Technical Skills

• Certified Anaplan Model Builder (Solution Architect certification is a plus).
• Strong expertise in:
  
  • Multi-dimensional model design
  • Data Hub architecture
  • ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)
  • UX Page Builder
  • Workflow
  • Polaris
  • CloudWorks
  • Model optimization and performance tuning
  • Data integrations and APIs

Supply Chain Domain Expertise

Hands-on experience implementing one or more of the following:

• Demand Planning
• Supply Planning
• Inventory Planning & Optimization
• Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP / IBP)
• Production Planning
• Capacity Planning
• Procurement Planning
• Distribution & Logistics Planning

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently in Agile, cross-functional product teams.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Information Systems, or a related discipline.