Project Manager (Solution Implementation)

Anaplan. As the engine behind back-office system connectivity, you might not recognize our name, but our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, and Bayer are just a few of the 2,000+ companies that rely on our best-in-class platform and its native AI capabilities to see, plan, and lead their businesses. By dynamically connecting financial, strategic, and operational plans in real-time, companies trust Anaplan to give them the power to anticipate change, address complexity, deliver operational insights, increase profits, and stay ahead of their competition.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our commitment to our customers’ success and our collective motivation to achieve ambitious goals. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, and we behave like leaders irrespective of title. When you work for us, you’ll be part of a winning culture that’s dedicated to creating opportunities for our customers, partners, and employees. We hope you’ll join us. Let’s create something incredible together!

We are seeking a Solution Implementation Manager who will guide our customers and lead blended delivery teams to deploy Anaplan solutions efficiently and effectively. This is a full-time position based in Paris, with a focus on delivering Anaplan planning solutions to strategic accounts.

Your Impact

• Guide customers and lead blended delivery teams with Business Partners to deploy Anaplan solutions.
• Mastery of “The Anaplan Way” implementation methodology to ensure powerful, yet easy-to-use models are built within agreed timelines.
• Enable and empower customer modellers to be self-sufficient.
• Oversee the end-to-end deployment lifecycle of strategic Anaplan solution implementations.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for deliveries, providing regular insights to internal Leadership teams.
• Lead customer-facing meetings, ranging from operational management to C-suite.
• Collaborate with different personalities to align on key decisions, including release scope, deployment timelines, resource management, model design, testing/training plans, and change management.

Your Qualifications

• Self-starter with a proven record of driving customer success in complex customer environments at the executive and department levels.
• Ability to understand customer requirements and work with the team to translate those into simple, usable, yet high-value solutions.
• Experience in enterprise performance management and ability to partner with account executives, solution architects, and customer success leadership.
• Highly data-driven with a commitment to process and excited about driving and tracking a consistent implementation process.
• Team player with the highest level of integrity.
• Experience in software project management, customer success management, and related fields.
• Passionate about technology and how it can be leveraged to drive business impact.
• French speaker, fluent in English.

Preferred Skills

• Experience implementing Enterprise Performance Management solutions.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial modelling skills.
• Knowledge of a formal system implementation methodology – requirements gathering, design, build/test, and deploy (Agile methodology preferable).
• Superb written and oral communication skills.
• Penchant for service excellence and a collaborative style.
• Subject matter expertise in planning and modelling in Supply Chain, Finance, or Sales.
• Strong understanding of data integration (inbound and outbound).
• Passion for business analytics, modelling, and planning.
• Coaching mentality.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Build your job in a place that thrives on diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in maintaining a hiring and working experience in which 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 true 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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It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondences, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcement is to obtain privileged information from individuals. 

Anaplan does not:

1. Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.
2. Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible, and then followed up via written communication.

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