Anaplan Solution Architect

Job Description

Your Career

This position will be responsible for building, managing, and maintaining new and existing model infrastructures in the Sales Planning tool, for example Anaplan, Pigment, or equivalent. This position will report directly to our Manager of Business Systems for Sales Planning, and the broader business community, to modify models and dashboards within the system.  The primary focus will be to work on developing requirements for any proposed changes to the system or any other technical properties. As a Model Builder, you will partner with key stakeholders in various teams, including our Global Planning Organization, Theatre Sales Operations Teams, and Strategic Analytics Team to drive project execution from discovery through closure. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working in a team and a matrix environment. This position works across department and functional lines on a variety of programs that range in scope, risk and complexity with an eye toward continuous improvement.

Your Impact

• Work with other team members to translate existing solutions, complex spreadsheets and business problems into elegant, intuitive multi-dimensional models
• Modify existing models as part of a connected solution, optimization, or to incorporate new functionality
• Provide candid, meaningful feedback and progress updates in a timely manner to the Business Partner and team
• Develop model documentation
• Participate in data integration and migration solutions
• Lead UAT testing and deployment
• Maintain Opportunity Model infrastructure for developed models and make changes based on line of business feedback
• Build and maintain new models for future phases of the system implementation
• Lead data stewardship efforts across source systems and Pigment
• Liaison with multiple teams that include Sales Operations, IT teams and Finance and Operations users
• Conduct administrative tasks as needed associated with the Pigment platform
• Research data questions that arise from regular usage of the platform
• User support on calculations/logic to address any questions that arise
• Identify business requirements and build user stories to support enhancements for the platform
• Training new users on the Pigment platform

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, MIS or related field or equivalent military experience required
• Minimum 2 years experience in Model building / Development for Pigment or Anaplan
• Level 2 , Level 3 Certification in Anaplan or Pigment Certification (preferred) 
• Excellent Communication and Prioritization skills
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience in efficiently designing and maintaining complex models
• Familiarity with basic data integration scripting concepts and ETL technologies preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge of a formal system implementation methodology – requirements gathering, design, build/test and deploy (Agile methodology preferable)
• Experience building models in a Sales environment strongly preferred 
• Strong understanding of data integration (inbound and outbound)
• Experience with Salesforce or other sales systems and tools is a plus
• Passion for business analytics, modeling and planning
• Excellent problem solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Desire to work with a truly dynamic and exciting team, with a “roll-up your sleeves” approach