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Markel Group

Three-engine financial holding: insurance, investments, ventures

Anaplan Product Owner - Manager

Enterprise ApplicationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • Anaplan technical knowledge and model builder experience.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and critical thinking skills.
  • Ability to manage and develop a team and balance competing priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the development of Markel’s long-term Anaplan strategy, demonstrating increasing breadth of strategic thinking.
  • Advance Markel’s business objectives and results by collaborating on, creating, and prioritizing the Anaplan backlog, identifying optimization opportunities, and delivering creative, efficient, and effective Anaplan-centric solutions.
  • Lead managerial responsibilities for the Anaplan Center of Excellence (COE) team, including staff development, goal setting, and resource capacity planning.
  • Plan and direct COE activities so competing priorities are completed accurately and on time.
  • Develop and manage staff by providing growth opportunities, including education and hands-on experience, and clear performance goals, and drive high performance.
  • Continuously evaluate staffing needs and take an active part in recruiting.
  • Liaise with business leads and present key information to stakeholders clearly and efficiently.
  • Translate business needs and outcomes into usability requirements that guide solution development and model enhancements.
  • Support maintenance and prioritization of the enhancement backlog based on business objectives, weighing the cost of implementing and maintaining each solution.
  • Maintain and enhance upstream and downstream integrations to ensure data integrity and reliability across the Anaplan ecosystem.
  • Oversee production support, including day-to-day operations and activities that keep Anaplan stable, available, and performing as expected.
  • Maintain and enhance a security framework that gives end users appropriate access and visibility.
  • Identify, assess, and remove barriers within the Anaplan ecosystem, and address risk through mitigation plans.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience administering an application.
  • Experience in financial planning and budgeting.

About the Company

Markel Group

Three-engine financial holding: insurance, investments, ventures

Markel Group operates as a financial holding company with a three-engine model: specialty insurance, investments, and Markel Ventures (a portfolio of non-insurance businesses). Specialty insurance focuses on hard-to-place or niche risks, underwriting and managing risk through its insurance subsidiaries. Profits from the insurance businesses are reinvested into investments and into acquiring and holding profitable non-insurance companies, creating a diversified, resilient enterprise. The group’s investment engine uses generated earnings to fund external acquisitions and capital growth, while Markel Ventures builds a broad portfolio of long-term holdings in various industries. What sets Markel apart is its deliberate diversification across three connected engines and a long-term, capital-accumulation approach known as the

Company size
51-200
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Glen Allen, VA
Founded
1930

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