Principal Engagement Director @ Anaplan

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!

We’re seeking a self-starter with strong program-level delivery experience to join Anaplan as our first Principal Engagement Director in the region—a unique opportunity to shape the success of some of our most strategic customers.

You’ll bring a proven track record leading complex implementations, ideally within Supply Chain, Financial Planning & Analysis, or Workforce Planning domains. You thrive operating at the intersection of delivery and advisory—scoping, negotiating, managing escalations, and acting as a trusted partner to both customer and internal stakeholders. You excel in engaging stakeholders from C-level executives to end users, influencing decisions as a trusted advisor.

This is a hands-on leadership role suited to someone who can run multiple enterprise programs, ensuring delivery within budget, scope, and recover projects that are off track.

Your Role

Lead end-to-end Anaplan deployments with internal teams and partners, ensuring governance, accurate scoping, and uncovering hidden assumptions.
Be the primary point of contact for delivery, aligning with customer stakeholders from operational leads to the C-suite.
Navigate complex programs, ensuring delivery excellence while managing scope, risk, budget, and resources.
Anticipate and drive key project decisions on design, testing, timelines, and change management.
Use your negotiation skills to build consensus, resolve conflicts, and maintain momentum.
Champion the "Anaplan way" methodology to deliver scalable, user-friendly solutions.
Provide reporting on project status and portfolio health to internal and external leadership.

Your Qualifications

Demonstrable experience of program or project management experience across complex enterprise initiatives.
Proven experience recovering complex projects led by partners or vendors. We want to see the proven ability to deliver—and recover—large-scale projects within tight timelines and budgets.
Ideally we would like to see domain expertise in Supply Chain, FP&A, or Workforce Planning but this is not essential.
Strong customer engagement skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate at senior levels and become the trusted advisor.
Agile project delivery experience is essential for this role.

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Build your career in a place that thrives on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in a hiring and working environment where 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 authentic 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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Principal Engagement Director

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