Principal Solution Architect - Sales Performance Management

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!

Anaplan is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to join our Professional Services team in the UK—a group of expert consultants who are passionate about delivering real, measurable value through Anaplan’s cutting-edge planning platform.

As a key member of our Professional Services team, you won’t just be implementing solutions, you’ll shape the future of enterprise planning for our most strategic customers. This team partners closely with stakeholders across Finance, Supply Chain, and Sales Performance Management to solve complex business challenges with smart, scalable solutions. From the very first engagement, you’ll have the opportunity to lead design, delivery, and strategic advisory work that drives transformation at the enterprise level.

We’re known for collaboration, deep expertise, and ability to unlock the full potential of Anaplan’s powerful connected planning platform. You’ll work with Anaplan’s industry-leading Hyperblock™ technology that delivers real-time data capabilities, and best in class planning and modelling capabilities. Grow your own skills while helping customers outpace disruption and outperform the competition—by planning smarter, faster, and more effectively.

Think big and act bold through expressing your authentic best self! Anaplan is looking for a tenacious Principal Solution Architect to join our Professional Services team in the UK.

Your Role

As a Principal Solution Architect, you are responsible for the successful delivery of Anaplan planning solutions in some of our most important strategic accounts. 

• Serve as the Architectural SME for large-scale connected planning solutions.
• Work with customer teams to transform and optimise business process through the Anaplan Platform.
• Translate existing solutions, spreadsheets, and business problems into sophisticated Anaplan multi-dimensional models.
• Support scoping, estimations and customer presentations as part of a solution sales process.
• Assist with knowledge management, mentoring and enablement across the Professional Services Teams.

Your Qualifications

We’re looking for smart, consultative professionals who love solving problems, building relationships, and pushing boundaries. We want you to bring your vision, experience, and passion to our team – helping our customers to out-predict, out-plan and outperform their competitors. 

• Tenured experience implementing Enterprise Performance Management solutions (Anaplan or similar).
• Domain expertise in planning and modelling in Sales Performance Management solutions.
• Ability to lead and consult on complex projects.

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