Solution Architect - Optimiser

Posted 13 Days Ago
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London, Greater London, England
1-3 Years Experience
Information Technology
The Role
Anaplan is seeking an Optimiser Expert to join their Professional Services team. The role involves translating business challenges into solution designs, modeling mathematical problems in Anaplan, and providing architectural expertise for large-scale planning solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 want you to think big and act bold through expressing your authentic best self! Anaplan is looking for a tenacious Solution Architect Optimiser to join our Professional Services team. This is a stellar opportunity to get involved in a highly visible, large scale SaaS cloud company. This role is an immediate full-time position. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and tackle unique problems that no one else is solving, keep reading.

Anaplan is changing the way companies plan and this isn’t Customer Success as usual. We’re looking for someone who delights in the most detailed and complicated puzzles. A fantastic opportunity for a high achiever to be able interpret sophisticated business challenges into solution designs for clients.

We're not looking for average. Do you enjoy diving into issues and designing complex solutions? Do you have a passion for data, multi-dimensional modelling, and data integration? If so, this job is for you.

Your Impact

As an architect, you are primarily responsible for the successful delivery of Anaplan planning solutions in strategic accounts. You will:

  • Translate existing solutions, spreadsheets, and business problems into sophisticated Anaplan multi-dimensional models.
  • Model the business use case into a mathematical problem that will fit into Anaplan.
  • Modify existing models as part of a connected solution, optimisation, or to incorporate new functionality.
  • Serve as the architectural SME for large-scale connected planning solutions.
  • Exemplify The Anaplan Way.
  • Provide candid, important feedback and progress updates in a timely manner to the Business Partner and team.
  • Develop model documentation.
  • Participate in data integration and migration solutions.
  • Participate and/or lead UAT testing and deployment.

Your Qualifications

  • Significant working experience in modelling Mathematical optimisation techniques such as: Linear Programming, Heuristics developments, nonlinear programming.
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel / financial modelling skills.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of a formal system implementation methodology – requirements gathering, design, build/test and deploy (Agile methodology preferable).
  • A strong focus on customer interaction and satisfaction.
  • Shown ability to lead execute responsibilities simultaneously.
  • Appetite for service excellence and a collaborative style.
  • Domain expertise in planning and modelling in Supply Chain, Finance or Sales strongly preferred.
  • Strong understanding of data integration (inbound and outbound).
  • Passion for business analytics, modelling, and planning.
  • A coaching mentality.
  • Strong desire to excel and be committed to gaining exposure to multiple industries while further developing your career.



Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusionand Belonging 

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. 

Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer

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 correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.

Anaplan does not: 

  • 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.
  • 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. 

ll emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to [email protected] before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.  

Top Skills

Excel
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
2,194 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Anaplan is building a future where connected leaders and teams are able to constantly adapt, transform and reinvent their businesses. We make it possible to share actionable insights, empower and unleash creativity, and drive innovation. With Anaplan, finance and operational leaders across the organization can model complex scenarios, forecast continuously with added intelligence, and make agile decisions with confidence.

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