Senior Manager - IT Corporate Data & Analytics

Reporting to the VP IT you will build and lead a team of IT business data and process analysts to design and maintain durable scalable data analytics processes and reporting tools that support data-driven operations spanning all of Anaplan’s IT departments.

This role supports corporate functions: IT Engineering/Infrastructure IT Customer Experience IT Enterprise Apps (ServiceNow Workday) IT Integrations and GTM/Revenue Apps(Salesforce). The team will span support and enable IT leaders and teams across 3 global regions to drive track and manage data-driven operational and business KPIs and identify improvement opportunities across Anaplan’s user support processes that help to maintain platform integrity.

The nature of this unique role demands high-energy outgoing positive roll-up-your-sleeves and can-do personality.  As a connector/impact leader with a driving desire to identify learn document and report on new metrics business processes IT systems and technology in support of a SaaS category leading tech company you’re a passionate initiative leader needing relatively little guidance on objectives and outcomes and you’re off to the races to make it happen.

You’re a diplomat with a multi-level view on optics and an articulate communicator who fearlessly dives into building great relationships with Anaplan’s IT leaders and all its corporate business partners (HR Legal Finance Sales & Marketing Executives) in order to build the highest standard of data driven IT operations dashboards and presentations catering to every audience from IT technology leaders to senior and executive management.

You’re a keen visual process thinker who can interview different personalities and translate data metrics and process into insightful and meaningful visualizations aligned to the company’s business roadmap risks and business impact whether in Powerpoint Tableau Lucidchart Excel or even Anaplan’s own connected planning platform (modeling).

As the Senior Manager IT Corporate Data Analytics you’ll also be the primary sponsor for our ServiceNow’s IT Asset Mgmt (ITAM) and IT Operations Mgmt rollouts working with IT Infrastructure and Customer Experience leaders and engineers to build a data driven understanding of our corporate software entitlements technical oversight and spend rationalization towards automated license reclamation and ultimately self-service software.

The broad charter and latitude of this role’s coverage makes it an exciting skill uplift for a motivated up and coming technical leader from almost any angle. You’ll learn the ins and outs of Anaplan’s IT corporate coverage all of its business functions playbooks and leaders and build a meaningful team of SMEs driving technical data ops tracking and standards that translate to all levels of the company (high profile).

Your Impact

• Coordinate with senior business partners throughout Anaplan to identify and track ongoing data & analytics priorities; provide prioritization guidance to team members when needed.

• Drive data analysis projects and identify opportunities for improving user experience and organizational efficiency in the Safety Identity and Actioning business areas

• Provide data-driven methods to evaluate the impact of changes in product features service models and support operations

• Recommend and guide team to optimize queries dashboards data tables automation pipelines and other analytic processes

• Lead team resource planning; conduct hiring training and mentoring of team members to facilitate team success

• Note: this role will manage a globally distributed team with direct reports in the United States Brazil Netherlands and India. The majority of stakeholders for the role are in North America with additional stakeholders in other regions.

Your Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in analytics business intelligence data engineering or a similar role with 1-2 years as an individual contributor in these areas

• Data management experience including knowledge of data RACI data lineage sovereignty localization security and data privacy

• 2+ years experience managing a team including demonstrated coaching experience

• BA/BS/Masters in Economics Business Engineering Operations Research or other quantitative focus (or equivalent work experience)

• Basic proficiency with SQL queries

• High-functioning data visualizer techniques and tools (e.g. Tableau Excel / Google Sheets PowerBI Anaplan Lucidchart Powerpoint or similar tools)

• Presenting to middle senior and C-suite management.

• Comfortable leading a team autonomously with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment; able to adaptively shift strategy and tactics as business priorities change and communicate that to teams and partners

• Exceptional business acumen and experience leading high-visibility projects and influencing others in a cross-functional team environment

Nice to Haves

• 5+ years leading teams of technical engineers

• 3+ year of experience managing managers

• MBA or other relevant post-graduate degree

• Excellent communication skills