Solution Implementation Manager

Solution Implementation Manager

Customers are the lifeblood of our company and Anaplan is looking for strategic, yet delivery-focused Solution Implementation Managers to guide our customers, leading blended delivery teams with Business Partners, to deploy Anaplan solutions efficiently and effectively.

This includes proficiency in “The Anaplan Way” implementation methodology – For a SIM, this means working to ensure that our project teams build powerful, yet easy-to-use models in an agreed-upon timeline and, in the process, that our customers' modelers’ are enabled and empowered to be self-sufficient.

The SIM is ultimately responsible for the end-to-end deployment lifecycle of one, or many, strategic Anaplan solution implementations. As a SIM, you will be the primary point of contact for each of your deliveries, helping to provide regular transparency into the pulse of active projects to internal Leadership teams.

You will also lead customer-facing meetings of varying sizes and profiles, ranging from operational management to C-suite covering West Coast Customer base. The ideal candidate will be a process-oriented, people-person – someone who is passionate about quality and consistency, yet has the ability to work with all types of different personalities and bring them together to align on key decisions, including but not limited to release scope, deployment timelines, resource management, model design, testing/training plans, and change management.

Insight on your impact:

• Deliver high-level presentations to audiences ranging from executives to system end-users;
• Manage end to end project in collaboration with the client project manager to a successful deployment of Anaplan solutions;
• Act as the key liaison and business partner to the client at both the project management and executive level as needed;
• Identify resource needs, manage resource time allocation and hold the team accountable to deadlines
• Monitor project timeline and ensure milestones are met;
• Manage issues and risk by clearly presenting both internally and externally, escalating as needed, and deploying risk mitigation strategies as appropriate;
• Reporting on available resources, budget, and project status to project sponsors and stakeholders;
• Ability to work on multiple, concurrent tasks and adapt to shifting priorities, demands and timelines;
• Effective communication and teamwork with project teams and collaboration with other departments;
• Understand priorities, scope, timeline, goals, and key milestones;
• Maintain customer focus and demonstrate leadership to drive consensus and project-related decisions;
• Manage client expectations appropriately with the ability to manage relevant situations with a positive outcome.

Your qualifications, your influence:

• Self-starter with a proven track record of driving customer success and aligning in complex customer environments at the executive and department levels.
• Ability to understand customer requirements and work with Business Partners to best translate those into a simple, usable, yet high value-add solution.
• Experience in enterprise performance management, ability to partner with account executives, solution architects, customer success leadership, etc.
• Fanatical about customer success and tenacious at driving long-term customer value.
• Passionate about technology and how it can be leveraged to drive business impact

Preferred skills and technical familiarity:

• 5+ years of software project management, customer success management, and/or related experience
• Highly data-driven with a commitment to the process.
• Excited about driving and tracking a consistent implementation process with all customers in your portfolio.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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