Technology Modernization - Anaplan Director at GT Org
GT Org · New York, United States Of America · Hybrid
- Senior
- Office in New York
Technology Modernization - Anaplan Director
As an Anaplan-focused Director within the Technology Modernization practice, you will help organizations proactively shape and implement their overall supply chain strategy and supporting initiatives. Specific to client interaction, you will play a key role in the delivery of supply chain engagements and work with chief supply chain officers, chief operating officers, chief financial officers, and other senior client leaders to demonstrate your supply chain subject matter expertise as we seek to help them implement supply chain solutions in support of their broader supply chain strategy and goal of creating value.
Your day-to-day may include:
- Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases
- Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design and transformational goals
- Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing
- Help to create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption
- Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment
- Provide post-production support
- Manage full life cycle implementations
- Manage resources and budget on client projects
- Manage teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
- Identify business opportunities to increase usability and profitability of information architecture
- Experience with program leadership, governance and change enablement
- Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
- Assist practice leadership in creating proposals, budgets, and work plans. Participate in other business development activities as appropriate
- Interview campus and/or experienced candidates
- Other duties as assigned
You have the following technical skills and qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Information Technology, MIS or related field required. A Master’s degree is a plus.
- 10+ years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics and reports.
- Experience with EPM Application Integration & back-end data connectivity applications.
- Experience installing/configuring/implementing Anaplan Applications.
- Knowledge of Anaplan EPM
- Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects.
- Strong leadership skills: able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents
- Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives
- Ability to work additional hours as needed
- Ability to travel to various client sites as needed on short notice
- Travel percentage: up to 40%
- Consistent with the firm’s hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least two days per week, either at a GT office or client site
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Company
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