BCG Platinion – Enterprise Solutions Manager – Planning Platforms – Anaplan
| Company | Boston Consulting Group |
|---|---|
| Location | Boston, MA, USA, Houston, TX, USA, Nashville, TN, USA, Washington, DC, USA, Summit, NJ, USA, Austin, TX, USA, Detroit, MI, USA, Miami, FL, USA, Dallas, TX, USA, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Durham, NC, USA, Chicago, IL, USA, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, New York, NY, USA, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Denver, CO, USA, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Salary | $190000 – $190000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor or master’s degree in mathematics, natural sciences, information technology, business management, or relevant field
- 5+ years of practical experience leading Planning Platform implementations with Anaplan
- Experience in business process design and configuration
- Experience managing cross-functional, global deployments for planning transformations
- Domain knowledge on Supply Chain, Merchandising, Finance, and/or Workforce Planning
- Previous experience in a management role in two or more end-to-end planning platform implementations in a waterfall or agile setting
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills
- Experience with the management of decision processes at large organizations
- Strong customer and results orientation
- Confidence and persuasiveness
- Experience planning and managing large, complex projects
- Willingness to travel around the globe to work with clients and BCG teams. At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects.
Responsibilities
- Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
- Agile advocates. They are well-versed in Agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change.
- Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn’t always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
- Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.
- Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices.
- Influencers. They build strong relationships to build trust and influence stakeholders.
- Planning Platform solution design and deployment
- Developing feasibility studies, assessing platform suitability (e.g., Anaplan & SAP Analytics Cloud) and issue recommendations
- Supporting core planning process redesign and alignment with platform capabilities
- Developing functional and non-functional requirements for planning platforms
- Leading full lifecycle implementations for Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Financial Planning, and/or Workforce Planning tools
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying UI/UX and planning platform configuration to support: Finance: Driver-based planning, forecasting, and variance analysis; Workforce: Headcount planning, workforce allocation, skills-gap analysis, and labor cost optimization
- Developing integrated solution architecture designs for Planning Platforms, ensuring integration with enterprise systems such as ERP, HRIS, and data warehouses, as well as custom analytics and insight applications (e.g., AI/ML prediction engines)
- Designing and implementing data integration patterns that allow for secure, performant and fast time-to-value deployments
- Creating implementation roadmaps, scoping and sizing effort for planning platform programs
- Ensuring that Planning Platforms align with evolving technology landscapes (e.g., S/4HANA migration dependencies)
- Providing expert guidance on tooling options, offering clear, actionable insights into the advantages and trade-offs of each
- Leading the creation of client-specific strategic materials, surfacing key insights gathered from technical experts and observations
- Effectively codifying messaging and data into presentable materials and being comfortable delivering communications output in an efficient manner – accuracy and speed are critical to success of fast-paced, high-profile projects
- Managing organizational change for new planning solutions by driving stakeholder engagement, adoption strategies, and training programs
- Restructuring IT processes and teams to optimize support for planning capabilities
- Aligning platform capabilities to deliver value-driven outcomes, such as: Finance: Faster planning cycles, increased forecast accuracy, and enhanced scenario analysis; Workforce: Improved workforce utilization, optimized labor costs, and increased employee productivity
- Establishing KPIs and value metrics to measure platform success and ensure ROI realization
- Presenting materials, case updates and escalations to client and internal teams
- Facilitating technical and strategic working sessions and workshops with both client and internal teams
- Building relationships with key clients
- Providing direction on key work items and feedback to other team members
- Managing projects and expectations and maintaining control of situations when they escalate
- Provide quality assurance oversight – Review junior team members’ output for overall correctness, level of insight, clarity of message, etc.
- Promote an overall positive experience for junior staff
- Serve as a role model by actively demonstrating and living BCG’s Culture and Values
- Assisting with business development through writing proposals, scoping projects.
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.