Application Builder - Workforce Applications

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!

Anaplan is solving the toughest challenges for workforce planning teams supporting strategy to execution. We have always had world-class flexibility and user adoption, but now, with our out-of-the-box workforce applications and embedded Anaplan Intelligence platform, we are delivering more value than ever, faster. Our solutions drive some of the world’s largest companies, provide real-time insights, and enable smarter, data-driven decisions that optimize performance and improve decision-making.

Within Anaplan’s Workforce Center of Excellence as an Application Builder you will build out-of-the-box and extendable applications on the Anaplan platform for planning, forecasting and reporting use cases – across industries – including Strategic Workforce Planning, Compensation Modeling, Operational Workforce Planning and Organizational Design, to name a few.

As an Application Builder, you will be responsible for delivering applications based on requirements from Application Architects and Workforce Product Management. Additionally, this role will collaborate with our GTM and Professional Services teams to ensure they fully leverage the capabilities of the applications. This role combines excellent collaboration skills, deep understanding of HR systems, workforce planning use cases, the Anaplan platform, model builder expertise, and an innovative mindset combined with strong attention to detail and deadlines.

• Build and deliver Workforce Applications by leveraging the suite of Anaplan platform components (including model and UX building, user management, data integration, reporting, PlanIQ, etc.) by:
• Partnering with Product Management to ensure application requirements are understood and documented, updating as required.
• Designing and building the application and UX to meet requirements, working with Application Architects where the requirements are complex.
• Ensuring the user experience developed meets UX standards, is intuitive, and easy to use.
• Participating in quality assurance, updating and refining as needed, through successful delivery.
• Upgrading applications with new Anaplan platform capabilities and features, as driven by prospects, customers and partner feedback.

Partner with Center of Excellence Advisors, Product Management, Professional Services and GTM Enablement Teams to ensure the Workforce COE delivers:

• Compelling conceptual demos and all supporting content including training and guides.
• Full configuration and implementation content, documentation, and best practices to Anaplan’s delivery Teams.
• Ongoing improvements and optimizations to existing applications.
• Act as a trusted internal and external knowledge-expert for your applications.
• Potentially support Sales and Customer Success with prospect and customer opportunities and escalations, including enabling Anaplan partners.

• Meet the new release and upgrade project deadlines for Workforce applications.
• Adoption and successful deployment of applications from enablement of internal Anaplan teams through to Customer implementations.

• 3+ years of diverse experience as an Anaplan Model Builder, deploying workforce planning use cases. At least Level 3 Certification.
• Able to bring an engineering discipline to Anaplan applications - ensuring scalability, configurable functionality and the ability to manage your application build activities through to completion and delivery.
• Ideal but not required: Experience with some of the wider facets of the Anaplan platform (PlanIQ, Optimizer, ADO, Workflow and Polaris, etc).
• Experience with headcount planning, strategic workforce planning and skills-based capacity planning.
• Understanding of product management, GTM operations and enablement.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and knowledge-sharing skills, with a results-driven perspective, able to collaborate across teams, with a focus on contributing deliverables of the highest possible quality and impact.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.

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.