VP of Innovation Readiness & Excellence

At Anaplan we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused 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 whos who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola LinkedIn Adobe LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2400 global companies who 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 love celebrating our wins big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led values-based and disciplined in execution youll be inspired connected developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and lets build whats next - together!

We are seeking an experienced customer-obsessed leader to own the creation and evolution of the end-to-end implementation methodology for our software portfolio (core platform domain-specific applications) and to own the implementation outcomes for Beta implementations. This leader will build continuously refine and govern a repeatable scalable and predictable implementation approach that becomes a genuine competitive advantage and key driver of customer adoption retention and expansion.

This position can sit remotely

This is an exciting opportunity for a visionary leader to make a significant impact by setting the foundation for implementing and scaling repeatable implementations of all products.

Your Impact :

• Methodology Ownership & Evolution
• Design document and maintain the companys official implementation methodology & best practices for all products (playbooks phase-gate model artifacts tools templates success metrics).
• Develop and execute to an 80 / 20 principle where the overarching methodology supports all products with specific best practices and assets for each product.
• Continuously improve the methodology by incorporating field feedback implementation analysis industry best practices and customer feedback.
• Establish clear methodology governance (versioning certification change control).
• Cross-Functional Partnership with Product
• Act as the primary bridge between Product / Engineering and the Services eco-system for all new and existing products.
• Partner with Product by translating real-world implementation complexity in Beta and EA deployments into actionable product needs and implementability criteria.
• Co-develop reference architectures design patterns and configuration standards that reduce time-to-value.
• Beta & Early Adopter (EA) Program Leadership
• Own the technical and programmatic success of all beta deployments.
• Personally engage in high-risk or strategic beta customers when needed.
• Systematically capture quantitative and qualitative learnings and feed them back into methodology and product refinements.
• Validation Testing & Iteration of the Methodology
• Design and execute Methodology Pilots with real customers during Beta and EA implementations to prove or disprove assumptions.
• Define and track leading indicators of implementation success (e.g. stage-gate milestones configuration completeness at go-live adoption velocity time-to-value).
• Run structured retrospectives after every Beta and EA deployment to drive rapid iteration.
• Scaling & Enablement
• Partner closely with the Product Training & Education and GTM Enablement teams to translate the methodology into world-class training content (certifications workshops digital academies guided paths inside the product).
• Support partner enablement so that system integrators and ecosystem partners adopt the same methodology.
• Create self-service tools accelerators and automation that embed the methodology directly into the product where possible.
• Metrics Governance & Thought Leadership
• Own Beta implementation-related KPIs : Time-to-Value Implementation Success Rate Customer Satisfaction results etc.
• Establish and lead an internal Center of Excellence (CoE) for implementation innovationreadiness.

Your Qualifications :

Preferred Skills :

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We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce enhances trust with our partners and customers and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity equity inclusion and belonging arent just words on paper this is what drives our innovation its how we connect and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. 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!

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Required Experience :

Exec

Key Skills

Business Development,Eclipse,Economics,Accounting,Corporate Risk Management,Brokerage

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 244000 - 331000