Principal Solution Architect
Anaplan
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Lead
About the role
- Advise and Lead: Partner with senior business and IT leaders to define planning strategies and deliver high-impact transformation initiatives.
- Design and Deliver: Architect scalable, flexible, and high-performing Anaplan solutions aligned to each customer’s vision and goals.
- Solve Complex Problems: Apply critical thinking and creative problem-solving to uncover root causes, challenge assumptions, and design innovative planning approaches.
- Consult with Confidence: Translate intricate business challenges into actionable roadmaps — balancing technical precision with commercial understanding.
- Influence Outcomes: Act as a trusted advisor guiding customers on best practices, governance, and long-term planning maturity.
- Collaborate and Enable: Work closely with cross-functional Anaplan teams and customers to ensure adoption, value realization, and success.
- Support Growth: Contribute to pre-sales solutioning, client workshops, and thought leadership initiatives across the region.
Requirements
- Proven experience implementing Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) or enterprise planning solutions (preferably Anaplan, TM1, Jedox, etc.)
- Strong consulting background with the ability to advise, influence, and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated problem-solving excellence — capable of diagnosing complex business and operational challenges and crafting innovative, pragmatic solutions.
- Expertise in one or more domains: Finance, Supply Chain, Sales Performance Management, or Workforce Planning.
- Strategic thinker with exceptional analytical, modelling, and communication skills.
- Collaborative, proactive, and comfortable operating in fast-changing, high-value environments.
- Fluent in English and German.
Benefits
- Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
- Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities during the application process
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AnaplanEnterprise Performance Management (EPM)TM1Jedoxanalytical skillsmodellingproblem-solvingsolution designplanning strategiestransformation initiatives
Soft skills
consultinginfluencerelationship buildingcritical thinkingcreative problem-solvingstrategic thinkingcollaborationproactivitycommunicationtrust advisor