at Grant Thornton LLP in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Technology Modernization – Anaplan Consultant
As an Anaplan-focused Consultant 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:
+ Lead initial project scoping, use case prioritization, and connected planning roadmap development
+ Support requirements gathering, functional design, prototyping, and testing of customer solutions
+ Translate technical model design into elegant Anaplan multi-dimensional models based on leading practices
+ Support data integration and migration
+ Develop process and model documentation
+ Lead User testing, training, and deployment
+ Independently resolve technical issues through analysis, debugging, research, and investigation
+ Maintain a good working relationship with clients and work effectively with client management and staff at all levels to manage expectations, ensure satisfaction, and become a trusted business advisor.
+ Build on client relationships by building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and industry involvement and communicating our value proposition.
+ Proactively identify issues on your engagement and communicate recommended solutions to your engagement manager.
+ Other duties as assigned.
You have the following technical skills and qualifications:
+ Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Systems or related field required.
+ 4+ years of relevant experience implementing one or more Supply Chain Planning or EPM technologies
+ 2+ year experience building models with Anaplan
+ Certified Anaplan Model Builder or higher
+ Proficient in multi-dimensional modeling and data analytics
+ Working knowledge of enterprise planning functions across finance, supply chain, and commercial across one or more industries
+ Ability to work independently, manage small engagements or parts of large engagements
+ Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
+ Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
+ Travel percentage: Approximately 40 -50% on average
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About the Team
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