Anaplan Product Owner, Manager
About The Position
The Anaplan Product Owner advances the strategic focus of the Anaplan ecosystem at Markel. The role uses leadership, communication, and critical-thinking skills to motivate diverse teams, challenge conventional processes, assess and mitigate risk, and manage resources to deliver solutions supporting business objectives. The position works with stakeholders to drive the Anaplan roadmap and collaborate on strategic objectives and key results. The role contributes to Markel’s long-term Anaplan strategy and advances business objectives by creating and prioritizing the Anaplan backlog, identifying optimization opportunities, and delivering efficient Anaplan-centric solutions. It also leads managerial responsibilities for the Anaplan Center of Excellence (COE) team, including staff development, goal setting, and resource capacity planning. The position leads COE activities and staff development; engages business stakeholders and translates needs into usability requirements; manages the enhancement backlog; maintains integrations and data integrity; oversees production support; and maintains security and risk mitigation across the Anaplan ecosystem. The role requires U.S. work authorization. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Requirements
- Anaplan technical knowledge and model builder experience.
- Strong leadership, communication, and critical-thinking skills.
- Ability to manage and develop a team and balance competing priorities.
- U.S. work authorization; visa sponsorship is not provided now or in the future.
Nice To Haves
- Experience administering an application.
- Experience in financial planning and budgeting.
Responsibilities
- Plan and direct COE activities so competing priorities are completed accurately and on time.
- Develop and manage staff by providing growth opportunities, education, hands-on experience, and clear performance goals; drive high performance.
- Evaluate staffing needs and take an active part in recruiting.
- Liaise with business leads and present key information clearly and efficiently to stakeholders.
- Translate business needs and outcomes into usability requirements that guide solution development and model enhancements.
- Maintain and prioritize the enhancement backlog based on business objectives, considering the cost of implementing and maintaining each solution.
- Maintain and enhance upstream and downstream integrations to support data integrity and reliability across the Anaplan ecosystem.
- Oversee production support, including day-to-day operations and activities that keep Anaplan stable, available, and performing as expected.
- Maintain and enhance a security framework that gives end users appropriate access and visibility.
- Identify, assess, and remove barriers within the Anaplan ecosystem, and address risk through mitigation plans.
- Contribute to Markel’s long-term Anaplan strategy and collaborate on strategic objectives and key results.
- Identify optimization opportunities and deliver creative, efficient, and effective Anaplan-centric solutions.
- Set team goals and plan resource capacity.
Benefits
- Health insurance plan options
- Dental insurance plan options
- Vision insurance plan options
- Optional life insurance
- Disability insurance
- AD&D insurance
- 401(k) with employer match contributions
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- PTO
- Corporate holidays
- Floating holidays
- Parental leave
- May be eligible to participate in the Company's annual incentive plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
