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!
We seek a self-motivated SENIOR SOLUTION CONSULTANT to join our Presales team. Aligned to a Public Sector Industry sales team.
A position with Anaplan’s presales team means being part of a market-leading SaaS vendor and making your mark in a changing industry. You get to meld your love of numbers with your love of sales and be rewarded for success with an outstanding commission structure in a fast-moving, stimulating environment. As a Solution Consultant, you enjoy helping people solve hard problems. You are a bit savvy about cool products and love showing people how those products can help their businesses.
You will join a team of individuals who embrace and respect diverse perspectives, aren’t afraid to push boundaries and try new insights, and are passionate about helping our customers and each other succeed. We work hard but don’t wait for an excuse to have fun. In fact, we’re so serious about it that it’s one of our core values.
Your Impact:
- Engaging with targeted, large enterprise prospects to identify suboptimal business processes and related pain points.
- Ascertaining and explaining Anaplan’s outstanding ability to solve them.
- Develop and deliver planning function-specific solutions, demos, and messaging.
- At times, building Proof of Concept models tailored to solve prospects’ problems.
- Navigating sophisticated prospect environments to facilitate the adoption of the Anaplan solution.
- Cross-training teammates on solution expertise.
- Creating product awareness in the marketplace.
Your Qualifications:
- 5+ years of FP&A (general finance, budgeting, etc.) and/or Solution Consulting/Implementation experience within the public sector.
- Higher Education experience (university system) is a plus.
- Prior experience in Enterprise Performance Management and Financial Planning solutions.
- Prior experience developing government-specific assets from commercially-oriented solutions
- Aptitude for quickly ramping up on new technology.
- Ability to take a consultative selling approach by listening to customer needs and shaping a shared vision for a solution.
- Excellent presentation, storytelling, client relationship, and interpersonal skills- internally and externally.
- Growth mentality
- You’re comfortable challenging old ways of doing things.
- BA/BS Degree in Business, Finance, or Technical Concentration.
#LI-SP1 #LI-Remote
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
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.
Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer
It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.
Anaplan does not:
- Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.
- Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible, and then followed up via written communication.
All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to people@anaplan.com before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.
Top Skills
Similar Jobs
What you need to know about the Seattle Tech Scene
Key Facts About Seattle Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 287,000; 13% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, software, biotechnology, game development
- Funding Landscape: $3.1 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Madrona, Fuse, Tola, Maveron
- Research Centers and Universities: University of Washington, Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
