Anaplan Solution Owner - Sr Consultant
Slalom, LLC

Who You'll Work With

Slalom Global Data & Technology is a team of trailblazers helping ensure we achieve our strategic goals of investing for the future and pursuing innovation as a competitive advantage. We empower our local markets by identifying emerging capabilities, building multi-disciplinary teams, and providing access to niche and hyper-specialized expertise.

In our Business Planning practice, we help our clients solve their most complex planning problems, and we do that in a way that makes our clients the hero of their transformation story. We are passionate about and dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive team, recognizing that diverse team members who are celebrated for bringing their authentic selves to their work build solutions that reach more diverse populations in innovative and impactful ways. Our team is comprised of functional experts, Anaplan-certified experts across all of Anaplan's use cases, industry experts, organizational and cultural change consultants, and project delivery leaders. As a top-5 global strategic partner, we are committed to growing and developing our Anaplan talent, offering continued growth opportunities and exposing our people to meaningful work that aligns to their personal and professional goals.

We are looking to add a passionate Senior Consultant to our Solution Owner capability within our Global Business Planning team.

A Solution Owner is the primary liaison between the client team and the delivery team. As such, you should be comfortable interacting with clients and customers to understand their needs and concerns, as well as tertiary stakeholders or product user groups. You will also be working with Slalom-led delivery teams, often leading full to deliver a product through Agile methodologies.

Finally, experienced Solution Owners often play Engagement Lead roles, where they drive future opportunities and sales pipelines at a client, working with Account Leads to identify, solution, pitch and close sales opportunities.

What You'll Do

A Solution Owner's primary role is to drive the delivery of the solution for the client. They will be responsible for bringing together the core roles of Agile Delivery, Project or Program Management, Product Ownership, and Product Management. These roles are delivered with a high-level of awareness and expertise in Software Delivery (SDLC), Business Analysis, and Technology.

The role is highly collaborative, requiring regular communication with business stakeholders, developers, architects, operations, and other product teams. Product Owners work to define project vision by understanding business and technical requirements by conducting customer interviews, analyzing user data, workshopping with business stakeholders, and/or working with their Product Managers to understand roadmap goals/strategy.

They work to distill these high-level requirements into a prioritized backlog of deliverable user stories that enable the development team to know what problems need to be solved and how to build the solution to meet the client needs. They also drive the development backlog priority and facilitate tactical planning on how to sequence work based on what will drive end-user value. These activities will be reported, analyzed, assessed for risk, and managed to ensure project success.

What You'll Bring

•3-10 years' experience in Business Analysis, SDLC, Agile Delivery, and Project Management

•Experience delivering Anaplan, Pigment or other Enterprise Planning Platforms

•Adaptable self-starter who is skilled at creating structure in ambiguous environments

•Strong logical and analytical problem-solving skills; a rigorous approach to project management to deliver enterprise-level projects

•Strong leadership skills, including a history of increasing leadership responsibility and career growth

• Superb written and oral communication skills

•Strong experience translating project needs, requirements, client requests into tangible work projects (visuals, timelines, presentations, etc.)

•Comfortable identifying, managing and working to resolve risks within a project

• Desire to work with a truly dynamic and exciting team, with a "roll-up your sleeves" approach

•Up to 30% travel depending on client needs

Product Definition

•Has translated business requirements into user stories for the development teams to implement

•Has developed and maintained a prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation

•Has developed appropriately detailed specifications for product features, so that they are clearly understood by the development teams

•Has supported agile development by writing user stories, acceptance criteria, testing, and analysis and driven agile ceremonies (e.g., Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Retro, Review, etc.) and principles throughout the product development phases

Analysis

•Has worked with QA, analyzed data, and tested results to ensure integrity maintained throughout program lifecycle

•Has supported external research (such as customers, potential solutions, competition) as needed for product analysis

•Has partnered with product management, user experience, technology leaders, and business stakeholders on product vision, MVP, roadmap, prioritization, and growth opportunities

About Us

Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. In six countries and 43 markets, we deeply understand our customers-and their customers-to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by close partnerships with over 400 leading technology providers, our 13,000+ strong team helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. We're honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running. Learn more at slalom.com.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the base salary pay range is $110,000 to $227,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

We will accept applications on an ongoing basis until a candidates is selected for the position.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.

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