Supply Chain Analyst- Anaplan - Bedford

Supply Chain Analyst- Anaplan · Remote · 6+ months Contract · Responsibility: · Manage the Anaplan platform for Supply Chain Planning. Develop new models, enhance existing models, perform administration activities, and be the single point of contact to the global Anaplan Planni ...

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Supply Chain Analyst- Anaplan
Remote
6+ months Contract


Responsibility:
Manage the Anaplan platform for Supply Chain Planning. Develop new models, enhance existing models, perform administration activities, and be the single point of contact to the global Anaplan Planning community
Serve as System Administrator for Anaplan models. Provide the first level of support to the team for all system issues. Interact with third-party partners and Anaplan support as needed to address model issues
Work closely with the Global Planning business leads to understand and document critical business issues, needs, and requirements. Recommend Anaplan system solutions to address the requirements. Support the design, development, and validation efforts through to completion, and create and maintain user documentation

Develop business intelligence reporting in Tableau or other reporting tools for the Global Planning team to include Demand Planning, Inventory Planning, Supply Planning, and S&OP.

Ensure reports are flexible yet easy to understand and maintain
Create and maintain a depository of documentation. Manage all documentation efforts and ensure documentation is current and distributed as needed. Included in this documentation are test scripts and plans
Manage Global Planning testing and validation efforts to include Anaplan, Excel, and Reporting tools at a minimum. Ensure testing is done consistently and develop repeatable testing processes

Manage the Global Planning issues priority list and collaborate closely with the Client IT community and Global Supply Chain Solutions team to complete and validate items on a timely basis.

Participate in the annual AOP process representing Global Planning
Represent the Global Planning team in Client projects which have interactions with Global Planning tools and processes
8+ years of business experience with a focus on Supply Chain preferred


Required:
5+ years of Anaplan model building and Tableau or Power BI experience preferred
Advanced experience with MS Excel. Ability to manipulate large data sets and highlight variances to team members
Proven experience with data testing and validation best practices. Ability to create repeatable validation processes and present results to management
Experience with planning tools (Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Management). Implementation experience required
Ability to communicate well throughout the organization, both verbally and in writing. User documentation skills required to effectively communicate system use to non-users