Senior Technology Portfolio Program Manager

Here at Anaplan, we have reinvented how companies see, plan, and run their businesses. Our platform allows our customers to uncover new insights, connect their strategy to their plans, and work in ways they had not previously thought possible. We’re growing fast, constantly innovating, and couldn’t be prouder to help our customers move forward with confidence in a sophisticated and changing world.
We are looking for forward-thinking people who put customer experience at the forefront of every decision. Individuals who thrive on challenges and are ready to grasp the opportunity of a lifetime. Because we fundamentally believe every colleague brings outstanding value to our whole. We are a workplace where each person feels seen, heard, and valued, and can contribute their unique talent to our collective effort. We believe that for ourselves and for our customers.
At Anaplan, we are looking for a self-motivated SENIOR TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO PROGRAM MANAGER to join our growing team based flexibly in Minneapolis, to contribute as a member of the Global Engineering Program Management Group located in San Francisco, Minneapolis, London, York, and Tel Aviv. As an experienced Agilist and program guru, you will work closely with partners across the Product, Engineering, Customer Support, and wider Business organizations to plan the development and delivery of strategic business outcomes.
Partnering with teams based across our business locations, we’re a team that accepts and respects different perspectives towards our work - we value innovation, and we’re passionate about helping our customers and each other succeed. We’re pioneering the Connected Planning field to help businesses make decisions more quickly and decisively than ever before, and this is an exciting opportunity with a company that values diversity and invests in you. Are you comfortable multi-tasking, ready for constant change, and able to adapt quickly? We’re a high-growth company developing outstanding solutions to planning at an enterprise scale - our customers rely on Anaplan as an always-on, shared source of truth as they navigate the constant change and planning required to stay on top in the marketplace.
Position Overview
The Program Management team's primary function is to guide active planning, prioritization, staffing, and governance of the technology roadmap portfolio for Anaplan. The successful Portfolio Manager candidate will be responsible for aligning with the CTO’s direct Level 2 (L2) leadership reports on priorities, efforts, and planning for their portfolio of programs, and working with program management and engineering enablement teams to ensure portfolio projects are set up, staffed, funded and supervised throughout execution. Management of Digital Core and Enterprise Architecture & Strategy portfolios will be the focus areas. Portfolio Engagement Managers must establish effective working relationships to influence and collaborate across Digital & Technology leaders, including D&T Pillar Leads, Directors, Solution Managers, and Project Managers to sustain overall portfolio equilibrium. Portfolio Engagement Managers will also significantly influence and lead changes to the Digital & Technology Operating Model.
Your Impact

• Assess project risks and facilitate project critical issues
• Supervise and report on portfolio value and costs
• Partner with Digital & Technology leadership to ensure allocation of shared resources is aligned with organizational priorities.
• Anticipate demand and escalate situations where resource gaps exist for key initiatives
• Implement the use of best practices to elevate our project portfolio execution
• Understand portfolio synergies or collisions and make recommendations to support impacts/outcomes
• Assist leadership in workforce planning to ensure that IT abilities and org design are aligned to support Digital & Technology priorities
• Collaborate with Digital & Technology Finance & HR partners for portfolio financial, staffing, and governance intersections
• Lead the active planning, annual planning, and quarterly prioritization processes
• Continue process improvement and communication to bring clarity across the organization
• Contribute to advancing the Operating Model to the next level

Your Qualifications

• High organizational awareness, corporate IQ, and an ability to factor in and balance strategic priorities against tactical program execution.
• At least 5 years of relevant project management, consulting, or process re-engineering experience
• Outstanding communication skills in working with senior technology managers, and engineers and comfortable presenting to senior and executive leadership
• Strong networking ability and organizational knowledge
• Ability to leverage both a broad, and deep mindset

Preferred Skills

• Exhibits candor by encouraging open discussion of issues and sound judgment after listening and understanding the perspectives offered by others
• Ability to lead change, work cross-functionally, and learn quickly
• Resourceful, strategic orientation, innovative

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Build your job in a place that thrives on diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in maintaining a hiring and working experience in which 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 true self to work every day!
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