DACH Anaplan Consultants

Bedford Consultancy Services Ltd; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A consultancy firm based in the UK is seeking experienced professionals to join their team to deliver high quality Anaplan solutions. The ideal candidate will be a native/fluent German speaker with strong communication skills and experience in financial modelling or S&OP. This remote-first position offers opportunities for business development and maintaining long-term customer relationships.

Qualifications

• Native/fluent German speaker with strong communication skills.
• Experience with financial/multidimensional modelling or S&OP.
• A track record of effective planning model creation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality Anaplan solutions for customers.
• Participate in business development initiatives.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues and clients.
• Maintain customer relationships and manage expectations.

Skills

Financial modelling

S&OP

Consulting communication

Presentation skills

Customer relations

Planning model creation

Job description

DACH Region, Poland, Scandinavia and Benelux

We are looking for experienced, certified Anaplanners or professionals in comparable technologies to join our Professional Services team and contribute their knowledge and skills across a variety of industries and use cases in our growing client portfolio.

At Bedford Consulting, we put the customer at the centre of everything we do. With Anaplan’s hugely powerful Connected Planning solution, we aim to enable our clients to improve their decision making by gaining transparency and visibility through business-owned models and transforming response time into real time to make better decisions to improve their business performance.

The ideal candidate will be a native/fluent German speaker, ensuring fluency in both written and spoken communication. While you don’t need to be based in Germany, we’re looking for someone located in a country where we have established a legal entity* and with a similar time zone to facilitate collaboration with our team and customers.

Bedford is a remote first company, as well as providing employees with access to shared working spaces (e.g. Wework/Regus) if you wish to work from an office.

*Bedford’s current legal entities: UKI, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden

Main Responsibilities

• You will work in our Professional Services team to deliver high quality Anaplan solutions for our customers within the agreed timeframe and budget.
• Actively participate in business development initiatives when you are not active in the project.
• Communicate effectively and openly with your colleagues at Bedford & Anaplan.
• Develop and implement the latest Anaplan product enhancements together with our internal knowledge base. Maintain the exchange of knowledge with other colleagues.
• You bring experience with different business environments and dealing with customer expectations.
• Maintain relationships with our customers at the appropriate levels. Monitor progress, manage risks and ensure key stakeholders are informed of progress and expected outcomes. Manage expectations of service delivery to our clients. Create long-term relationships that extend beyond our project delivery.
• You have the ability to take a consultative approach by listening to the client’s needs and developing a shared vision for a solution.

To be successful in the role, you must possess the following skills:

• Background knowledge in the field of either financial / multidimensional modelling or S&OP.
• A high degree of professional maturity, responsibility and motivation.
• Excellent communicator with a natural talent for consulting.
• Excellent presentation, customer relations and communication skills – both internally and externally.
• A track record of effectively creating planning models for a platform user base.
• Proven ability to effectively create new planning applications under own guidance.
• Experience in the end-to-end development of planning models, ideally with Anaplan.

To be successful in the role, you must possess the following skills:

• Background knowledge in the field of either financial / multidimensional modelling or S&OP.
• A high degree of professional maturity, responsibility and motivation.
• Excellent communicator with a natural talent for consulting.
• Excellent presentation, customer relations and communication skills – both internally and externally.
• A track record of effectively creating planning models for a platform user base.
• Proven ability to effectively create new planning applications under own guidance.
• Experience in the end-to-end development of planning models, ideally with Anaplan.

Our preferred selection process includes a combination of interviews and assessment centres. A dditionally, to protect our business interests and ensure employee wellbeing, we reserve the right to conduct proportionate pre-employment checks and ongoing diligence both before and during employment.

If you are passionate about driving business success in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply!