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In this role, you will advance the strategic focus of the Anaplan ecosystem at Markel. You will use your leadership, communication, and critical thinking skills to motivate diverse teams, challenge conventional processes, assess and mitigate risk, and manage resources to deliver solutions that support Markel’s business objectives. You will work with stakeholders to drive the Anaplan roadmap while collaborating on strategic objectives and key results.
Main Objectives
- Contribute to the development of Markel’s long-term Anaplan strategy, demonstrating increasing breadth of strategic thinking.
- Advance Markel’s business objectives and results by collaborating on, creating, and prioritizing the Anaplan backlog, identifying optimization opportunities, and delivering creative, efficient, and effective Anaplan-centric solutions.
- Lead managerial responsibilities for the Anaplan Center of Excellence (COE) team, including staff development, goal setting, and resource capacity planning.
Key Responsibilities
- Team leadership: Plan and direct COE activities so that competing priorities are completed accurately and on time. Develop and manage staff by providing growth opportunities (including education and hands-on experience) and clear performance goals, and drive high performance. Continuously evaluate staffing needs and take an active part in recruiting.
- Stakeholder engagement: Liaise with business leads and present key information to stakeholders clearly and efficiently. Translate business needs and outcomes into usability requirements that guide solution development and model enhancements.
- Backlog management: Support the maintenance and prioritization of the enhancement backlog based on business objectives, weighing the cost of implementing and maintaining each solution.
- Integrations and data integrity: Maintain and enhance upstream and downstream integrations to ensure data integrity and reliability across the Anaplan ecosystem.
- Production support: Oversee production support, including day-to-day operations and “run the engine” activities that keep Anaplan stable, available, and performing as expected.
- Security and risk: Maintain and enhance a security framework that gives end users appropriate access and visibility. Identify, assess, and remove barriers within the Anaplan ecosystem, and address risk through mitigation plans.
Qualifications
Required
- Anaplan technical knowledge and model builder experience
- Strong leadership, communication, and critical thinking skills
- Ability to manage and develop a team and balance competing priorities
Preferred
- Experience administering an application
- Experience in financial planning and budgeting
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US Work Authorization
US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.
Pay information:
The salary range for this position is $91,400 - $190,500. The posted salary range reflects the lowest and highest base salary applicable to this role across our U.S. locations. Individual offers are determined based on geographic location, experience, qualifications, internal equity, and other job-related factors. As a result, the salary offered for a specific location will fall within a narrower range than the overall range displayed in this posting. This position may also be eligible to participate in the Company's annual incentive plan.
Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.
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In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.
All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.
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