Senior Solutions Consultant

Job Description

Anaplan is seeking a Senior Solutions Consultant to join their team in Tokyo, Japan. Anaplan is a leading scenario planning and analysis platform that helps businesses optimize decision-making. The company values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.

As a Senior Solutions Consultant, the individual will engage in presales activities, focusing on major and mid-sized companies in the Japanese market. This role involves collaborating closely with the sales team to position Anaplan solutions as planning and management foundations for clients.

Role Involves:

• Identifying core business process challenges in planning and management.
• Creating value propositions using Anaplan.
• Tailoring Anaplan's features to suit the industry and company characteristics of major manufacturers.
• Positioning Anaplan as a planning and management platform within the client's IT landscape.
• Accelerating the sales process through close collaboration with the sales team.

Requirements:

• Experience as a presales or implementation project member with a business application provider.
• Experience in consulting for FP&A or HR.
• Practical experience in FP&A or HR in the manufacturing industry.
• Technical experience with multi-dimensional models, business intelligence, or analytics.
• Eagerness to position technology in business processes and sell products to solve problems.
• Presentation, interpersonal, facilitation, and documentation skills.
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies.
• Adaptability and flexibility to revise methods and adapt to new approaches.
• BA/BS degree.
• English reading and writing skills.
• Native-level Japanese ability (required).

What Anaplan Offers:

• Opportunity to work with a fast-growing cloud solution provider.
• Chance to solve clients' management and business challenges.
• Excellent commission-based compensation.
• Extensive training and opportunities to expand industry, business, and IT experience.
• Dynamic negotiations with key stakeholders from management to field staff.
• Consideration for work-life balance.