Program Manager

Anaplan; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 98,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Anaplan is seeking a Program Manager for their hybrid team in Ottawa. This role involves managing technical changes and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver value through effective project management methodologies. Ideal candidates are experienced in Agile environments and possess strong leadership and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Practical experience in delivering cross-functional programs in a fast-paced setting.
• Experience partnering with Agile teams in a delivery role.
• Strong history of using data to drive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with engineering teams to help plan, develop, and release value to customers.
• Building and maintaining dashboards in Jira and Confluence.
• Improving processes, practices, and culture for Agile efficiency.

Skills

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Data-driven decision-making

Communication

Leadership

Education

Project or Program Management Qualifications (PRINCE2, PMP, SAFE)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!

At Anaplan, we are seeking a Program Manager to join our Program and Portfolio Management Team (PPM) within the GPTO (Product and Technology) organization. This role is Full-Time and Hybrid, based in our Ottawa office for 2-3 days a week.

Our PPM team members are based in multiple locations, and we partner with a wide variety of stakeholders, including Engineering and Product, Finance, and Go-to-Market. Our role is to support our Engineering and Product Teams in delivering technical change across software, platform, and infrastructure. We pride ourselves on our friendly and approachable style and play an integral part in providing value to our customers. As part of our team, you'll be responsible for managing end-to-end technical changes via programs of work in one or more of our delivery pillars. As an experienced program manager, you'll be comfortable taking responsibility for complex programs of work, and you'll be supported every step of the way by our knowledgeable team.

At Anaplan, we're a team that embraces and respects different perspectives towards our work. We aren't afraid to try new ideas and are passionate about helping our customers and each other succeed. This is a rewarding career with a company that values diversity and invests in you. You'll need to be comfortable with multitasking and able to adapt quickly to change. We're a high-growth company developing best-in-class solutions for enterprise-scale planning. Our customers rely on Anaplan as an always-on, shared source of truth as they navigate the constant change and planning required to stay ahead in the marketplace—we're pioneering the Scenario-Based Planning discipline to help businesses make decisions more quickly and decisively than ever before. If you're ready to help us solve unique challenges that no one is solving in the tech space yet, keep reading.

Your Impact

• Partnering up with engineering teams to help plan, develop, and release value to our customers
• Providing insight by helping your teams to track metrics that align to business outcomes
• Improving our processes, practices, and culture so that we are at the top of our Agile game
• Building and maintaining dashboards in Jira and Confluence that show us where we are at and if we are going to achieve our objectives
• Driving common approaches that make it simpler for the teams and leaders, allowing them to focus on the big-picture problems
  
  

Your Qualifications

• Practical experience in delivering cross-functional programs in a fast-paced setting
• Project or Program Management Qualifications (PRINCE2, PMP, SAFE or other equivalent)
• Experience in partnering with Agile teams in a delivery role
• Passionate about problem-solving and making a difference
• Team-focused – enthusiastic, approachable, collaborative, knowledgeable, and flexible.
• Strong history of using data to drive decisions
• Strong leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to lead via influence in cross-functional environments.
• Excellent communication skills, in particular communicating technical concepts between audiences of varying backgrounds
• Experience with change management, in particular, new process definition/rollout
  
  

Bonus Points

• Experience of working with Atlassian suite products; Jira, Jira Align & Confluence
• Formal Scrum or Agile Qualifications
• Experience with managing software delivery, continuous integration, and delivery pipelines
  
  

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusionand Belonging

Build your career in a place that thrives on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in a hiring and working environment where 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 authentic self to work every day!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer

It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.

Anaplan does not:

• Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.
• Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible, and then followed up via written communication.
  
  

All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to [e-mail] before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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