Anaplan Product Owner, Manager

Markel Corporation; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Markel is seeking a senior Anaplan leader to advance the Anaplan ecosystem across its global operations in the United States. You will guide the Anaplan Center of Excellence, shape the backlog, and drive strategic roadmaps while coordinating with business leads and cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes strong leadership, risk management, and data-integrity oversight, with opportunities to mentor staff and influence budgeting and planning processes.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Plan and direct COE activities so that competing priorities are completed accurately and on time.
• Develop and manage staff by providing growth opportunities and clear performance goals, and drive high performance.
• Liaise with business leads and present key information to stakeholders clearly and efficiently.
• Support the maintenance and prioritization of the enhancement backlog based on business objectives.
• Maintain and enhance upstream and downstream integrations to ensure data integrity and reliability.
• Oversee production support and day-to-day operations for Anaplan stability and performance.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks within the Anaplan ecosystem.

Skills

Anaplan

Leadership

Critical thinking

Communication

Tools

Anaplan Admin

Job description

What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special!

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.

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.

Who we are

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.

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better. We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What’s in it for you

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.

We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life.

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.

Equal Opportunity and Accommodations

Markel is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic. This includes race; color; sex; religion; creed; national origin or place of birth; ancestry; age; disability; affectional or sexual orientation; gender expression or identity; genetic information, sickle cell trait, or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait; refusal to submit to genetic tests or make genetic test results available; medical condition; citizenship status; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, or family responsibilities; military or veteran status, including unfavorable discharge from military service; personal appearance, height, or weight; matriculation or political affiliation; expunged juvenile records; arrest and court records where prohibited by applicable law; status as a victim of domestic or sexual violence; public assistance status; order of protection status; status as a smoker or nonsmoker; membership or activity in local commissions; the use or nonuse of lawful products off employer premises during non‑work hours; declining to attend meetings or participate in communications about religious or political matters; or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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