Anaplan Platform Manager

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The Anaplan Platform Manager will be responsible for overseeing the Anaplan platform's strategic direction, implementation, and ongoing management. This role involves collaborating with various departments to ensure the platform meets business needs and drives efficiency in financial planning and analysis. The overall objective of the role is to build the Anaplan Centre of Excellence as a cross functional capability across Sky.

What you'll do :

• Platform Strategy and Management : Develop, communicate and execute the Anaplan platform strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and future planning vision.
• Vendor Management : Manage relationships with Anaplan and other vendors, including contract negotiations and license management.
• Platform Operations : Oversee the design, build, deployment, and management of Anaplan models and data pipelines.
• Stakeholder Engagement : Engage with business stakeholders to manage demand, gather requirements, and ensure the platform delivers value.
• Incident and Service Management : Ensure timely resolution of incidents and service requests, including access management and compliance with IT security standards.
• Team Leadership : Lead and mentor a team of Anaplan model builders, analysts, and administrators. Ensure workload is prioritized, resourced and scheduled to meet the business needs.
• Change Management : Oversee change management processes, including system architecture, resource management, and deployment management.
• Ownership : Overall ownership of the entire end to end service ensuring that you work and communicate effectively with technology and business teams.
• Build CoE : "Develop the Sky Anaplan Centre of Excellence, with the ultimate aim of owning and managing all Anaplan instances at Sky as well as collaborating with any other Anaplan instance owners in the Group Comcast organisation.

What you'll bring : "

Team overview :

Group ERP - Finance and Procurement

The Finance and Procurement Team sit within the wider Group ERP directorate. Th is d irectorate report into the Comcast Technology leadership team and consequently we collaborate closely with our Comcast counterparts. We are accountable for several critical Business to Business applications as well key employees facing solutions. The team manages development and support for the SAP Sky Group Finance Application used for B2B finance transaction s and for Month End and Year End reporting to Comcast, in addition to this we configure and support ARIBA for all Group Procurement and Concur for all employee expenses. We work closely with Senior Sky Stakeholders in the business to drive direction for the solutions as well as collaborating with colleagues in all the Sky European territories to ensure we meet all local legal and regulatory requirements .

The rewards

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Inclusion & how you'll work :

Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky.

We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.

Your office space : Osterley

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

We'd love to hear from you

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If you believe in better, we'll back you all the way.

Just so you know : if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.