Program Manager - Anaplan

This is a hands-on contract assignment requiring strong program leadership, enterprise systems and integration knowledge, disciplined follow-through, and the ability to influence globally distributed teams without direct authority.

Essential duties & responsibilities:

• Own coordination and delivery oversight for integrations from 50+ corporate ERP systems into Anaplan.

• Maintain the source-system inventory, onboarding roadmap, integrated plan, dependency map, milestones, readiness dashboard, and RAID log.

• Establish clear ownership across ERP teams, Finance data owners, Anaplan model builders, middleware, data engineering, testing teams, and implementation partners.

• Coordinate source-data discovery, chart-of-accounts and master-data mapping, dimensional requirements, history, refresh schedules, and reconciliation rules.

• Drive consistent integration patterns, data contracts, interface specifications, controls, error handling, and support procedures.

• Lead design and readiness reviews; confirm connectivity, security, environments, schedules, and other technical prerequisites.

• Track delivery status, critical-path dependencies, decisions, resource constraints, and risks; escalate promptly and drive mitigation plans.

• Coordinate system integration testing, data validation, reconciliation, user acceptance testing, cutover rehearsals, deployment, and hypercare.

• Define stage-gate criteria and ensure evidence of readiness before each interface advances or enters production.

• Drive resolution of mapping gaps, missing or duplicate records, failed loads, timing issues, and reconciliation variances.

• Provide concise program and executive reporting covering delivery confidence, decisions required, risks, and recovery actions.

• Ensure integrations satisfy security, privacy, audit, SOX, data-governance, monitoring, service ownership, and knowledge-transfer requirements.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

• Anaplan, SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics, integration, PMP, Agile, or IT service management certifications are preferred.

Experience & Key Success Attributes

• 8+ years delivering enterprise applications, data integrations, ERP transformations, or large-scale technology programs.

• 5+ years leading cross-functional delivery across multiple ERP platforms, interfaces, global teams, and shared dependencies.

• Demonstrated success coordinating a large portfolio of concurrent system integrations against fixed program milestones.

• Working knowledge of Anaplan architecture, integration options, model-to-data dependencies, and connected planning concepts.

• Experience with ERP platforms such as SAP ECC or S/4HANA, Oracle EBS or Cloud ERP, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics, or comparable systems.

• Strong knowledge of APIs, files, middleware, ETL or ELT, scheduling, monitoring, error handling, data quality, and reconciliation.

• Experience with financial and operational data, including general ledger, organizational dimensions, master data, actuals, and forecasts.

• Proven ability to manage integrated plans, readiness gates, testing, cutover, hypercare, RAID items, vendors, and executive reporting.

• Understanding of data governance, lineage, security, privacy, auditability, SOX controls, and production support.

• Excellent organization, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills in a global matrix environment.

• Hands-on, outcome-oriented approach with strong judgment, problem-solving, escalation, and follow-through.