About the job
At Anaplan, we pride ourselves on being innovators dedicated to enhancing business decision-making through our advanced AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform. Our mission is to empower customers to stay ahead of their competition and the market.
What brings Anaplanners together across various teams and regions is our shared commitment to our customers' success and our Winning Culture.
Our esteemed clientele includes some of the top names in the Fortune 50, such as Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH, and Bayer, over 2,400 global companies trust our industry-leading platform.
Our Winning Culture fuels our teams of innovators. We celebrate diverse thoughts and ideas, act as leaders regardless of titles, strive to achieve ambitious goals, and rejoice in our successes, both big and small.
Guided by principles that are strategy-led, values-based, and disciplined in execution, you will find inspiration, connection, growth, and rewards here. Embrace your uniqueness and join us in building the future together!
Anaplan integrates and enhances all planning-related operations in corporate management, including finance, supply chain, sales, and HR. In the realm of planning and performance management, where many Japanese firms continue to rely on Excel, we provide centralized management and swift simulations on the cloud to enable timely and quality decision-making. Unlike mere BI tools that aggregate and visualize data, we offer simulations and analyses based on multiple scenarios to support rapid and accurate management judgments.
◆ Responsibilities: Engage in comprehensive pre-sales activities targeting the SCM sector primarily within the Japanese market.
◆ Key Themes: Manage the following planning and management operations:
・SCM
- Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Demand-Supply Coordination, Procurement Planning
◆ Primary Missions:
- Identify challenges in customers' planning and management processes and propose improvements utilizing Anaplan.
- Create differentiated value propositions leveraging Anaplan's functionalities and strengths, tailored to the customer's industry and corporate characteristics.
- Position Anaplan as the planning and management platform within the customer’s IT landscape.
- Collaborate with the sales team to accelerate deals and maximize value.
- Continually deepen industry, operational, and product knowledge through cross-training and enablement.
- Contribute to enhancing Anaplan's market recognition.
Pre-sales Cycle and Key Tasks:
1. Lead Generation:
- Deliver presentations and demos at marketing events.
- Produce sales collateral.
- Build demo environments for sales.
- Support account/deal planning for the sales team.
2. Contribution to Sales Activities:
- Develop customer understanding and hypothesis on issues.
- Organize operational issues and hypotheses based on management planning and external information.
Conceptual Demos:
- Present new planning and management models using existing demos.
- Delve deeper into issues and uncover latent challenges through demos.
Workshops:
- Define customer understanding and scope.
- Organize current challenges and design desired operational states.
- Consider and visualize ROI and management effects.
- Understand the entire system landscape.
Value Proposition to Customer Key Personnel:
- Engage in discussions with stakeholders from management to field personnel.
- Create responses for RFI/RFP and deliverables from workshops.
- Collaborate with the sales team.
Custom Demos and Hands-on Sessions:
- Build no-code planning applications using Excel-like functions.
- Conduct hands-on sessions for customers.
