United States onlyAs a Solution Architect at Twelve Consulting Group, an Argano Company, you will be responsible for designing and implementing innovative EPM solutions for our clients. You will lead internal and customer project teams to deliver high-quality Pigment planning models that address complex business challenges. You will need strong technical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a deep understanding of various industry best practices to succeed in this role. Successful candidates will excel at balancing competing priorities, which include client engagements, team coaching, supporting sales cycles, and internal projects.
What You'll Do
- Client Engagements
- Lead Pigment architecture development and execution of service engagements spanning multiple workstreams, stakeholders, processes, and data flows
- Conduct user story/requirements gathering and discovery sessions with customers and translate them into project and sprint plans
- Coach project team execution of Twelve Project Methodology (Agile) utilizing Twelve IP and processes
- Advise on common data integration offerings and typical data sources
- Collaborate and communicate with team members, including:
- Client executives (C-Suite), IT, business owners, stakeholders, COE
- Pigment Customer Success and Sales
- Twelve Consultants, Senior Consultants, Principal Solution Architects, Engagement Managers and Account Executives
- Co-manage project budget, timeline, scope, resources, and overall health of implementation with Engagement Managers
- Facilitate strategic workshops with our clients to help define the platform vision and roadmap, and identify opportunities for optimization and improvement within their Pigment ecosystems
- Sales Cycle Support
- Guide scoping sessions with prospective customers to define project deliverables including timeline, roles needed, level of effort, workspace sizing, cost estimates, and the overall value proposition in partnership with Account Executives
- Demo Pigment and discuss use cases within common domains, as well as product features, including ALM, UX, user access and security, integration, and platform new releases
- Participate in discovery sessions for lands and expands that identify pain points, use case prioritization, business readiness, and key stakeholders
- Make recommendations for account expansion and sales cycle progression
- Internal Initiatives
- Empower Twelve model builder resources and provide growth and development opportunities through client engagements and internal initiatives
- Participate in Twelve internal or strategic initiatives as needed to support growth of the business
- Willingness to travel approximately 25%* (dependent on client preferences and need)
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 4+ years in a consulting role or relevant Industry experience (Life Sciences, Finance, Sales, Commercial Planning, Supply Chain, Operations)
- 2+ years of Certified Architect experience in Pigment, Anaplan, or similar EPM technologies (Planful, Workday Adaptive Planning, Oracle Cloud EPM, SAP BPC, SAP Analytics Cloud, Board, OneStream, etc.), participating in all key activities from the beginning of a project lifecycle through ongoing support, following an agile project methodology
- Strong leadership and team-building skills, as well as a drive to continuously learn and embrace professional challenges
- Strong ability to communicate, including with executive-level external stakeholders and internal colleagues
- Proven experience growing junior resources, finding the balance between leading, mentoring and allowing proper delegation of tasks to drive more accountability and leadership opportunities
- Proven experience growing client relationships that foster successful implementations, adoption and expands. Able to gain trust at various levels within organization, including executives, IT and project stakeholders
- Ability to understand and communicate on complex business processes and data flows, and map them into system architecture
Bonus Points For
- Certified Pigment Solution Architect or Certified Anaplan Solution Architect and Master Anaplanner
- Strong understanding of Twelve’s Industry Specialization in Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals and Gross To Net
- Strong understanding of additional core domains: Finance, Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain, HR & Workforce Planning
- Knowledge of Excel, Access, SQL, programming logic
- Developed trusting relationships with Anaplan or Pigment Customer Success, Sales and Product teams
What We Offer
- Flexible PTO and 7 Company-paid holidays so you can take time away from work to relax and disconnect
- Quarterly incentive bonus opportunities
- Competitive health insurance, 100% paid standard life insurance and short-term and long-term disability
- 401(k) with Company contribution
- Employees receive a laptop, and we utilize collaborative technology such as Slack and Zoom to help you work effectively with clients and team members
- Remote work flexibility
- Trendy, collaborative and dog-friendly office at our HQ in Minneapolis (we offer pet insurance, too!)
- Continued professional growth opportunities
- A variety of cultural engagement activities are offered to support our employees in living out our Core Values of Collaboration, Excellence, Personal Growth, and Well-Being
- Volunteer opportunities to help support the communities in which we live and work
- Continued investment in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through awareness and training initiatives
- A high-performing workplace full of some of the best and brightest in the business
Who We Are
Twelve Consulting Group, an Argano Company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. Even if you don’t feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage those interested and excited about this job opportunity to apply. We are eager to meet people that align with our Core Values and want to contribute to our team in a variety of ways - not just candidates who check all the boxes.
At Twelve we live our Core Values of Well-Being, Excellence, Personal Growth and Collaboration every day. Our team is built on a foundation of culture, and it’s this culture that has made Twelve the most innovative, successful implementation partner in the Anaplan ecosystem.
With over 400 Anaplan projects completed, our team has deep knowledge in Finance, Supply Chain, Workforce Planning and Sales Performance Management. We work with companies to unlock potential with smarter data using the Anaplan and Pigment platforms.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Our mission at Twelve is to unlock potential for individuals, organizations, and communities alike. We recognize this is only possible by intentionally building a talented team that reflects the diversity of our continuously evolving communities.
We strive to remove barriers and create an inclusive environment where our people feel empowered to bring their true selves to work every day. We will challenge our team to push beyond their comfort zones. We will intentionally learn, unlearn, and expand our perspectives by cultivating platforms for knowledge, growth, and empathy.
We commit to investing in our communities, partnering with organizations
to drive transformative change, and amplifying marginalized voices.
This is how we unlock potential.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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Supervisory Responsibility
# of direct reports: 0
# of indirect reports: 0
Physical Demands
Sitting, typing, viewing computer screens for extended periods of time. Ability to travel based on client and business needs.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time, exempt position. Days and hours of work are typically Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evening, weekend work and adjustment to client time zones in the U.S. may be required as job duties demand.
