Senior Manager, Anaplan Product Management

About the Team

Stitch Fix is transforming the way people find what they love, and enables our clients to be their best selves. Our Product and Technology teams have created unique, innovative software for our customers as well as employees in merchandising, styling, warehouse systems, and inventory management. We leverage data, personal stylists and user research to personalize our service and make smart bets. The result is a delightful offering for our customers and a successful business serving millions of women, men, and kids. We're looking for outstanding people to contribute to our evolution.

About the Role

As Senior Manager, Anaplan Product Management, you’ll play a critical role on the Product and Tech team by managing the Anaplan platforms that enable the financial planning and forecasting capabilities of our FP&A team. Reporting to the Sr. Director, Business Systems Product, you’ll build collaborative partnerships and work across Finance, Tech, Product, Merch and other business teams to optimize the Anaplan environment, enhance forecasting capabilities, drive efficiencies and leverage the technology to its fullest. You’ll manage Anaplan admin for Finance, trouble-shoot issues, drive enhancements to improve overall application architecture and support strategic business initiatives. This role plays a critical part in creating and implementing the longer-term direction for integrated solution architecture across all Finance reporting applications.

The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader who thrives in defining and building solutions in Anaplan and other financial platforms. The candidate will have strong financial reporting, forecasting and product management background combined with thought leadership abilities to innovate and deliver highly scalable and reliable solutions. This role drives world class applications, processes and support for our business partners, customers and shareholders. 

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Lead Anaplan product management, define the product roadmap and deliver business capabilities through technology enablement
• Lead Anaplan enhancements and development of new models and solutions in support of strategic priorities
• Collaborate with business partners at all levels to facilitate issues resolution, understand business problems, develop solutions to address business needs and identify opportunities to better leverage Anaplan capabilities
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, articulate use cases and deliver customer experiences that drive business value and align with best practices
• Clearly communicate project scope, timelines, prioritization, budget, resource requirements and progress on an ongoing basis
• Partner with accounting, reporting, FP&A and Merch teams to ensure alignment of metrics and effective analytics across integrated financial platforms and downstream systems
• Provide internal consulting and subject matter expertise for strategic initiatives involving Anaplan applications, in partnership with the business
• Lead multiple projects simultaneously, demonstrate a results-oriented sense of urgency to drive successfully completion
• Provide ongoing Anaplan user admin and training for Finance users

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 8-10 years of experience in financial consulting, FP&A, fin tech or similar roles
• You have 4-5 years demonstrated experience developing and managing Anaplan models to enable business processes; Anaplan L2 certification preferred
• Deep knowledge of FP&A processes and financial concepts including Sales, Merch and Corporate Finance processes
• You possess business acumen, you quickly grasp financial, business and technical concepts, and are a collaborative business partner who understands the context in which the Anaplan application operates
• Excellent critical thinking, problem-solving & analytical skills, documentation skills and a strong ability to work with complex and detailed data
• Ability to facilitate, drive and execute process analysis
• Strong interpersonal skills, proven ability to build effective business partner relationships
• Proficient at project management and senior management communication
• People describe you as customer service focused, organized with meticulous attention to detail, and skilled at handling multiple tasks simultaneously
• Above all, you are bright, kind and motivated by challenge

Why you'll love working at Stitch Fix...

• We are a group of bright, kind people who are motivated by challenge. We value integrity, innovation and trust. You’ll bring these characteristics to life in everything