Senior Product Owner – Anaplan | Commercial & Financial Planning

Requirements

Additionally, you should have experience in at least one of the following areas (ideally two):

• 8+ years of professional experience in commercial systems, financial planning, enterprise applications or consulting.
• At least 4 years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager or Lead Consultant responsible for enterprise planning solutions.
• Strong understanding of commercial and financial planning processes, including:
• Budgeting, annual business planning and financial forecasting.
• Customer and brand profitability analysis.
• Trade investment planning, promotional spending and financial accruals.
• Integration of commercial, sales and financial planning processes.
• Proven experience managing product roadmaps, Agile backlogs and software delivery processes.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, Jira or comparable product management tools.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior business leaders and distributed international teams.
• Excellent communication, analytical and decision-making skills.
• Fluent English.
• Anaplan Model Development: Hands-on experience designing, building or maintaining Anaplan models in a production environment.
• Anaplan Implementation: Experience leading or delivering Anaplan implementations, preferably covering commercial, sales or financial planning.
• Trade Promotion Management Systems: Experience implementing or deploying trade promotion management or trade promotion optimisation solutions, such as Salesforce Consumer Goods Cloud, SAP, Visualfabriq or Exceedra.
• Revenue Growth Management Product Ownership: Experience owning products related to pricing, promotional planning, product mix optimisation or trade investment management.
• Financial Planning Product Ownership: Experience managing enterprise solutions supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial planning and analysis or commercial finance processes.

Nice to have

What We Offer

Interested?

If you are an experienced Product Owner with a strong background in enterprise planning solutions, commercial finance or revenue growth management, we would be happy to hear from you.

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• Experience in the FMCG or consumer goods industry, particularly in commercial planning, trade investment or customer profitability.
• Anaplan certifications, such as Certified Model Builder or Solution Architect.
• Knowledge of Anaplan Application Lifecycle Management.
• Product Owner certifications, such as Professional Scrum Product Owner, Certified Scrum Product Owner or Scaled Agile Framework Product Owner/Product Manager.
• Experience deploying global planning solutions across multiple countries or business units.
• Understanding of integrations between enterprise resource planning systems, customer relationship management platforms and data environments.
• Familiarity with SAP, Salesforce or Power BI.
• Experience working in Scrum or other Agile delivery frameworks.
• Interest in artificial intelligence applications for forecasting, financial planning and business analytics.
• Fully remote cooperation from anywhere in Europe.
• B2B contract with long-term collaboration opportunities.
• Opportunity to work with a top-tier global FMCG company on a strategic international programme.
• Ownership of an established, business-critical product with a long-term development roadmap.
• Significant autonomy in shaping product priorities and driving business outcomes.
• Close collaboration with experienced solution architects, developers and senior business stakeholders.
• Exposure to complex international commercial and financial planning processes.
• An innovative, collaborative environment combining global enterprise scale with the agility of a smaller product team.

Project details

Fully Remote (Europe)

Contract: B2B

Industry: Global FMCG

Project: Long-term strategic engagement

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Owner to join a long-term strategic programme for a top-tier global FMCG company.

You will take ownership of an established Anaplan-based commercial and financial planning platform, supporting business-critical processes across multiple international markets.

The platform enables commercial, sales and finance teams to manage annual business planning, financial forecasting, trade investments, customer profitability and revenue growth initiatives.

This is a genuine product ownership opportunity, not a short-term implementation assignment. You will be responsible for the product's long-term evolution, ensuring that business priorities translate into scalable solutions and measurable business value.

You will work closely with senior business stakeholders, solution architects, development teams and other product owners in a global, cross-functional environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Own and continuously develop the product roadmap, aligning priorities with commercial strategy, financial planning objectives and business needs.
• Backlog Management: Manage and prioritise the product backlog, defining epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria using Azure DevOps or similar tools.
• Business Requirements: Collaborate with commercial finance, sales and revenue growth teams to gather requirements, challenge business needs and translate them into actionable product enhancements.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, managing expectations and communicating priorities.
• Product Delivery: Work closely with solution architects, developers and Agile delivery teams to plan releases, validate solutions and ensure successful deployment.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Coordinate user acceptance testing, validate delivered functionality and approve features for production releases.
• Cross-System Integration: Collaborate with other product teams to ensure alignment across commercial planning, customer management, financial systems and enterprise data platforms.
• Continuous Improvement: Monitor product performance, address recurring issues and prioritise enhancements based on user feedback and business impact.
• User Adoption: Support change management, training activities and user engagement to maximise adoption across international markets.
• Business Value: Define and track performance indicators related to planning efficiency, forecast accuracy, trade investment visibility and overall product effectiveness.
• Start: flexible
• Remote: remote
• Location: Warszawa, warszawa, PL