Yves Saint Laurent Anaplan Architect
- Location
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Manager
- Department
- IT & Technology Systems
- Industry
- Fashion, Apparel & Leather Goods
- Posted
- Apr 7, 2026
About Yves Saint Laurent
Saint Laurent is an iconic French luxury house renowned for its influential ready-to-wear, leather goods and accessories. Part of Kering's luxury portfolio, the maison combines heritage couture sensibility with contemporary creative direction and a global retail footprint, offering sophisticated, design-led products across multiple categories.
Saint Laurent (Paris) seeks an Anaplan Architect to lead the Anaplan factory, manage consultants and ensure production stability.
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a cross-functional Anaplan team of Builders and Solution Architects, including recruitment, training, integration and workload distribution.
- Own technical governance of the Anaplan factory: define and enforce model development best practices and ensure platform stability and performance in production.
- Act as primary liaison with Anaplan (the vendor) and Kering teams: maintain vendor relationship, track releases and features, run steering and follow-up meetings, and define roadmaps and timelines.
- Support technico-functional project teams by designing and proposing robust Anaplan solutions and technical architectures for planning and forecasting use cases.
- Supervise run operations for production models: monitor daily availability, diagnose and resolve incidents, propose corrective improvements and escalate when necessary.
- Contribute to annual budget preparation and manage resource and budgetary aspects of the Anaplan factory.
- Provide regular reporting to business stakeholders and Saint Laurent management; animate and facilitate meetings across YSL & Kering.
- Drive and coordinate brand-level and group-level Anaplan projects, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
Qualifications
- Master’s level degree (Bac+4/Bac+5) from a business school, engineering school or university (or equivalent).
- Anaplan Solution Architect certification (required).
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role with hands-on Anaplan implementation and governance responsibility.
- Experience managing or leading a team of consultants or model builders.
- Professional proficiency in English.
- Knowledge of luxury or retail business processes (FP&A, merchandising, supply planning) is a strong plus.
- Strong analytical mindset, numerical fluency and proven ability to prioritise in a fast-moving, international environment.
Skills
Experience
At least 5 years’ relevant experience implementing and operating Anaplan solutions, including team management, vendor coordination and responsibility for production stability in a complex, multinational environment.
Education
Master’s degree or equivalent (Bac+4/Bac+5) from a business school, engineering school or university.
Workplace
This position is based in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
Culture
Saint Laurent combines an exacting couture heritage with a contemporary, creative workplace that operates at global scale. As part of Kering’s luxury division, the environment values technical excellence, cross-border collaboration and respect for diverse perspectives while maintaining a high standard of craft and business rigor.
About Cerulean
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