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Kinaxis Solution Architect Specialist Leader

Work You'll Do

This position is responsible for overseeing and ensuring the success of the end-to-end solution delivery process including resource allocation, serving as the primary interface with the client, and directing a cross-functional team to achieve established goals.

This role will manage solution delivery through a variety of activities including process design, data analytics, solution configuration, and deployment, establishing performance metrics and new policies, testing, and knowledge management.

The role requires deep analytical, technical, and complex problem-solving skills with knowledge of optimization methods, financial computations, statistical analysis, and advanced mathematical modeling techniques. It also requires exposure to data science, and associated software and programming technologies. Additionally, this role requires exposure to advanced planning systems and tools (Kinaxis, etc.)

The successful candidate will be a skilled leader with a proven track record of driving results, exceeding client expectations, building trust across the organization, applying critical thinking and business management skills, and managing diverse groups of people and projects.

Recruiting for this role ends on 9/5/2025.

Roles and Responsibilities

+ Requirement gathering for Supply Chain Planning including planning business processes, identifying potential areas of improvement and new development, automation of processes, reducing of cycle times and productivity improvement.

+ Provides architecture guidance on individual system designs; Architect designs and solutions to support the realization of supply chain planning functionalities on Kinaxis RapidResponse.

+ Design and develop technical specifications with Kinaxis RapidResponse applications - working on different modules including Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, and Sales & Operations Planning

+ Develop and maintain System Architecture models (e.g. System Interaction diagrams) and reference implementations within systems of record (e.g. Portfolio Management and Enterprise Architecture tools)

+ Partner with Scrum Master, Product Owner and the team in defining solution User Stories

+ Partners with Product Owner to identify and prioritize enabler work

+ Support Product roles in engaging Kinaxis vendor consultants for system implementation guidance, roadmaps, and features.

+ Configure the supply chain planning systems to support business requirements and design different seeded resources including worksheets/workbooks, alerts, metrics, scorecards, dashboards, application of different control sets, etc.

+ Support data integration with multiple sources and target systems.

+ Work with Kinaxis product vendor to optimize performance and automate processes for sustained value delivery.

+ Update solution documentation, workflows, and system configurations to ensure comprehensive understanding and facilitate knowledge transfer.

+ Support Integration Lead, Data and Technical Architects in the definition of technical data integration requirements and associated Features/User stories.

Required Qualifications / Experience

+ Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

+ 10+ years of experience in supply chain implementation using Kinaxis RapidResponse

+ 5+ full life cycle implementations of supply chain planning projects end to end

+ 3+ years experience managing and mentoring teams in a consulting environment

+ Ability to travel up to 50%, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.

+ Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred Qualifications / Experience

+ Certified as a Kinaxis Solution Architect or has completed all requirements for Kinaxis Solution Architect certification

+ Other leading Cloud based Supply Chain Planning solutions implementation experience (e.g. o9, BlueYonder)

+ 1+ year experience in Agile methodology to deliver large scale enterprise solutions

+ Ability to engage and manage senior-level client relationships.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.