Job Description

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers based in Ottawa, Canada. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, and support 40,000+ users in over 100 countries. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries. We are expanding our team in Chennai and around the world as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Our journey in India began in 2020 and we have been growing steadily since then! Building a high-trust and high-performance culture is important to us and we are proud to be Great Place to Work® CertifiedTM. Our state-of-the-art office, located in the World Trade Centre in Chennai, offers our growing team space for expansion and collaboration.

Location
India, Remote.
As a member of our Consulting Team, you understand our customers’ most pressing business performance challenges and you are committed to helping our customers solve complex challenges in the distributed value chain that is prevalent in manufacturing today.

What you will do

• Participate in deep-dive customer business requirements discovery sessions and develop requirements specifications documentation.
• Support Solution Architect in providing creative solutions to complex business problems while maintaining best practices.
• Guide and mentor junior consultants on the project team during project.
• Learn Maestro software and perform solution configuration.
• Perform training of customer end users on the configured solution.
• Understand supply chain industry trends and benchmark customer against the same.
• Ensure the customer is obtaining the business benefits as captured in the business case.
• Support the validation and testing of the solution and capture user feedback.
• Support data management and data integration related activities.
• Any other reasonable project related tasks as assigned by the Project Manager.

Technologies we use

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Technical skills such as SQL, R, Java Script, Python, etc.
• Experience with manufacturing planning solutions such as Kinaxis, SAP, JDA, etc

What we are looking for

• A passion for working in customer facing roles and you have great interpersonal, communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in manufacturing, production planning, demand management industry role and/or business software consulting role.
• BS/MS/PhD in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics or a related field with an excellent academic record.
• Good background in Supply Chain engineering concepts and understanding of statistical forecasting, inventory management, MRP, scheduling, etc.
• Ability to learn a new application – Maestro.
• Self-direction with ability to excel in a fast paced work environment.
• Work well in a team environment and have the ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization.
• Open to travel 75% on average and 100% occasionally and also can work effectively when working remotely from the client.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.