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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Kinaxis Planning Data & Integration Lead

Supply Chain ManagementPosted on Nov 9
Full-timeUnited States

About the Job

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years of experience working on integrated planning initiatives.
  • A minimum of 2 years of experience working in one or more of the following industries: consumer goods, high tech, life sciences, or industrials.
  • Delivered a minimum of 2 full-cycle integrated planning implementations from design through go-live.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement integrated planning strategies for clients that align with organizational goals and ensure the optimal flow of goods and services from suppliers to customers.
  • Lead Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), including demand review, supply review, pre-executive and executive S&OP reviews.
  • Develop demand and supply planning processes for clients, including forecasting, production planning, procurement, and inventory management, to balance supply with demand while meeting service-level targets.
  • Enable strategic and tactical plans developed during the S&OP process and ensure they are implemented across the supply chain, including aligning production schedules, inventory management, order fulfillment, and logistics with business demand.
  • Develop inventory management strategies that optimize inventory levels across locations while reducing excess stock, stockouts, and working capital investment.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline operations, improve forecasting accuracy, and reduce lead times; implement best practices and new technologies to improve planning and operational efficiency.
  • Identify and analyze supply chain performance indicators, including on-time delivery, inventory turnover, and order accuracy, and develop action plans to address performance gaps.
  • Develop governance and operating models across sales, marketing, production, and logistics to integrate business needs and strategies into planning processes.
  • Communicate planning performance updates to internal stakeholders, including executive teams, sales, and finance, and ensure alignment on goals.
  • Identify potential supply chain risks, such as disruptions and supplier issues, and develop mitigation strategies to minimize impacts on business operations.
  • Analyze data and prepare reports that provide supply chain performance insights and help senior management make informed decisions about operational strategies.
  • Find solutions to clients’ integrated planning-related supply chain and operations challenges.
  • Advocate leading practices, policies, and procedures for integrated planning.
  • Analyze data and compare performance with industry peers to identify and solve challenges.
  • Lead workshops to identify ways to improve organizations and processes.
  • Determine methods and procedures for completing projects.
  • Provide clients with insights to improve how their companies operate and increase efficiency.
  • Challenge legacy ways of working using constructive techniques that support client growth.
  • Use digital technology to help clients improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Lead medium- to large-sized teams with diverse backgrounds, skills, and knowledge.
  • Manage and coach others while collaborating with internal and external parties.
  • Support client sales origination and thought-leadership development.
  • Ensure projects help clients meet their key goals.
  • Use analytical tools and digital technology to help clients understand how to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Travel as required, with travel ranging from 0% to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Desired Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience designing and delivering integration workstreams that connect planning platforms to ERP and adjacent enterprise systems such as SAP, Oracle, or equivalent systems.
  • Ability to own technical integration architecture decisions in a client-facing capacity, including data mapping, API design, and middleware configuration.
  • Experience managing integration risk across multi-system landscapes in time-sensitive delivery environments.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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