MPO Solution Consultant

Job location: This is a virtual role. You may work anywhere from home and be based anywhere in the United States.

About the team

This role is part of MPO: MPO has joined Kinaxis®, the leading provider of supply chain planning software with applications covering supply, demand, inventory, sales and operations planning (S&OP).  Combined with MPO’s state-of-the-art Multi Party Orchestration and execution platform, this game-changing combination enables us to offer our customers a true end-to-end solution. 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
• Support Solution Architect in providing creative solutions to complex business problems while maintaining best practices.
• Create first version of solution designs, specify interfaces, and configure software functionality.
• Learn our software and perform solution configuration as per the design
• Document software functions and configuration
• Unit test respective components and document test results
• Document the configuration.
• Organize solution integration testing, acceptance testing, and user training .
• Perform training of customer end users on the configured solution.
• Ensure that 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.
• Provide go-live and after-care support, and hand over to Customer success
• Guide and mentor junior consultants on the project team during project.
• Any other reasonable project related tasks as assigned by the Architect or the Project Manager.

What we are looking for

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in logistics, transportation planning and execution functions
• MSc University Degree in Business Management or Information Technology, or a BA in Logistics and Supply Chain
• Good background in Supply Chain concepts, especially in Logistics or Execution arena
• Ability to learn new application.
• 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.

Things That Would Help:

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Technical skills such as SQL, R, Java Script, Python, etc.
• Experience with manufacturing planning solutions such as BlueYonder, OTM, E2open, Alpega etc.