Associate Consultant New Grad

About Kinaxis 

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 Tokyo and around the world as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.  

As a global team of Sales, Professional Services, and Global Customer Care professionals, we have maintained our presence in Japan for more than a decade and we support customers in Japan and around the world, including Subaru, Nihon Kohden, Unilever, and more.

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About the team

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.
• 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 seniors.  

What we are looking for

• A passion for working in customer-facing roles and have great interpersonal, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• BS/MS/PhD in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics, Business or a related field with an excellent academic record.
• Ability to learn a new application – Kinaxis Maestro
• Self-direction with the 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.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English and Japanese, both verbally and in writing.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
  
  
  Selection Process: -
  

1. CV Review
2. Preliminary Call
3. Consultant / Manager Interview
4. Japan Professional Services Director Interview
5. Japan & APAC Professional Services VP Interview
6. Offer Call

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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day, when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to a long-term net-zero operations strategy. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the third Friday of every month)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs, training, and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons

For more information, visit the Kinaxis website at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com.

Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Please note that this contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description to identify candidates whose education, experience, and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.