Senior Solution Consultant - Enterprise Scheduling

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 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

Chennai, India

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 in the end-to-end deployment of production scheduling tool including deep-dive customer business requirements discovery sessions and develop requirements specifications documentation.
• Collaborates closely with agile team members to support the configuration, implementation of Maestro software to enable the solution according to our customers distinct needs
• Translate business requirements into Kinaxis Maestro software specifications, following supply chain industry trends and best practices.
• Support senior team members in providing creative solutions to complex business problems while maintaining best practices.
• Participate in data management and data integration activities, including source systems data transformation, data loading, data cleanup and validation.
• Perform training of customer end users on the configured solution.
• Provide technical support to end users and resolve issues of the configured solutions, escalating to senior team members as needed.
• Support the validation and testing of the solution and capture user feedback.
• Actively engage, guide and mentor to develop the skills of junior consultants on projects.
• Any other reasonable project related tasks as assigned by the Project Manager.

What we are looking for

• Candidates with results-oriented mindset, focusing on improving client satisfaction and providing a very high standard of service, driving towards Kinaxis’s success.
• Sound knowledge in Supply Chain concepts especially scheduling with 6+ years of experience.
• Strong intent to learn our first in class product “Maestro”
• Work in a fast-paced project environment and co-ordinate with members at all levels in an organization
• Highly adaptable professional, able to embrace teamwork in diverse and evolving work environments.
• Capability to lead by example, having the drive to think in an innovative way and have passion about new challenges
• Ability to solve complex problems, think critically and make sound judgement decisions.
• A passion for working in customer facing roles that require high level of interpersonal, communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English, both verbally and in writing
• Technical skills such as SQL, R, Java Script, Python, etc.
• Experience with manufacturing planning solutions such as Kinaxis, SAP, JDA, etc. is an added advantage

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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 Ford, Unilever, Yamaha, P&G, Lockheed-Martin, 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 net-zero operations strategy for the long term. 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 last Friday of every month)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs and training and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site 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.