Associate Solution Consultant

About Kinaxis

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

Kinaxis has a well-established team of Sales and Professional Services professionals across the US. Our newest office is based in Irving’s Las Colinas development and will serve as a centralized hub where employees and customers from across the US can come together to work towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains.  

About the team

Location

Our office in Irving, Texas

Start Date

This position starts in Summer 2027

About The Team

We engage with Fortune 500 customers on supply chain planning projects from ideation phase to solution configuration, testing, and go-live to realize significant business results. We are empowered to take charge, assume risks, and make things happen!

Role Overview

The Associate Solution Consultant role is designed for early-career professionals and recent graduates who are excited to begin a customer-facing consulting career in supply chain planning. This position is ideal for candidates with less than three years of professional work experience who are eager to build deep functional expertise, learn modern planning technologies, and work directly with customers to deliver measurable business outcomes.

About the role

What you will do

• Participate in deep-dive customer business requirements discovery sessions and develop requirements specifications documentation
• Perform solution configuration activities under the guidance of senior consultants
• Deliver training to customer end users and support change adoption
• Develop an understanding of supply chain industry trends and benchmark customers against industry best practices
• Ensure the customer is obtaining business benefits as captured in the business case
• Support validation and testing of solutions and capture structured user feedback
• Support data management and integration activities across customer systems

This role offers a structured growth path with opportunities to progress into more advanced consulting and solution design responsibilities over time.

What we are looking for

Minimum Qualifications

• Recent graduate or early-career professional with less than 3 years of relevant work experience
• BS or MS in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, or a related field
• Strong academic performance and demonstrated interest in supply chain or analytics-focused roles

Preferred Qualifications

• Practical experience in Supply Chain, Operations, or Planning through internships, co-ops, or full-time roles
• Demonstrated understanding of core supply chain concepts such as forecasting, inventory management, MRP, and scheduling

Skills & Attributes

• Strong interest in customer-facing, consultative roles
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Solid foundation in supply chain engineering concepts, including forecasting, inventory management, MRP, and scheduling
• Comfortable working with data, systems, and new technologies in a fast-paced environment
• Highly self-motivated with a desire to learn, grow, and take ownership early in your career
• Interest in working with AI-enabled technologies related to supply and demand planning

Additional Information

• Must be willing to relocate and work from our Irving, Texas office
• Willingness to travel (approximately 25% on average, with occasionally higher travel based on project needs)
• Ability to work efficiently from client locations when required

Why join Kinaxis?

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.

Compensation: 77040 to N/A (USD)