Senior Solution Consultant - IND

Location IN-Remote
ID 2025-32955
Category
Consulting
Position Type
Full-Time
Remote
Yes

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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

India

About the role

The Senior Solution Consultant, as a fully proficient professional, will be responsible for understanding Kinaxis customers’ most pressing business performance challenges and will be committed to helping our customers solve complex issues in their supply chain management practice. The incumbent will work with existing customers in a services sustainment capacity to provide expert guidance for our Supply Chain Execution (SCE) product offering, so that customers can experience the immediate value of Kinaxis solutions

What you will do

  • Act as a functional lead primarily on sustainment projects by providing consulting services to customers around managing the application, configuration changes, product improvements and training.
  • Independently conduct requirements sessions with the customer and understand the challenges they face in day-to-day operations of the SCE solution in their live environment.
  • Configure Kinaxis Maestro Supply chain execution (SCE) software based on customer business requirements, ensuring solution configurations are of high quality, aligned with user stories, and completed in accordance with timelines.
  • Act as the first level of escalation and oversee the troubleshooting and resolution of complex configuration issues for the project team.
  • Consult and partner with Solution Architect for complex escalations or requirements.
  • Execute the validation and testing of the solution, capture user feedback and update documentation for solution implementation.
  • Lead customer training workshops on the configured solution.
  • Deepen knowledge of supply chain best practices and the Maestro SCE solution.
  • Guide and mentor junior consultants.
  • See to any other reasonable project-related task assigned.

Skills and Qualifications we need

  • Bachelor’s degree in in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • 5+ years’ experience working with supply chain processes and/or and Transportation Management solutions such as SAP TM, Oracle OTM or Blue Yonder Luminate applications to support supply chain execution.
  • 2 to 3 years’ experience in a functional leadership capacity for system configuration or system deployments.
  • 2 to 3 years’ experience in business process design for supply chain software implementations
  • Passion for working in customer-facing roles and able to demonstrate strong interpersonal, communication facilitation and presentation skills.
  • Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills, able to synthesize a high volume of complex information to determine best course of action.
  • Self-starter who shows initiative in their work and learning and can excel in a fast-paced work environment.
  • Proven leadership skills within a team as well as a successful track record with customers and executive sponsors.
  • Ability to work in a collaborative matrixed environment with multiple team members. 
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English, both verbally and in writing

What we are looking for

  • Advanced level knowledge and hands-on application of supply chain execution best practices and concepts as it relates to forecasting, MRP (Material Requirements Planning), Constraint Management, and Production Scheduling.
  • Proficiency in SQL, R and/or Java Script an asset.
  • Ability to lead complex business requirements gathering sessions with customers and system end users.
  •  Experience working with supply chain processes and manufacturing planning solutions such as Maestro, SAP, Oracle or Blue Yonder applications to support supply chain activities.
  • Proficiency in SQL, R and/or Java Script.
  • Open to travel 75% on average and 100% occasionally and can work effectively when working remotely from client sites.
  • Flexibility to work late hours to overlap with our customers’ time zones.

#Senior #LI-KJ

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 recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. 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.

 

 

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