AI Planning Lead | Kinaxis Maestro & Advanced Forecasting

Smith & Nephew plc; Maidwell; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Private health and dental plans

Pension scheme

Flexible vacation and time off

Job summary

Smith & Nephew plc seeks an AI Planning Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of AI-enabled supply chain planning with Kinaxis Maestro. You will own the architecture for advanced forecasting, autonomous agents, and agent orchestration, partnering with business leaders to translate AI use cases into scalable planning frameworks.

Role requires extensive Kinaxis experience, strong stakeholder leadership, and the ability to drive end-to-end delivery.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in supply chain planning across demand, supply, inventory, production, materials planning, and S&OP/IBP.
• 8–10 years hands-on Kinaxis Maestro or RapidResponse experience with end-to-end implementations.
• Advanced Kinaxis configuration across models, scenarios, analytics, dashboards, scorecards, widgets, and control sets.
• Proven experience developing and implementing AI, advanced analytics, and agentic planning solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of AI-enabled supply chain planning solutions using Kinaxis Maestro.
• Own solution architecture across advanced forecasting, intelligent planning workbooks, autonomous agents, and agent orchestration capabilities.
• Partner with business leaders to identify AI use cases and translate them into scalable solutions and planning frameworks.
• Lead end-to-end solution delivery.

Skills

Kinaxis Maestro

Kinaxis RapidResponse

AI planning

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Dashboards

Kinaxis certifications

Job description

Smith & Nephew plc seeks an AI Planning Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of AI-enabled supply chain planning with Kinaxis Maestro. You will own the architecture for advanced forecasting, autonomous agents, and agent orchestration, partnering with business leaders to translate AI use cases into scalable planning frameworks.

Role requires extensive Kinaxis experience, strong stakeholder leadership, and the ability to drive end-to-end delivery.