Kinaxis / IBP Supply Chain Planning Expert - UK

Infosys Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-leading compensation

Global exposure

Structured career path

Job summary

Infosys Consulting is seeking a senior Supply Chain Planning expert to drive planning workstreams across international client programs. You will act as a functional and solution authority, guiding delivery and optimizing processes.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in supply chain planning within consulting, expertise in SAP IBP or Kinaxis, and strong stakeholder management in multi-country environments. This role offers global exposure and career growth within Infosys.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in IBP, Kinaxis, or similar planning tools.
• Strong consulting background in supply chain planning and project delivery.
• Experience leading IT consulting engagements for SCM initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead SCM planning workstreams on international client projects.
• Advise clients as a functional and solution expert to deliver results.
• Plan, design, and implement complex SCM transformation programs.
• Support business development from RFIs to proposals and presentations.
• Contribute to practice development, offerings, and training.

Skills

IBP expertise

Kinaxis

Forecasting

Demand planning

S&OP

SAP IBP

Leadership

Client facing

English

Tools

SAP IBP

Kinaxis

Job description

Do you want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. You'll be part of an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment of 300.000 employees. Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset. Are you ready?

The Team

Our Supply Chain Management Team supports the world's most recognizable brands to design and implement a future ready operating model for supply chains that balance between Cost, Speed and Service. We enable business growth through building supply chain resilience and agility from visibility to orchestration to settlement, shifting focus from cost to high value work that transforms customer experience.

Our goal is to drive innovation and guide our clients' digital supply chain transformation journeys, leveraging innovative technology i.e., AI/ML, predictive and prescriptive analytics to enable decision automation and increased operational efficiency.

We are a global team and operating from various locations in Europe, North America, and India. We focus on consulting services around the topics of Customer Centricity, Procurement Experience, Supply Chain Planning, Smart Operations and Agile Logistics.

The Role

• You would lead Supply Chain Planning workstreams in client-focused and dynamic international projects, with strong autonomy and guidance
• Act as functional and solution expert to proactively advise customers and deliver outstanding results in your areas of expertise
• Planning, conception, and implementation of complex SCM (Supply Chain Management) transformation projects over the entire project life cycle
• Contribute to business development, from the request for information to the proposal submission and presentation
• Participate actively to the development of the practice, including service offerings development support, training, and knowledge management

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of IBP and/or Kinaxis implementation programs in roles like Functional lead, Solution Architect or SME (alternatively: same role on industry side)
• Minimum 7 years of consulting experience in Supply Chain Planning among the following areas: Forecasting, Demand Planning, S&OP, Supply Planning, Production Planning, SC Control Tower
• Must have work experience in leading IT consulting companies
• Ideally a solution expert in one of the leading supply chain planning tools, especially SAP IBP or/and Kinaxis
• Software vendor background (SAP and/or Kinaxis)
• Strong knowledge of supply chain processes, including demand planning, inventory management, and production scheduling
• Experience in Planning, conception, and implementation of complex SCM (Supply Chain Management) transformation projects over the entire project life cycle
• Experience in evaluating existing supply chain processes and identify areas for improvement using SAP IBP or Kinaxis
• Experience in leading the implementation of supply chain solutions, ensuring alignment with client goals and industry standards
• Ideally industry experience either in Manufacturing, CGP, and/or Life Science
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and strong written and verbal communication skills in English and ideally in a second language (e. g. German, French)
• Have a broad business skill set including stakeholder management, problem-solving, and resilience
• Have experience in gathering, validating, synthesizing, documenting, and communicating data and information for a range of audiences
• Project-related mobility/willingness to travel
• Certification in SAP IBP or Kinaxis is a plus
• Familiarity with other supply chain management software

Benefits

Be part of a globally renowned management consulting firm on the front-line of industry disruption and at the cutting edge of technology. We work with market leading brands across sectors. Our culture is inclusive and entrepreneurial. Being a mid-size consultancy within the scale of Infosys gives us the global reach to partner with our clients throughout their transformation journey.

Our core values, IC-LIFE, form a common code that helps us move forward. IC-LIFE stands for Inclusion, Equity and Diversity, Client, Leadership, Integrity, Fairness, and Excellence. To learn more about Infosys Consulting and our values, please visit our careers page.

Within Europe, we are recognized as one of the UK's top firms by the Financial Times and Forbes due to our client innovations, our cultural diversity and dedicated training and career paths. Infosys is on the Germany's top employers list for 2023. Management Consulting Magazine named us on their list of Best Firms to Work for. Furthermore, Infosys has been recognized by the Top Employers Institute, a global certification company, for its exceptional standards in employee conditions across Europe for five years in a row.

We offer industry-leading compensation and benefits, along with top training and development opportunities so that you can grow your career and achieve your personal ambitions.

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