Sr. Solution Consultant, Enterprise Scheduling

Kinaxis; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation

Well-being programs

Career development opportunities

Job summary

A global leader in supply chain management is seeking a skilled Consultant to join their team in Chennai. The ideal candidate will possess deep supply chain knowledge and excel in problem-solving. Responsibilities include participating in business requirement discovery, implementing solutions with Kinaxis Maestro, and providing technical support. Candidates should have excellent communication skills and at least 6 years of experience in the field. Join a dynamic team committed to driving client success and innovation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in supply chain management.
• Ability to work in fast-paced project environments.
• Strong interest in learning Kinaxis Maestro.

Responsibilities

• Participate in customer business requirements discovery sessions.
• Support the implementation of Kinaxis Maestro software.
• Provide technical support to end users.

Skills

Results-oriented mindset

Knowledge of supply chain concepts

Technical skills (SQL, R, JavaScript, Python)

Strong inter-personal communication

Ability to solve complex problems

Tools

Kinaxis Maestro

SAP

JDA

Job description

Overview

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 Certified. 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 deep-dive customer business requirements discovery sessions and develop requirements specifications documentation.
• Collaborate closely with agile team members to support the configuration and implementation of Kinaxis 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 system 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 a results-oriented mindset, focusing on improving client satisfaction and providing a very high standard of service, driving toward Kinaxis’s success.
• Sound knowledge of supply chain concepts, especially scheduling, with 6+ years of experience.
• Strong interest in learning our first-in-class product “Maestro.”
• Ability to work in a fast-paced project environment and coordinate 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, with a drive to think innovatively and a passion for new challenges.
• Ability to solve complex problems, think critically and make sound judgement decisions.
• A passion for working in customer-facing roles requiring high-level 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, JavaScript, Python, etc.
• Experience with manufacturing planning solutions such as Kinaxis, SAP, JDA, etc. is an added advantage.

Benefits and Impact

Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains, affecting real-world outcomes like shelf availability and medical access.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Our customers include Ford, Unilever, Yamaha, P&G, Lockheed-Martin, and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: We value diversity, equity and inclusion, provide unconscious bias and inclusion training, and pursue net-zero operations while engaging with communities.

Perks and benefits include flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days, flexible work options, well-being programs, virtual fitness classes, mentorship and career development, recognition programs, referral rewards, and hackathons.

For more information, visit the Kinaxis website at www.kinaxis.com or the company blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com. Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community and provides accommodations upon request to support accessibility throughout the recruitment process. For accommodations, please contact [e-mail]. This contact is for accessibility requests only and not for application statuses.

Kinaxis is committed to a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use AI tools in the initial screening to compare resumes against the job description; final hiring decisions are made by our human recruitment team.