Solution Architect

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

 

Our regional offices serve as centralized hubs where employees and customers from across Europe and the UK can come together to work towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains.

Location

This is a remote position. You can work from home and be located anywhere in the UK

 

About the team

The Solution Architect as a seasoned proficient professional will be an influential and senior level member of our Consulting Team, who will understand our 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 be responsible for working with new and existing customers, provide expert guidance in integrating our product offerings so that our customers can start to experience the immediate value of Kinaxis solutions.

What you will do

• Articulate the value of the Kinaxis solution throughout the customer journey and serve as a product and supply chain subject matter expert.
• Lead workshops with customers to understand and document supply chain software requirements, as well as define objectives and targets for software implementations with multiple levels of complexity.
• Define the overall systems architecture and data flow for customers business needs, including both standard and unique software functionalities to be used as well as any software extensions needed.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation plans for deployments.
• Coach and delegate configuration tasks to project team members.
• Resolve complex data and analytics configurations to ensure the solution is producing the expected results.
• Oversee the successful validation and testing of the solution as well as data management and data integration related activities.
• Provide functional leadership and recommendations during critical deployment escalations or to resolve complex supply chain challenges. Mentor and support all levels of solution consultants throughout the implementation lifecycle.
• Influence internal functions to shape the product roadmap and work on solutions that meet customer needs or new industries.
• Participate in services sales opportunities to highlight the value of RapidResponseimplementation and methodology. Present complex information concisely to businessstakeholders up to executive level roles.

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics, Information Technology or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of broad experience in software implementation consulting in the supply chain planning or supply chain execution space or business experience in supply planning, demand planning, inventory management, or manufacturing.
• At least 3 direct years as a solution architect or lead functional consultant for enterprise level supply chain transformation projects.
• Excellent facilitation skills, adept communicator skilled at managing customer and stakeholder interactions.
• Self-starter who shows initiative in their work and learning and can excel in a fast-paced, matrix work environment.
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills, able to synthesize a high volume of complex information to determine and lead teams towards best course of action.
• Proven leadership, interpersonal and coaching/mentoring capabilities within a dedicated, matrixed work team
• Subject matter expert in supply chain concepts and best practices coupled with in-depthexperience with supply chain solutions and applications (such as RapidResponse, SAP,Oracle or Blue Yonder).
• Experience producing complex blueprints on business processes and translating totechnical requirements during software implementations.
• Technical leadership experience in data integration, data management, systemconfiguration and system deployment for supply chain software implementations.
• Proficiency with SQL, R and/or Java Script.
• Open to travel 75% on average and 100% occasionally and can work effectively whenworking remotely from client sites.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is not open at this time.  However, we intend to hire in the future

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 Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, 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.