Job Description
Title: Senior Solution Consultant – Remote
Location: USA
At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.
Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.
We make the world better, and you can too.
Senior Solution Consultant
Job location: This is a virtual role. You may work anywhere from home and be based anywhere in the United States.
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. Working with new and existing customers, you will provide expert guidance in integrating our product offerings to deliver value.
What you will do
- Participate in deep-dive customer business requirements discovery sessions and develop integration requirements specifications
- Learn the Rapid Response integration platform
- Support deployment workshops to help customers achieve immediate value from their investment
- Perform integration configuration – mapping, loading, transforming and validating data required to support our customer’s unique system landscape
- Support data management and integration related activities including validation and testing of the solution
- Mentor and coach Associate Solution Consultants
What we are looking for
- A passion for working in customer facing roles and you have great interpersonal, communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in manufacturing, production planning, demand management industry role and/or business software consulting role.
- BS/MS/PhD in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics or a related field with an excellent academic record.
- Good background in Supply Chain engineering concepts and understanding of statistical forecasting, inventory management, MRP, scheduling, etc.
- Ability to learn a new application Kinaxis RapidResponse .
- Self-direction with ability to excel in a fast paced work environment.
- Work well in a team environment and have the ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization.
- Open to travel 75% on average and 100% occasionally and also can work effectively when working remotely from the client.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.