Solution Consultant, Entry

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 CertifiedTM. Our state-of-the-art office, located in the World Trade Centre in Chennai, offers our growing team space for expansion and collaboration.

Chennai, India

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.

• In this role you will support and enable the consulting team in the different phases of the project including problem
  
  definition, diagnosis, solution generation, design and deployment.
• Participate in deep-dive customer business requirements discovery sessions and in developing required
  
  specifications documentation.
• Support Solution Architects by providing creative solutions to complex business problems while maintaining Kinaxis
  
  best practices
• Provide best possible design solutions post analysis to ensure the customer requirements are achieved.
• Continuously strive to understand Supply Chain industry trends and benchmark customer against the same.
• Continuously learning different concepts within Maestro product configuration.
• Conduct knowledge exchange sessions with the customer end users on the configured and deployed solutions
• Monitor and ensure the value proposition aligned with the customer is achieved at each phase of the project
• Support to configure and build the application, process solution in line with the customer requirements.
• Support Technology Consultants in data management and data integration related activities.
• Support in conducting knowledge sessions for customer end users on the configured solution.
• Participate in documentation of solutions deployed in guidance with Solution Architects.
• Guide and mentor fellow consultants in project teams by sharing information of successful resolutions and risk
  
  mitigations
• Ensure honest and straightforward information is shared with the customer for taking objective decisions related to
  
  the project
• Living Kinaxis India's core values of being empowered and stronger together, which means taking responsibility for
  
  your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the organization.
• There may be opportunities available to travel.

• Candidates with results-oriented mindset, focusing on improving client satisfaction and providing a very high
  
  standard of service, driving towards Kinaxis's success.
• Sound knowledge in Supply Chain concepts and understanding of statistical forecasting, inventory management,
  
  MRP, scheduling, etc.
• Strong intent to learn our first in class product "Maestro"
• Work in a fast-paced project environment and co-ordinate 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, having the drive to think in an innovative way and have passion about new
  
  challenges
• Ability to solve complex problems, think critically and make sound judgement decisions.
• A passion for working in customer facing roles that require high level of 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, Java Script, Python, etc.
• Experience with manufacturing planning solutions such as Kinaxis, SAP, JDA, etc… is an added advantage

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 Ford, Unilever, Yamaha, P&G, Lockheed-Martin, 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

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