- Position is 100% remote

Required Experience

- 8+ years of overall experience implementing enterprise Supply Chain Planning solutions.

- 5+ years of hands-on Kinaxis RapidResponse implementation experience.

- Experience working directly in configuration and development capacities within Kinaxis.

- Experience supporting global planning organizations and complex supply chains.

- Strong understanding of supply chain planning processes within large multinational manufacturing or C P G organizations.

- Experience as a Kinaxis end user or superuser alone does not qualify as implementation experience.

Proven experience delivering:

- Full lifecycle implementations

- Enhancements

- Global rollouts

- Proof of Concepts (POCs)

Key Responsibilities

Solution Design & Implementation

- Design, configure, develop, and implement Kinaxis RapidResponse solutions aligned with global business requirements.

- Lead business process discovery sessions, workshops, and solution design discussions for supply chain planning initiatives.

- Analyze current-state ( "As-Is ") planning processes and develop future-state ( "To-Be ") solution architectures.

- Configure planning models, calculations, scenarios, alerts, dashboards, and data structures within Kinaxis.

- Support full project lifecycle activities, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, hypercare, and ongoing support.

Create and maintain:

- Solution Design Documents (SDD)

- Functional Design Specifications

- Technical Design Documentation

- Data Mapping Documents

- Testing and Deployment Plans

Kinaxis Development & Configuration

- Develop and configure solutions within Kinaxis RapidResponse.

Build and maintain:

- Workbooks

- Worksheets

- Control Sets

- Alerts

- Measures

- Metrics

- Scenarios

- Dashboards

- Supply Planning Models

- Demand Planning Models

Implement advanced planning logic and business rules supporting:

- Inventory optimization

- Capacity planning

- Supply balancing

- Material planning





- Production planning

- Demand fulfillment

Troubleshoot and optimize existing Kinaxis configurations and performance.

Integration & Data Management

- Develop and troubleshoot inbound and outbound data integrations.

- Work closely with integration teams to ensure data accuracy, timeliness, and completeness.

- Support master data governance and planning data quality initiatives.

Design and support integrations between Kinaxis and enterprise applications including:

- SAP S/4HANA

- SAP ECC

- SAP APO (where applicable)

- SAP BW

- Azure Data Services

- Enterprise Data Warehouses

- Third-party supply chain applications

Business Partnership & Stakeholder Engagement

Collaborate with global business teams across:

- Supply Planning

- Demand Planning

- Procurement

- Manufacturing

- Logistics

- Customer Supply Chain

- Finance

- Provide recommendations based on supply chain planning best practices and industry standards.

- Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders on planning process improvements and technology adoption.

- Facilitate executive and operational workshops to align business processes with system capabilities.

- Translate business requirements into scalable Kinaxis solutions.

Testing & Deployment

Define testing strategies and coordinate:

- System Integration Testing (SIT)

- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

- Regression Testing

- Production Validation

- Support release planning, deployment activities, and post-go-live stabilization.

- Assist business users during testing cycles and issue resolution.

Required Qualifications

Education

- Bachelor's degree in:

- Computer Science





- Information Systems

- Supply Chain Management

- Engineering

- Related discipline

- Master's Degree, MBA, or Supply Chain specialization preferred.

Required Experience

- 8+ years of overall experience implementing enterprise Supply Chain Planning solutions.

- 5+ years of hands-on Kinaxis RapidResponse implementation experience.

Proven experience delivering

- Full lifecycle implementations

- Enhancements

- Global rollouts

- Proof of Concepts (POCs)

- Experience working directly in configuration and development capacities within Kinaxis.

- Experience supporting global planning organizations and complex supply chains.

- Strong understanding of supply chain planning processes within large multinational manufacturing or C P G organizations.

- Experience as a Kinaxis end user or superuser alone does not qualify as implementation experience.

Functional Expertise

Robust experience in one or more of the following areas:

Supply Planning

- Inventory Planning

- Capacity Planning

- Production Planning

- Replenishment Planning

- Constraint-Based Planning

Demand Planning

- Statistical Forecasting

- Consensus Forecasting

- Demand Sensing

- Demand Analytics

Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

- Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP;)

- Scenario Analysis

- Executive Planning

- Supply/Demand Balancing

Manufacturing & Materials Planning

- MRP

- DRP

- Procurement Planning

- Material Availability Planning

Technical Skills

Kinaxis RapidResponse

- Data Modeling

- Configuration

- Authoring

- Workbooks & Worksheets

- Dashboards

- Alerts & Notifications

- Planning Scenarios

- Analytics & Reporting

ERP & Enterprise Systems

- SAP S/4HANA

- SAP ECC

- SAP BW

- SAP APO (preferred)

Data & Integration

- REST APIs

- ETL Processes

- SQL

- Data Mapping

- Master Data Management

Cloud & Analytics (Preferred)

- Microsoft Azure

- Azure Data Factory

- Azure Synapse

- Power BI

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