Looking for a Principal Solution Architect for one of the leading Autombile OEM .

Key Responsibilities
• Own the end-to-end Kinaxis platform strategy, architecture, governance, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with organisation's supply chain transformation objectives and business priorities.
• Serve as the enterprise solution authority for Kinaxis across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning , S&OE; , Supplier Collaboration and Order Fulfilment, ensuring scalable, sustainable, and future-ready solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement and value realization by identifying process optimization opportunities, enhancing planning effectiveness, and improving forecast accuracy, inventory performance, service levels, and planner productivity.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Sales, Logistics, and IT leadership to translate evolving business requirements into strategic Kinaxis capabilities and transformation initiatives.
• Lead the Supply Chain Planning Digital Programs by building internal capabilities, establishing best practices and mentoring teams.
• Establish and enforce architecture standards, design principles, release governance, and quality controls to ensure secure, compliant, and high-performing Kinaxis solutions.
• Govern platform health, adoption, performance, and business outcomes, proactively resolving systemic issues and ensuring operational stability of the planning ecosystem.




• Drive data and integration strategy by ensuring robust master data governance, planning data quality, and seamless interoperability between Kinaxis and related enterprise systems.
• Provide executive-level guidance on supply chain planning transformation, technology investments, solution trade-offs, risks, and business impact to support informed decision
- making.
• Define and track platform success metrics and business KPIs, ensuring measurable returns from enhancement initiatives, digital transformation programs, and ongoing platform investments. Mandatory Qualifications Bachelor s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline. MBA or Master s degree preferred. Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills. Ability to influence senior leadership and drive strategic decision-making. Experience 15+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning solutions and transformation programs. 8+ years of hands-on Kinaxis RapidResponse experience. Experience leading Supply Chain Planning CoEs, platform ownership, or enterprise architecture teams. Experience supporting large-scale Kinaxis environments post implementation. Proven experience in solution architecture, governance, roadmap management, and enterprise planning transformations.

Location:
Pune / Bangalore

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