Application Consultant

About Kinaxis:

About Kinaxis

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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.

About the team:

Location

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Chennai, India

About the team

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The Application Consultant team is a consulting team within Kinaxis’s Professional Services, Innovation and Data Science Services organization. The incumbent will work closely with other members within our multidisciplinary team and cross-functionally, to deliver end-to-end customer projects related to innovative applications, such as Detail Production Scheduling.

About the role:

What you will do

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• Support the end-to-end deployment of detailed production scheduling tool, including leading a team of consultants through business requirements discovery sessions, data configuration and solution validation
  
• Gather and understand the customer�s manufacturing processes and constraints as they relate to detailed production scheduling through a series of customer-facing discussions.
  
• Translate the customer�s processes and constraints into technical requirements that support their business objectives, including the key metrics to prioritize a production schedule, defining primary and secondary constraints, aligning processes across Supply Planning and Detailed Scheduling, and addressing exception and disruption requirements.
  
• Configure innovative software solutions, while incorporating new capabilities to address complex business problems using best practices identified for specific industries.
  
• Identify product gaps and collaborate with Product Team to assist in prioritizing the development of capabilities to fill any gaps.
  
• Support the development of solution deployment processes and training material to enable other consultants and partners to deploy the solution efficiently and effectively.
  
• Assist within the innovation team to align the product capabilities with industry specific requirements to deploy detailed production scheduling more efficiently.
  
• Guide and cross train other colleagues to help scale innovations for other professional services teams.
  

Technologies we use

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• Prior experience in Kinaxis Maestro (RapidResponse)
  
• Proficiency and experience in JavaScript
  
• Inâ€depth knowledge of ERP or MRP systems
  
• Experience in using Supply Chain Management software
  
• Strong problem-solving skills with passion to take initiatives to investigate new problems
  

What we are looking for

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• MS Degree in one of the following fields: Operations Management, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
  
• 3+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning or Management
  
• 2+ years of experience configuring a detailed production scheduling software
  
• In-depth knowledge of scheduling requirements across the manufacturing industry including relationship of production planning and detailed scheduling processes, key performance indicators(KPIs) that assess quality of schedule, impact of different scheduling operations constraints such as changeovers, labor, downtime, routings, dispatch/optimization rules and how these constraints can be represented using structured data.
  
• 3+ years of experience working with database, data modeling and data analysis
  
• 2+ years in a customer-facing role with exceptional interpersonal skills
  
• Strong communication and presentation skills with ability to articulate complex technical subjects
  
• Ability to gather client requirements and translate to functional and technical solution documents
  
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and perform well in a fast-paced environment
  

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Why join Kinaxis?:

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
  

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.