Business Architect - USA

About Kinaxis 

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 the US and around the world as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.  

 

Kinaxis has a well-established team of Sales and Professional Services professionals across the US. Our newest office is based in Irving’s Las Colinas development and will serve as a centralized hub where employees and customers from across the US can come together to work towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains.  

Location

This is a remote position. You can work from home and be located anywhere inthe USA

About the team

The Business Architect (Supply Chain Solutions Implementations) is responsible for the business transformation aspects of each Kinaxis Maestro implementation throughout all the phases of the Customer Excellence journey (Discover, Deliver, Grow).

 

What you will do

• Work with sales during the discovery phase, with implementation team during delivery phase and with account team during grow phase, to articulate the value at each stage with increasing detail leveraging industry templates, and customer blueprints developed for Kinaxis Maestro.
• Focus on solution design and delivery, helps translate the value offer into processes and solution requirements to ensure customers from senior executives to planners buy into the designed solution.
• Lead Customer Blueprint workshops in close collaboration with Solution Architect to understand as-is process and pain points, align future state with industry templates and assess design topics.
• Support Solution Architects with rapid prototyping to define ‘special’ functionalities.
• Help Solution Architects drive customer signoff of Customer Blueprint.
• Help detail out processes documented during Customer Blueprint.
• Lead updates to the Blueprint throughout the release process and any playback sessions.
• Focus on next phase of the journey, future state process and technology direction, and uses existing and proven methodologies.
• Prepare for future implementations leveraging industry templates, customer blueprint methodology, draft user stories and shaping agenda for future solution blueprint.
• Help Client Partners to create statement of works, Customer blueprint schedules, implementation plans and deployment concepts.
• Act as a sounding board and keep track of customer change management plans.
• Develop roadshow materials and support the engagement if in scope.
• Develop collateral and artefacts for Maestro Methodology, Integration Methodology, Rapid Prototyping

What we are looking for

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in manufacturing, demand planning, computer science, information technology or related discipline.
• Strong background in Supply Chain engineering concepts and understanding of statistical forecasting, inventory management, MRP, scheduling, etc.
• Work well in a team environment and have the ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Experience with manufacturing planning solutions such as Kinaxis, SAP, JDA, etc.
• Project management experience.
• University degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics or a related field
• Ability to travel 30-40% or more at times.

 

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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. 

 

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