VP, Investor Relations

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. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.   

 

At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers. 

Location

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

About the role

 

The Vice President, Investor Relations (VP, IR) is the senior executive responsible for shaping and leading Kinaxis’ global capital markets strategy, investor engagement model, and disclosure governance as a publicly traded SaaS organization.

 

Working in close partnership with the CFO and CEO, the VP, IR defines and articulates a clear, differentiated, and durable equity narrative that reflects the company’s long-term strategy, competitive positioning, operating discipline, and value creation priorities. The role serves as a trusted advisor to the Executive Team and Board of Directors on shareholder composition, valuation dynamics, market perception, capital allocation messaging, and evolving investor expectations.

 

This leader ensures Kinaxis is positioned with credibility and sophistication across global institutional investors, research analysts, and governance stakeholders. They establish best-in-class investor relations practices, uphold rigorous multi-jurisdictional disclosure standards, and build scalable processes aligned with the company’s growth trajectory and increasing capital markets complexity.

 

The VP, IR operates with enterprise-wide influence, high autonomy, and exceptional judgment in high-visibility environments, bringing a strategic, data-driven perspective to how the company communicates performance, strategy, and long-term ambition to the market.

 

Vacancy Status

This is an existing job vacancy

What you will do

• Partner with the CFO and CEO to develop, articulate, and continuously refine a clear, differentiated, and durable equity story aligned to Kinaxis’ long-term strategy and value creation priorities.
• Translate business strategy and operating performance into investor-relevant drivers and outcomes, including key SaaS metrics and forward-looking value levers.
• Own and evolve the Investor Relations strategy and annual operating plan, including investor targeting, engagement cadence, and conference participation.
• Advise the Executive Team and Board on valuation, market expectations, shareholder composition, peer positioning, and investor sentiment.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with buy-side and sell-side analysts, institutional investors, proxy advisors, and other key market stakeholders.
• Lead investor roadshows, conferences, investor days, and strategic investor meetings; ensure senior leader preparedness and message alignment.
• Oversee investor targeting, shareholder analysis, and perception measurement activities; translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Monitor market trends, macroeconomic conditions, competitor activity, and industry developments; provide regular insights and executive-ready briefings to leadership and the Board.
• Lead end-to-end quarterly earnings preparation and execution, including messaging, scripts, Q&A, investor presentations, press releases, and analyst engagement.
• Establish and maintain rigorous disclosure governance and controls to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant communications across jurisdictions.
• Draft and oversee preparation of investor materials and public documents and maintain an enterprise-wide review and approval process for external-facing IR content.Partner cross-functionally across Finance, Legal, Corporate Communications, Risk & Sustainability, and HR to ensure integrated, consistent messaging.
• Support preparation of the Annual Report, MD&A inputs, earnings materials, AGM materials, and other required disclosures.