Kinaxis Maestro Functional Consultant – Limited Travel

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Kinaxis Maestro Functional Consultant leading demand and supply planning technology for TEKsystems clients. Governing solution design, implementation, integrations, and production support remotely.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the Information Technology functional subject matter expert for North America Demand Planning and Supply Planning processes
  • Develop and maintain end-to-end understanding of planning decisions, business rules, planning horizons, master data, KPIs, data ownership, decision rights, handoffs, and standard work
  • Translate business process needs into functional requirements, solution options, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios
  • Serve as the internal functional technology expert for Kinaxis Maestro, including planning models, workbooks, dashboards, task flows, scorecards, control tables, alerts, scenarios, business rules, master data dependencies, integrations, reporting, and user experience
  • Lead or contribute to functional design activities and review and approve Kinaxis solution designs and configurations
  • Maintain knowledge of Kinaxis product capabilities and releases and recommend adoption of valuable capabilities
  • Partner with architects, data and integration teams, security, delivery teams, and application teams on cross-system impacts and enterprise standards
  • Provide functional leadership through discovery, design, configuration, testing, deployment, stabilization, and continuous improvement
  • Develop or review functional documentation, process flows, solution decisions, configuration documentation, test evidence, release documentation, support procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials
  • Provide functional leadership for complex production incidents and recurring problems and validate root-cause corrective actions
  • Govern managed-service providers and implementation partners by reviewing estimates, designs, deliverables, and adherence to standards
  • Support business readiness, super-user enablement, release communications, and adoption activities
  • Provide internal oversight of external implementation partners, software vendors, and managed-service providers supporting Kinaxis and connected planning processes

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience, required
  • Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in supply chain planning, enterprise planning technology, Information Technology functional consulting, or a closely related role
  • Demonstrated process expertise in both Demand Planning and Supply Planning; experience beyond technical system administration
  • Functional implementation, enhancement, or production-support experience with Kinaxis RapidResponse or Kinaxis Maestro required
  • Strong understanding of statistical forecasting, forecast review, forecast accuracy and bias, demand consensus, supply and production planning, capacity and material constraints, inventory planning, scenario analysis, exception-based planning, and planning master data
  • Experience translating business processes and requirements into functional solution designs, configuration decisions, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and sustainable support practices
  • Experience working with enterprise resource planning systems, master data, integrations, enterprise data platforms, reporting, and cross-functional processes that support advanced planning
  • Experience across the systems development lifecycle, testing, release management, incident and problem management, and change control for enterprise applications
  • Experience governing systems integrators, managed-service providers, or software vendors and reviewing partner estimates, designs, configurations, documentation, and delivered outcomes
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, and communication skills
  • Ability to engage planning leaders, planners, Information Technology teams, and external partners
  • Ability to influence without authority, make sound functional recommendations, balance business outcomes with platform integrity, and drive issues to resolution
  • APICS / ASCM certification, Kinaxis certification, or other recognized supply chain planning or platform certification preferred
  • Experience in a global manufacturing, agriculture, consumer products, or food and beverage environment preferred

Benefits:

  • Medical, dental & vision
  • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital coverage
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions
  • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
  • Short and long-term disability
  • Health Spending Account (HSA)
  • Transportation benefits
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)