Kinaxis Solution Architect

About Thoucentric:

∙   Thoucentric is a niche management consulting firm focused on helping organizations overcome business challenges, maximize growth & overall performance through effective problem solving, efficient people, process, and technology solutioning, end to end execution and management.


∙   We help clients with Business Consulting, Program & Project Management, Digital Transformation, Product Management, Process & Technology Solutioning and Execution including Analytics & Emerging Tech areas cutting across functional areas such as Supply Chain, Finance & HR, Sales & Distribution.


∙   We are a group of seasoned professionals having diverse industry, solution and product experience thereby making us effective business liaisons. We are 300+ consultants strong coming with strong diverse background fueling our growth story in India and across four other global locations viz. US, UK, Singapore, and Australia.

Job Family: SCM Consulting

Designation: Solution Architect

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 7 to 20 years of relevant experience

Role Summary: -

The role requires individuals to:

• Build and execute strategies to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction on ongoing supply chain technology projects.
  
• Help develop account strategy and plan, that best leverages consulting team strengths.
  
• Leading a team working on multiple, geographically dispersed projects, and ensure all projects are delivered on time and exceed customer expectations.
  
• Successfully deliver Supply Chain Planning Consulting engagements across various industries, sectors and geographies specifically in various areas of Supply Chain Planning (Demand & Supply Planning, S&OP, Distribution Planning, MRP, Inventory Planning, Replenishment Planning and Network Optimization)
  
• Bring structure to unstructured environments. Deal with ambiguity and lead the teams to success in fast paced environment
  
• Assist clients in the selection, implementation, and adoption of supply chain solutions.
  
• Provide functional and business process expertise on a project which generally consists of consultants, subcontractors, remote global resources, and client employees.
  
• Manage cross-functional programs/projects involving multiple client stakeholders and vendors.
  
• Guide the clients on industry best practices / process benchmarks.
  
• Provide leadership and guidance to consultants in managing their deliverables and lead the teams to achieve highest standards, project discipline and accountability.
  
• Help in building Supply Chain practice at Thoucentric and help grow the company by participating in pre-sales activities, building new solutions / offering that can strengthen Thoucentric’s capabilities in Supply Chain space.
  
• Create reusable assets to help accelerate delivery of solutions
  
• Juggle multiple and conflicting priorities in a timely and sensitive way.
  
• Act as solution architects with equal expertise in supply chain planning technology and domain.
  

Educational Qualifications:

• Strong educational background from reputed engineering and management schools
  

Required Skills:

• Understanding of supply chain planning processes including demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, and inventory optimization.
  
• 7 years to 20 years of work experience in Supply Chain Planning domain with technology exposure.
  
• Flexibility to work on any supply chain technology. Appropriate training would be provided if you would need to work on a different technology than what you have experience in.
  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders with emphasis on follow through and reporting
  
• Analytical and Problem-solving skills along with self-motivation to excel
  
• Meticulous planning skills with attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
  
• Ability to drive projects in a matrix management environment that includes influencing, efficiency, collaboration, candor, and openness with a focus on results orientation
  
• Ability to analyze large amount of data; R, Python, SQL knowledge is preferred.
  
• Desirable Skills : 2 implementations using at least one of the best-in-class supply chain software tools (e.g. Kinaxis ) or custom built supply chain planning applications involving advanced algorithms (AI/ML) is highly desirable.
  

Requirements

You Are A Good Fit If This Sounds Like You:

• Ability to cope in a complex and fast-changing business environment and to respond calmly and rationally to changing aspirations in a deadline-driven situation.
  
• Works independently on complex processes and modules that may be used by one or more programs or systems.
  
• Strong planning and organizing skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously.
  
• Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally.
  
• Good influencing and persuasion skills with the ability to enthuse and inspire multidisciplinary teams and build successful relationships at all levels.
  
• Good team player, self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
  

Kindly note that we are working in a Hybrid Mode with base location in Bengaluru, Karnataka, this is not a remote role.