Supply Chain Planning Architect

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Why Ciena: 

• We are big proponents of life-work integration and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work. 
• We believe an inclusive, diverse and barrier-free work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.  
• We recognize the importance of well-being and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and also offer a variety of paid family leave programs. 
• We are committed to employee development, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities. 
• We know that financial security is important.  We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU’s (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program. 
• We realize time away to recharge is non-negotiable.  We offer unlimited paid time off! 
• Great work deserves recognition. We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance. 

How You Will Contribute: 

Reporting to Manager, Business Applications as the Supply Chain Planning Architect, you’ll support the comprehensive high-level architecture, functionality, and architecture compliance of solution options for the applications portfolio supporting business processes for supply/demand/inventory planning within Supply chain. Using your understanding of both technical and functional design best practices, you’ll develop capabilities at an initiative level in collaboration with other architects, global and regional teams, and subject matter experts from business units.  

• You will develop strategies and operations for discovering, articulating, and demonstrating solutions to deliver on specific service requirements and desired business outcomes, identifying and leading initiatives and programs to scale the organization and its operations for future growth. 
• You will provide governance, strategic consultation and recommendations for business process design, business intelligence design, software development architecture, application frameworks or interfaces during the design and ongoing care of solutions. 
• You’ll develop processes and metrics and Key Performance Indicators to improve effectiveness and efficiency of technical evaluations, workshops, demos, and proof-of-concept engagements. 
• You’ll actively partner with business teams to align on overall strategy and priorities and provide support for specific POCs (proof of concept), initiatives and programs. 
• You will build and foster relationships with business and IT leadership to align with and deliver plans, strategies, and annual goals and mentor and develop an exceptional team of Solution Architect & functional domain Architects 
• Collaborate with Service & Delivery leads and Project Management teams to improve engagement models and ensure the appropriate coverage of service area and other service areas to ensure efficient and ongoing enablement and development of the team. 

What Does Ciena Expect of You? 

• Initiative – you’re a self-starter who works with limited direction and is committed to delivering against aggressive deadlines. 
• A customer first mentality – what’s important to the customer is also important to you. 
• Agility – you are readily able to manage competing and ever-changing priorities and maintain a balanced and methodical approach to problem solving. 
• Communication expertise – you possess the ability to tailor your message and ideas, both technical and non-technical, to all types and levels of audiences to ensure understanding and consensus. 
• The flexibility to work independently and as part of a broader team – you thrive in a team environment, are comfortable working independently, and know how to get things done in a cross-functional, virtual environment. 
• Relationship builder – with a proven ability to influence, you’re able to quickly develop trusted connections and get work done through others. 
• A commitment to innovation – you enjoy maintaining knowledge of industry trends and utilizing this knowledge to provide education on opportunities to build better target architectures that support and drive business decisions. 

The Must Haves: 

• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in engineering or related Supply chain disciplines coupled with extensive experience in implementing supply chain solutions in hi-tech industry.
• Knowledge of forecast tuning, inventory optimization, constraint planning, supplier collaboration and global order promising. 
• 10+ years of leading Kinaxis RapidResponse/Maestro implementations
• Deep understanding of RR data integration using TALEND or similar ETL tools
• Manage integrations between source systems and Kinaxis RapidResponse
• Kinaxis Author and Integration certification preferred
• Experience of collaborating with multiple cross-cultural teams spread across geographies to gather requirements, make design decisions, and support testing and delivery of initiatives. 
• Proven ability in the preparation and delivery of presentations for user, management, and executive - level audiences 
• Demonstrated experience in managing teams, including hiring, coaching, and fostering a high-performance culture

Assets: 

• Modeling hi-tech businesses for supply planning, with a strong understanding of forecast to plan/plan to schedule /deliver to schedule systems/process. 
• Knowledge of Supply Strategies based on segmentation/profiles to drive improvement. 
• APICS CPIM or CSCP certification(s)  

The salary range for this position, in CDN, is $95,500 - $152,500

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