KINAXIS SPECIALIST

Job Description

Oversees the strategic sourcing and procurement processes (Global/Regional/ Country). Required to develop the procurement strategies, manage supplier relationships, negotiate contracts and optimize procurement operations, ensuring optimization of the cost, cash, quality and service. Drives added value through strategic sourcing, engineering value, delivery of innovation and risk management. Capable of collaborating with cross-functional teams ensuring compliance with regulations and driving cost savings.

Primary Skills

• Perform detailed discovery sessions with business users to understand and document RapidResponse configuration requirements, including: the customers’ supply chain network, operating model, system landscape, planning processes, as well as objectives and targets for Kinaxis implementation.
• Select standard functionalities in RapidResponse and design data model changes, solution configuration and customizations.
• Lead solution blueprinting and detailed design activities and
• Assign configuration tasks to project members according to their skills, review deliverables and track completion.
• Apply advanced mathematical models to address customer requirements.
• Support data management and data integration activities, including source systems data transformation, data loading into Rapid Response, data cleanup and validation.
• Support services sales opportunities working with the Account Executives and Client Partners.
• Support customer and project team on Quality Control/Quality Assurance practices to the configured solution, including executing unit test scripts and supporting the execution of end-to-end tests and user acceptance tests.
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of solution issues
• Assess project performance and document lessons learned to increase institutional knowledge. Ensure solutions team adheres to Kinaxis methodologies and quality standards.