About the job 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.
Thoucentric is an Ethos that epitomizes the essence of being a good human living a life of purpose being life itself! We are an extension of ourselves together! We breed the basic human values of trust, freedom, nimbleness, compassion, integrity, passion, persistence & conviction.
JOB DESCRIPTION
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 Thoucentrics 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.
Clear decision-making ability with the facility to judge complex situations and assess when to escalate issues