IN-Director_ Kinaxis_ Supply Chain _Advisory_ Bangalore

Job Description & Summary: A career in our Supply Chain Management practice, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients optimize all elements of their supply chain to move beyond the role of a cost-effective business enabler and become a source of competitive advantage. We focus on product innovation and development, supply chain planning and execution, procurement and sourcing, manufacturing operations, logistics and warehousing, digital technologies to drive both topline growth and profitability. 

You’ll be a part of a team that helps organisation’s in transforming their supply chains into a strategic asset. You’ll work with our clients to develop a supply chain strategy, optimise their supply chain footprint and logistics, manage transportation and distribution, develop integrated business planning solutions, and leverage digital to make it future ready. 

Job Position Title: 

Director_ Kinaxis_ Supply Chain _Advisory_ Chennai 

Responsibilities: 

• Led a team of (Solution Architects, Integration Consultants, and Solution Consultants) against the delivery of RapidResponse solution for clients’ most pressing business needs. 

• Manage client relationships and expectations within original scope of the delivery, working to mitigate multiple agendas and tight timelines. 

• Take ownership of balancing the overall satisfaction of the client, while effectively representing both the client and our best interests. 

• Ability to drive and govern planning softward implementation methodology using standard framework - Design, Build, Test & Deploy. 

• Key responsibilities include understanding business requirements and translate into related product specifications/user stories definition to assist and guide Solution Architects/Consultants on application configuration aspects 

• Toggle between delivery on single focus client projects and large-scale multi-year rollouts, with team sizes up to 10 resources and multi-crore budgets. 

• Drive towards achievement of team utilization, revenue, and management targets. 

• Work with the Management consulting colleagues, Client Partners and Kinaxis and related partners to develop and support client services solution roadmap. Administer projects across the engagement lifecycle. 

• Be a trusted advisor to customers as a part of their business transformation journey by assisting them on solution adoption through center of excellence (COE) setup and change management. 

Mandatory skill sets: 

• Minimum 8-12years Supply Chain industry experience, managing large scale implementations in software consulting services. 

• Practice Agile Principles, Scrum Master Certification 

• In depth Technical Project Management expertise, with at least 2 years  demonstrated experience of implementing planning solutions. 

• Previous history delivering on multi-phase projects, rolled out over a period of 2+ years for Enterprise clients. 

• Able to travel 50-75% of the time mostly in India 

• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels within the organization, including C-level Executives. 

• Willingness to provide both a big picture view of client engagement as well as take a “roll up your sleeves” attitude towards project delivery. 

• Experience with supply chain integrated business planning solutions such as Kinaxis, Blur Yonder, O9 etc. 

• Delivering on projects and programs with a global focus for external clients. 

Preferred skill sets: 

• Proven record of execution to time and budget. 

• College/University degree - Business, Supply Chain, computer science, process engineering preferred. 

• Assess project performance and document lessons learned to increase institutional knowledge. Ensure solutions team adheres to Kinaxis methodologies and quality standards 

• Previous experience working in a Management Consulting/ Technology Product implementation environment. 

Years of experience : 

12-18Years 

Education qualification: 

B.Tech/B.E/M.Tech/M.E/MBA/MCA