Principal Architect, Business

About Kinaxis  

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.    

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.   

At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers. 

Location

This is a remote position. You can work from home and be located anywhere in Canada or the USA

About the role

The Principal Architect, Business within Kinaxis’ Solution Assurance team plays a vital role in customers’ supply chain transformation journey. Leveraging their supply chain management and process engineering expertise, they’ll collaborate with Solution Architects to design optimized solutions and implement best practices throughout the lifecycle of the deployment that ensure seamless deployments and deliver measurable value.

What you will do

• Understand customers’ current business models, supply chain processes and pain points, and drive alignment to a future state built around Kinaxis’ Maestro solution.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects to review the solution blueprints with focus on business process engineering based on industry’s best practices and relevant Maestro capabilities.
• Within the Centre of Excellence Design, evaluate the maturity of the COE and benchmark against industry best practices to develop and provide guidance on future state for the COE.
• Provide guidance on change management to map out planning stages and readiness considerations for solution deployment and new approaches to future planning.
• Translate the value of Kinaxis processes, solution, and change management methodologies to ensure stakeholder alignment with the designed solution.
• Prepare for future implementations leveraging industry templates, customer blueprint methodology, draft user stories and shaping agenda for future solution blueprint.
• Develop education and presentation materials for use by internal teams, customers and Leadership team.
• Manage multiple engagements simultaneously and effectively, fostering strong collaboration with partners and customers. 

What we are looking for

• College/University degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.
• 7 to 10 years’ experience in manufacturing, demand planning, computer science, informationtechnology or related discipline.
• Broad expertise and knowledge of Supply Chain Management processes, concepts, best practices and functional supply chain solutions.
• Proficiency in analytics, dashboards and scorecards; SQL skills and relational database experience is an asset.
• Strong collaboration skills to work with other internal groups including documentation, curriculum development, project management, and deployment consultants.
• Project management expertise including risk mitigating, resource planning, and mobilizing resources to conduct quality work within deadlines.
• Advanced analytical, design, and systems thinking skills, and a clear understanding of changemanagement.
• Extensive knowledge of tactical and operative planning processes.

Role Specific Skills and experience

• Intermediate knowledge of Maestro solution functionality.
• Excellent communication and ability to effectively facilitate meetings, including brainstorming sessions. Able to present information in an engaging manner to a diverse audience.
• Excellent influencing skills, even without direct authority.
• Effective interpersonal skills and ability to work well across all levels in the organization.
• Ability to build strong relationships and credibility with internal & external stakeholders.
• Open to travel 50% on average and can work effectively when working remotely from client sites.

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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more. 

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more. 

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs and training and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons

Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Please note that this contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description, to identify candidates whose education, experience and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.