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Kinaxis Solution Architect - Director

Capgemini

Capgemini

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United Kingdom
Posted on Oct 8, 2024

About Capgemini's Intelligent Supply Chain Operations

Capgemini’s Intelligent Supply Chain Operations are a fast-growing business, focused on delivering latest and best in class digital operations solutions to large corporations for their global Supply Chain and Logistics functions and outcomes. This experience even more acceleration now due to a very recent strategic business ecosystem partnership we have engaged in. You will part of a high performing global team and will be responsible for leading and solutioning go to market activities with a team goal of establishing our offering as a high growth offer from Capgemini.

Role and responsibilities

- Translate business requirements into Kinaxis RapidResponse software specifications, following supply chain industry trends and best practices.

- 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.

- Understand Supply Chain Industry trends and benchmark customers performance against the same.

- 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.

Key skills required for this opportunity

- Clear evidence of implementing any supply chain Advanced Planning Solutions like o9, Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, OMP, E2Open etc at an executive level.
- First-hand experience leading a team through at least 2 full lifecycle implementations of a supply chain planning solution, including business requirement gathering,
solution design & development, testing, go-live/cutover, hyper care, and value realization.

- Experience working with multiple clients, across varied industries at one time.

- Experience operating in an Agile methodology to deliver large scale enterprise solutions.

- Certified as a Kinaxis Solution Architect or has completed all requirements for Kinaxis Solution Architect certification.

- Thorough understanding of supply chain planning concepts, processes (demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, S&OP, etc.), KPIs and best practices in
supply chain planning

- Experience presenting on complex topics in a clear, concise, and effective manner.

- Strong analytical skills, data mining knowledge, and proficiency in handling and processing large volumes of data.

- Ability to identify key insights and critical thinking to prioritize and focus on the highest value opportunities or the biggest risks.

- Ability to communicate mathematical, technical, or software usage concepts to audiences with limited background / knowledge on the subject.

- Ability to drive and work in cross-functional teams, distributed across locations and time zones and across multiple hierarchy levels.

- Experience leading a project team in a project client environment.

What does ‘Get The Future You Want ‘ mean for you?

You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses. And it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. And you’ll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.