Senior Solution Consultant, Optimization Specialist, Operation Research – Supply Chain SaaS Solutions

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔗 Supply Chain

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Kinaxis

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $33M Venture Round on 2000-05

Consulting • Healthcare • Manufacturing

Kinaxis is a leading provider of supply chain orchestration solutions, specializing in AI-infused supply chain planning and management. Their flagship platform, Maestro, enables organizations to master complexity and optimize decision-making processes across the entire supply chain. By integrating advanced analytics with real-time data visibility, Kinaxis helps businesses improve operational efficiency, predict demand, and respond proactively to disruptions.

📋 Description

• Configure and implement the Kinaxis Maestro product based on customer business requirements • Ensure solution configurations are high quality, aligned with user stories, and delivered according to project timelines • Translate business requirements into Kinaxis Maestro product specifications • Translate complex supply chain problems into analytical and mathematical models, including optimization, heuristics, and constraint-based logic • Embed analytical models into Maestro solutions • Work in small POD teams with domain experts and stakeholders to understand problems and deliver usable solutions • Develop and enhance inventory management modules balancing service levels, working capital, and system efficiency • Develop Production Planning workflows balancing capacity, lead times, and demand variability • Design and develop algorithmic logic for allocation, prioritization, and capacity balancing using Maestro scripting and embedded algorithms • Support quality control and quality assurance validation and testing • Provide recommendations to improve future workflows and implementations • Collaborate with Product Managers and internal stakeholders to align solutions with system capabilities • Identify objective functions, constraints, and trade-offs and translate them into system logic • Translate business requirements into system configurations, dashboards, and workflows • Guide and train end users during early innovator programs • Provide continued customer support during early innovator programs • Conduct data-driven analysis to identify improvements and recommend them to the project team • Identify opportunities to standardize and enhance Maestro resources using reusable Operations Research-based solution patterns

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field • Strong foundation in Operations Research / optimization techniques (Linear Programming, heuristics, constraint-based modeling) is highly preferred • Ability to translate mathematical/analytical outputs into actionable business insights for stakeholders • Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills for customer-facing roles • Knowledge of Agile methodologies for system implementation • Ability to interpret business requirements and convert them into entity relationship diagram logic • Understanding of the software deployment life cycle, including business requirements definition, functional specifications, test plans, testing, user training, and deployment • Self-starter who shows initiative and can excel in a fast-paced work environment • Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills • Ability to synthesize complex information and determine the best course of action • Ability to work effectively in a team environment with people at all organizational levels • Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English, verbally and in writing • Strong working experience within Supply Chain Management platforms • Experience with Production Planning and inventory management concepts, ideally in a software or technology-driven environment • Experience in SaaS Supply Chain platform projects • Knowledge of software extensions and embedded algorithms is an advantage • Kinaxis Solution Consultant Level certification is an advantage • Experience with data analysis tools including Python and SQL • Experience with optimization models, analytical problem solving, or algorithm development in a supply chain context is a strong advantage • Exposure to simulation, scenario analysis, or decision-support modeling frameworks is preferred • Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments • Solution Consultant Level certification/s from Kinaxis is an advantage

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide days off) • Flexible work options • Physical and mental well-being programs • Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes • Mentorship programs, training, and career development • Recognition programs and referral rewards • Hackathons • Accommodations upon request throughout the recruitment process