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Kinaxis

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1001 - 5000 employees

☁️ SaaS

💰 $33M Venture Round on 2000-05

Logistics • SaaS • Supply Chain Management

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

• Lead core ERM activities, including annual risk refreshes, quarterly monitoring, risk assessments, mitigation follow-up, and reporting. • Facilitate risk interviews, workshops, and discussions with stakeholders across the business. • Prepare clear and concise risk updates, heatmaps, summaries, and presentations for executives, leadership teams, and governance committees. • Maintain the enterprise risk register, including risk statements, owners, impacts, mitigation actions, status updates, and supporting documentation. • Partner with risk owners to assess and monitor key strategic, operational, financial, technology, compliance, reputational, and emerging risks. • Provide practical risk advisory support to business stakeholders by identifying risk considerations, challenging assumptions, and advising on mitigation approaches for initiatives, projects, and business decisions. • Coordinate and support the Third-Party Risk Management program, including vendor intake and prioritization, risk assessment coordination, stakeholder follow-up, documentation, and continuous improvement of the operating model. • Support the development and maintenance of risk policies, guidance, governance practices, and risk culture initiatives. • Monitor external trends, regulatory developments, and emerging risks to inform program priorities, reporting, and risk discussions. • Support ad hoc risk-related projects and cross-functional initiatives as required.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Risk Management, or a related field. • 5 to 7 years of experience in enterprise risk, internal audit, advisory, compliance, governance, or a similar role, ideally within a global technology, SaaS, or software company. • Experience leading or coordinating ERM activities, including risk assessments, mitigation tracking, risk registers, and executive-level reporting. • Strong facilitation skills, including experience conducting structured interviews, workshops, or stakeholder discussions. • Excellent writing and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for senior leaders and governance audiences, including preparation of materials for executive, board, audit committee, or similar forums. • Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to challenge and refine risk statements, root causes, interdependencies, and action plans. • Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, build credibility quickly, and provide practical risk advice on business initiatives, projects, and decisions. • Highly organized, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities. • High degree of professionalism, sound judgment, confidentiality, and attention to detail. • Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. • Working knowledge of third-party risk management, including coordination across procurement, legal, privacy, security, and business teams, is considered an asset. • Familiarity with strategic, operational, financial, commercial, technology, compliance, reputational, and emerging risk categories is preferred. • Professional designation such as CPA, CIA, CRMA, or similar is preferred.

🏖️ 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