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At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.

Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.

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Strategy Analyst

Job location: This position can be located in our office in Ottawa, Canada, where the expectation is to work 3 days a week in the office, or in Toronto, Canada where the position would be remote.

About The Team

As a member of the Office of Strategy reporting to the Senior Program Manager, Performance Measurement, the Strategy Analyst will play a critical role in providing objective internal and external analysis to support strategic decision making and operational execution. This position contributes to and supports the strategic planning process by delivering key insights to enable more informed decisions, address key challenges, and identify new opportunities for growth.

What you will do

• Independently analyze, inspect, and report on key internal business processes to identify improvement opportunities
• Proactively partner with stakeholders across the organization on the analysis and suggest insights from industry trends, market positioning, competitive environment, and business environment.
• Support the development of strategic planning models and frameworks to help weigh the relative value between strategic alternatives and test against company targets and internal capacity.
• Manage and continuously improve management reporting processes, including balanced scorecard reporting
• Deliver quantitative and qualitative analysis to inform strategic decision making by leveraging partnerships across the organization, internal information systems and external research
• Evaluate ongoing business performance against targets to support operations

What we are looking for

• Exceptional analytical capability with experience in supporting strategic planning and decision making, building business cases, and management reporting
• Advanced Excel skills and aptitude for using databases and business information systems
• Intermediate to advanced skills using BI tools such as Power BI
• Proven experience to conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis and translate into concise and informative insights
• Independent research skills, self-motivation, and resourceful problem solving
• Degree in business, finance, supply chain management or equivalent
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with confidence and credibility at all levels of the organization
• Supply chain expertise and experience in a SaaS business model is an asset
• Strong business acumen and understanding of business strategy
• Experience with strategic planning models and framework
• 3-4 years of relevant work experience, with experience in corporate strategy, analysis and research preferred

What we have to offer

• Great People - We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously! It’s in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others’ differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen.
• Challenging Work - We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating—our work is never “done. That’s because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they’re passionate about.
• Global Impact - As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large.

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/ .

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