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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.

We make the world better, and you can too.

Technology Consultant

Job location: This position is to be hired in Canada and will be remote unless you live in the Ottawa area in which the role will be hybrid

About The Team

As a member of our Consulting team, you understand our customers’ most pressing business performance challenges and you are committed to helping our customers solve complex challenges in the distributed value chain that is prevalent in supply chain management today. Working with new and existing customers, you will provide expert guidance in integrating our product offerings to deliver value.

What you will do

• Assist data management and integration related activities including validation and testing of the solutions
• Learn the Rapid Response integration platform.
• Participate in deep-dive customer business requirements discovery sessions and develop integration requirements specifications.
• Support deployment workshops to help customers achieve immediate value from their investment
• Perform integration configuration – mapping, loading, transforming and validating data required to support our customer’s unique system landscape.

Thing You Should Have

• Understanding of the software deployment life cycle; including business requirements definition, review of functional specifications, development of test plans, testing, user training, and deployment.
• Substantial experience and expertise with ETL tools such as Talend, OWB, SSISl SAP Data Services etc.
• Experience with connection functionality to SAP (through BAPI / RFC), databases, files, web, SOAP.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in business software consulting, ideally in supply chain.
• Experience working with relational databases and java script
• Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, time management, and customer relationship skills.
• Database level experience extracting data from enterprise class ERP systems including SAP/APO, Oracle, and JDE.
• Ability to work virtual and plan for up to 70% travel
• A college/university degree in a related field.

Thing that would help

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Experience with manufacturing planning solutions such as Kinaxis, SAP, JDA, etc. – strong preference for Kinaxis experience.
• Technical skills such as SQL, R, Java Script, Python, etc.

What we have to offer

• 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.
• 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.
• 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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