Thoucentric - Kinaxis Consultant (5-10 yrs)

About Us :

Thoucentric is the Consulting arm of Xoriant, a prominent digital engineering services company with 5000+ employees. We are headquartered in Bangalore with presence across multiple locations in India, US, UK, Singapore & Australia Globally.

As the Consulting business of Xoriant, We help clients with Business Consulting, Program & Project Management, Digital Transformation, Product Management, Process & Technology Solutioning and Execution including Analytics & Emerging Tech areas cutting across functional areas such as Supply Chain, Finance & HR, Sales & Distribution across US, UK, Singapore and Australia. Our unique consulting framework allows us to focus on execution rather than pure advisory. We are working closely with marquee names in the global consumer & packaged goods (CPG) industry, new age tech and start-up ecosystem. Xoriant (Parent entity) started in 1990 and is a Sunnyvale, CA headquartered digital engineering firm with offices in the USA, Europe, and Asia. Xoriant is backed by ChrysCapital, a leading private equity firm. Our strengths are now combined with Xoriants capabilities in AI & Data, cloud, security and operations services proven for 30 years.

We have been certified as "Great Place to Work" by AIM and have been ranked as "50 Best Firms for Data Scientists to Work For".

We have an experienced consulting team of over 450+ world-class business and technology consultants based across six global locations, supporting clients through their expert insights, entrepreneurial approach and focus on delivery excellence. We have also built point solutions and products through Thoucentric labs using AI/ML in the supply chain space.

Job Description :

About Thoucentric :

- Thoucentric is a niche management consulting firm focused on helping organizations overcome business challenges, maximize growth & overall performance through effective problem solving, efficient people, process, and technology solutioning, end to end execution and management.

- We help clients with Business Consulting, Program & Project Management, Digital Transformation, Product Management, Process & Technology Solutioning and Execution including Analytics & Emerging Tech areas cutting across functional areas such as Supply Chain, Finance & HR, Sales & Distribution.

- We are a group of seasoned professionals having diverse industry, solution and product experience thereby making us effective business liaisons. We are 300+ consultants strong coming with strong diverse background fueling our growth story in India and across four other global locations viz. US, UK, Singapore, and Australia.

Thoucentric is an Ethos that epitomizes the essence of being a good human living a life of purpose being life itself! We are an extension of ourselves together! We breed the basic human values of trust, freedom, nimbleness, compassion, integrity, passion, persistence & conviction.

At Thoucentric, we work on various problem statements.

The most popular ones are -

- Building capabilities that address a market need, basis our ongoing research efforts

- Solving a specific use case for a current or potential client based on challenges on-ground

- Developing new systems that help be a better employer and a better partner to clients

All of these need the best of minds to work on them day-to-day; and we do exactly that!

Your contribution to organization development is as important as outward facing consulting.

We are invested in both, employee growth and client success!

The role requires individuals to :

- Lead the Design of supply chain planning solutions using Kinaxis Rapid Response for Clients across various industries, sectors and geographies specifically in various areas of Supply Chain Planning (Demand & Supply Planning, S&OP, Distribution Planning, MRP, Inventory Planning, Replenishment Planning)

- Provide functional and primarily Kinaxis tool expertise with an ability to Model and design solutions using the tool on a project which generally consists of 360degree stakeholder management viz. consultants, subcontractors, remote global resources, and clients employees Be Actively involved in Gap Analysis and scope finalization meetings to finalize the Solutions Architecture and related deliverables

- Indulge in Rapid Response system architecture design with deep understanding of the data models and DSMs, provide Inputs to Solution and Integration consultant, and guide the clients on technological best practices in the industry

- Support Solution Consultant and Project manager by providing technical guidance throughout the configuration, testing and release of supply chain planning solution

- Prepare detailed Use case for performance evaluation of Kinaxis based solution

-Provide guidance for Cutover and to Hypercare team on the Solutions design and configuration

- Contribute in building Kinaxis / Supply chain practice at Thoucentric and help grow the company by participating in pre-sales activities, building new solutions / offering that can strengthen Thoucentrics capabilities in Supply Chain space.

-Create reusable assets to help accelerate delivery of solutions

Requirements :

Required Skills :

- The consultant should have both DP and SP knowledge

- Should be able to gather requirements from business, question/judge whether to proceed without Kinaxis or it must be solved in Kinaxis

- Profound Technical knowledge but should also have business acumen

- 5-10 yrs of experience

- Someone who can bridge the gap between business and technology