[Hiring] Kinaxis Maestro Functional Consultant @TEKsystems

Role Description

TEKsystems is currently seeking a Kinaxis Maestro Functional Consultant for a Remote contract to hire opening. Limited Travel may be required.

The Functional Consultant, North America Supply Chain Planning, serves as the internal process and technology expert for Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and the Kinaxis Maestro platform. The role protects platform integrity while enabling business outcomes by translating planning requirements into practical, sustainable solution designs.

• Serve as the Information Technology functional subject matter expert for North America Demand Planning and Supply Planning processes.
• Develop and maintain end-to-end understanding of planning decisions, business rules, planning horizons, master data, key performance indicators, and standard work.
• Translate business process needs into clear functional requirements, solution options, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios.
• Serve as the internal functional technology expert for Kinaxis Maestro.
• Lead or materially contribute to functional design activities and review proposed Kinaxis solution designs.
• Maintain current knowledge of Kinaxis product capabilities and releases.
• Partner with enterprise and solution architects, data and integration teams, and other application teams.
• Provide hands-on functional leadership through discovery, design, configuration, testing, deployment, stabilization, and continuous improvement.
• Develop or review functional documentation, process flows, solution decisions, and support procedures.
• Provide functional leadership for complex production incidents and recurring problems.
• Govern work performed by managed-service providers and implementation partners.
• Support business readiness, super-user enablement, release communications, and adoption activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience required.
• APICS / ASCM certification, Kinaxis certification, or other recognized supply chain planning or platform certification preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in supply chain planning, enterprise planning technology, Information Technology functional consulting, or a closely related role.
• Demonstrated process expertise in both Demand Planning and Supply Planning.
• Functional implementation, enhancement, or production-support experience with Kinaxis RapidResponse or Kinaxis Maestro required.
• Strong understanding of statistical forecasting, demand consensus, supply and production planning, and planning master data.
• Experience translating business processes and requirements into functional solution designs.
• Experience working with enterprise resource planning systems, master data, integrations, and reporting.
• Experience across the systems development lifecycle, testing, release management, and change control.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Experience in a global manufacturing, agriculture, consumer products, or food and beverage environment preferred.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in supply chain planning, enterprise planning technology, Information Technology functional consulting, or a closely related role.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)