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.
Learning Consultant, APAC
Job Location: This is a remote position. You can work from home and be located anywhere in Japan.
As a Learning Consultant within Continuous Learning Services, your focus is on delivering education services to Kinaxis customers, internal employees and partners on Kinaxis cloud-based Supply chain planning solution - RapidResponse®. Your experience and background in Supply Chain Management will permit you to fully embrace the power of RapidResponse® concurrent planning capabilities. You will deliver Live & Remote sessions (leveraging a Virtual Class room), and occasionally onsite trainings are requested. You will address different audiences, spanning across Business Process owners (functional scope) and Technical implementers (configuration and integration scope), as well as Super user and End-Users.In addition, you may provide learning expert advice and services like creating solution walkthrough demonstrations, applied learning exercises, or day-in-the-life-of-a-planner training material required for specific learning needs on the designed & configured solution.
What You’ll Do
- Deliver Virtual classroom education to Kinaxis customers, partners and employees on the RapidResponse®
- Develop new courseware to support customer or partner specific training needs.
- Advice customers and partners on training environment setup and configuration, and design of learning paths, aligned on Certification targets and/or End-user adoption.
- Continuously upskill on Kinaxis applications and the supply chain management best practices
- Contribute to innovations and new learning methods, whether designed as self-paced or Instructor-led.
- Collecting and processing training feedback, assessing training program effectiveness and ensure continuous improvements.
Things You Should Have
- A post-secondary degree (Engineering or Business) with 5 years of relevant experience in Supply Chain Management.
- Experience in Supply planning (MPS, Manufacturing & Distribution, Production scheduling)
- Knowledge of analytics, dashboards and scorecards
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Team-player collaborating effectively with internal and external customers in a fast-pace Project Management environment
- Customer-centric mindset with problem-solving capabilities
- Fluency in English is required, other languages a bonus
Things That Would Definitely Help
- APICS Certification
- Project Management Certification
- Detailed knowledge of functional supply chain solutions such as ERP/MRP, Sales and Operations Planning, Demand Planning, Aggregated Supply Planning, Order Fulfilment, Capacity Planning, Inventory Management, and managing planning activities with distributors and contract manufacturers.
- Knowledge of Java script and modern web-oriented scripting languages
- Experience working with relational databases
What we have to offer
- 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.
- 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.
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