.EY-Consulting–Kinaxis Rapid Response Planning – Senior Consultant (3-6 years)The opportunityEY GDS is a global major in value-added Digital Supply Chain services for its clients. As part of this rapidly growing business segment, you will play a critical role in developing solutions, implementations, and performance improvement of Kinaxis Rapid Response. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a leading firm whilst being instrumental in the growth of a new service offering.Your Key ResponsibilitiesProvide solutions proficiency to analyse and identifying gaps, to lead the solution design, and implement the Rapid Response application to meet business requirements.Lead implementation, configurations, testing, training, knowledge transfer and documentation activities.Able to conduct workshops to understand end to end business process requirements and propose the best possible solution.Deliver high quality client solutions that meet and exceed client/EY expectations and are delivered on-time and on-budget.Manage client solution delivery, including defining project approach, motivating project teams, monitoring, managing project risks, managing client and EY key stakeholders and successfully delivering client solutions.Identifying new business opportunities, including building strong client relations, understanding client needs and EY solution offerings, communicating client opportunities to EY leadership, and helping develop client opportunities.Skills And Attributes For SuccessGather business requirements/ lead design discussions with customer & business teams.Work on Proposal and RFPs.Analyse business requirements and perform Fit-Gap Analysis.Develop detailed solution design based on business requirements.Strong expertise in detailed configuration and testing of Kinaxis Rapid Response planning tool.Assist customer/business teams during UAT phase.Prepare and review project documentation.To qualify for the role, you must haveFunctional: In-depth knowledge of demand planning and forecasting and exposure to various forecasting techniques and the concepts like promotion planning, consensus demand planning.Technical: Workbook development – Table based, composite, data modification, Alerts – Monitoring, Hierarchies & Filters, Scenario hierarchy setup, Control Table Configuration, Planning Engine Knowledge, Data Model modification including custom fields and custom tables.Knowledge of integrating Kinaxis with host ERP systems through Data Warehouses for both Inbound and Outbound Interfaces, workflows, query development, preparation of detailed functional specifications for enhancements, layouts and reports etc.6-10 years of experience in supply chain consulting or operations role with proven experience in Kinaxis Rapid Response.Prior Implementation experience of end-to-end demand planning projects using the tool Kinaxis Rapid Response
