Kinaxis Maestro Functional Consultant-Remote With Limited Travel
TEKsystemsTEKsystems is currently seeking a Kinaxis Maestro Functional Consultant for a Remote contract to hire opeing. Limited Travel may be required. Description Job Purpose 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 and by ensuring that configuration, integrations, data, controls, and support practices align with approved business processes and enterprise standards. The position provides functional leadership across solution design, enhancements, projects, testing, production support, and managed-service delivery for planning capabilities used in the United States and Canada. The role partners with Planning process owners, the IT Product Lead, architects, data and integration teams, delivery teams, Kinaxis, and managed-service providers while remaining distinct from demand ownership, project management, and primary business relationship ownership. Job Responsibilities Planning Process & Domain Expertise Serve as the Information Technology functional subject matter expert for North America Demand Planning and Supply Planning processes, including statistical forecasting, consensus demand, supply and production planning, capacity and material constraints, inventory planning, deployment, scenario planning, exception management, and planning performance measures. Develop and maintain end-to-end understanding of planning decisions, business rules, planning horizons, master data, key performance indicators, data ownership, decision rights, handoffs, and standard work across the North America planning process. Translate business process needs into clear functional requirements, solution options, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios while identifying opportunities to simplify and standardize planning practices. Kinaxis Maestro Functional Ownership Serve as the internal functional technology expert for Kinaxis Maestro, including planning models, workbooks, dashboards, task flows, scorecards, control tables, alerts, scenarios, business rules, master data dependencies, integrations, reporting, and user experience. Lead or materially contribute to functional design activities and review and approve proposed Kinaxis solution designs and configurations to ensure alignment with business processes, platform capabilities, supportability, security, and long-term platform strategy. Maintain current knowledge of Kinaxis product capabilities and releases; evaluate relevant capabilities and recommend adoption when they provide measurable planning or operational value. Solution Governance, Delivery & Continuous Improvement Partner with enterprise and solution architects, data and integration teams, security, delivery teams, and other application teams to evaluate cross-system impacts and ensure planning solutions align with enterprise architecture and technology standards. Provide hands-on functional leadership through discovery, design, configuration, testing, deployment, stabilization, and continuous improvement; challenge unnecessary customization and identify sustainable alternatives using standard platform capabilities. Develop or review functional documentation, process flows, solution decisions, configuration documentation, test evidence, release documentation, support procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials required to sustain the solution. Run Support & Partner Governance Provide functional leadership for complex production incidents and recurring problems, helping distinguish process, data, configuration, integration, security, and user issues; validate proposed fixes and ensure corrective actions address root causes. Govern work performed by managed-service providers and implementation partners by clarifying functional context, reviewing estimate…