Kinaxis Maestro Functional Consultant-Remote With Limited Travel

TEKsystems 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 estimates and designs, validating deliverables, monitoring adherence to standards and service expectations, and retaining sufficient internal knowledge to prevent overdependence on external resources.

Support business readiness, super-user enablement, release communications, and adoption activities by providing accurate system and process context to the Product Lead, project teams, change resources, and Planning leaders.

Scope:

Provides functional technology ownership for North America planning capabilities used in the United States and

Canada.

Primary process scope includes both Demand Planning and Supply Planning, with working knowledge of related inventory, production, capacity, deployment, scenario, and Sales and Operations Planning processes.

Primary technology scope is Kinaxis Maestro, including functional configuration, solution governance, integrations and data dependencies, enhancements, releases, and production support.

Works across Run, Change, and Transform activities, from production support and continuous improvement through major planning initiatives and capability roadmap execution.

Provides internal oversight of external implementation partners, software vendors, and managed-service providers supporting Kinaxis and connected planning processes.

Position Requirements:

(Minimum qualifications required to successfully perform the job or be considered)

Education / Certifications:

Bachelors 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.

Skills and Experience:

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; experience must extend beyond technical system administration.

Functional implementation, enhancement, or production-support experience with Kinaxis RapidResponse or Kinaxis Maestro required.

Strong understanding of statistical forecasting, forecast review, forecast accuracy and bias, demand consensus, supply and production planning, capacity and material constraints, inventory planning, scenario analysis, exceptionbased planning, and planning master data.

Experience translating business processes and requirements into functional solution designs, configuration decisions, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and sustainable support practices.

Experience working with enterprise resource planning systems, master data, integrations, enterprise data platforms, reporting, and cross-functional processes that support advanced planning.

Experience across the systems development lifecycle, testing, release management, incident and problem management, and change control for enterprise applications.

Experience governing systems integrators, managed-service providers, or software vendors and reviewing partner estimates, designs, configurations, documentation, and delivered outcomes.

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, and communication skills with the ability to engage planning leaders, planners, Information Technology teams, and external partners.

Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, make sound functional recommendations, balance business outcomes with platform integrity, and drive issues to resolution.

Experience in a global manufacturing, agriculture, consumer products, or food and beverage environment preferred.

Skills

Supply chain, Kinaxis Maestro, Demand Planning, ERP, Forecasting

Top Skills Details

Supply chain,Kinaxis Maestro,Demand Planning,ERP

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in supply chain planning, enterprise planning technology, Information

Technology functional consulting, or a closely related role

Experience Level

Expert Level

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

Medical, dental & vision

Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital

401(k) Retirement Plan 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)

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Portland, OR.

The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $65.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan 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)

This is a fully remote position.

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 1, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

Were a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. Were a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. Were strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. Were building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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