Job Title
Senior Director, Solution Assurance
About the Role
The Senior Director, Solution Assurance is responsible for overseeing the Solution Assurance team, ensuring solution quality, completeness of the solution blueprint and design. As a trusted advisor to both external customers and internal project teams, you will collaborate with Kinaxis customers and their SI Partners to align with best practices, customer requirements, and implementation methodology. This remote position allows you to work from home and be located anywhere in the USA.
What You Will Do
- Understand customer needs and objectives, help them assess the quality of the solution, offer expert recommendations to ensure customer‑specific requirements are being fulfilled and design gaps are addressed.
- Oversee quality of delivery and provide proactive support for SI Partner‑led projects, ensuring reduced post‑blueprinting escalations.
- Build and maintain strong relationships to ensure client satisfaction and mutual successful project outcomes.
- Optimize resource allocation and utilization across projects, balancing the workload and skillsets of Solution Assurance team members to meet project requirements, deadlines and maximize profitability.
- Communicate project status, updates, and risks to clients in a clear and timely manner and address any client concerns or issues promptly and effectively.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Solution Architects, Technical Architects, Senior Delivery Managers, and Business Architects responsible for ensuring the quality and completeness of customer solutions.
- Continuously assess and refine solution assurance processes, methodologies, and tools to ensure adherence to best practices and processes while addressing the customer requirements.
What We Are Looking For
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, supply chain, business or related post‑secondary education.15+ years of progressive experience in client delivery and implementations with a minimum of 10 years in project management, focusing on large, complex, technical, multi‑million dollar projects.10+ years of leading, mentoring and coaching a team of professionals.Deep understanding of project management methodologies, tools, and best practices.Strong leadership skills with experience managing and leading high‑performing teams to achieve and exceed targets.Excellent negotiation, influence and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with executive‑level clients and internal stakeholders.Excellent communicator with proven ability to clearly convey complex ideas and data in written, presentation, and spoken formats to a variety of audiences.Adept at overseeing the multi‑full project life cycles concurrently, including identifying and defining project scopes and goals.Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced environment and drive results through collaboration and innovation.Role‑Specific Skills and Experience
Strong understanding of Kinaxis’ products and services, with Kinaxis experience in a senior, customer‑facing role.Deep understanding of the supply chain industry, including key challenges, trends, and competitive landscape.Willingness to travel as needed to project execution and client interactions.Benefits and Perks
Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company‑wide day off on the last Friday of every month).Flexible work options.Physical and mental well‑being programs.Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes.Mentorship programs and training and career development.Recognition programs and referral rewards.Hackathons.Accessibility & Inclusion
Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com . This contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.
Recruitment Process
We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description, to identify candidates whose education, experience and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.
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