Kearney Activate Kinaxis Business Architect

Kearney Activate Kinaxis Business Architect Job Description Kearney Activate Kinaxis Business Architect Role Overview

As a Kinaxis Business Architect at Kearney, you will bridge business strategy, supply chain transformation, and technology execution. You will help clients design, optimize, and enable end-to-end planning capabilities on advanced planning platforms such as Kinaxis Maestro.

You will lead blueprinting efforts that translate business requirements into scalable solution designs, ensuring planning processes, data needs, and decision flows are clearly defined and aligned with business goals. You will also assess whether clients are realizing expected value from their supply chain planning solutions and identify opportunities to improve adoption, performance, and business outcomes.

This is primarily a delivery-focused role, with occasional support for business development activities as engagements and client opportunities require.

Lead blueprinting activities that translate business requirements into scalable solution designs, including process flows, planning logic, data requirements, roles, and decision-support needs.

Facilitate workshops and design sessions with stakeholders to define current-state challenges, future-state processes, and functional requirements.

Design business processes and solution architecture across supply chain planning areas, including demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, sales and operations planning, capacity planning, and order fulfillment.

Translate business needs into functional solution designs, configuration requirements, and implementation roadmaps within the target planning platform.

Act as the primary liaison between business users and technical and configuration teams to ensure solutions align with operational goals.

Define process standards, governance models, business rules, and data requirements that support scalable platform adoption.

Support end-to-end transformation initiatives by aligning platform capabilities with planning maturity goals and broader digital supply chain strategy.

Assess existing supply chain planning processes and solutions to determine whether clients are achieving intended business value, process effectiveness, user adoption, and operational impact.

Evaluate solution effectiveness using business outcomes, process performance, user experience, and planning maturity indicators; recommend improvements where gaps exist.

Identify opportunities to improve planning performance, data quality, user adoption, and decision-making through process and system enhancements.

Guide testing strategy, user acceptance testing, training, and change management activities to support successful deployment and adoption.

Monitor solution effectiveness after implementation and recommend continuous improvement initiatives.

Provide subject matter expertise to business development efforts as needed, including input to proposals and client presentations and articulation of the business value of technology-enabled planning transformation.

Contribute to reusable delivery assets, methodologies, and points of view that strengthen Kearney’s planning capability.

After nearly 100 years, we know this business is fundamentally about making connections—between facts, figures, insights, strategies, tools, technologies, and above all, people. That’s why we look for collaborative, insightful, and inquisitive problem-solvers who don’t accept the first thing in front of them and who are always unapologetically themselves.

We want to hear from you if you are:

Academically accomplished, with a bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering, information systems, operations, or a related field.

Experienced in supply chain…