BCG Platinion | Manager, Enterprise Solutions – Advanced Planning Systems – Kinaxis

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BCG Platinion has offices worldwide, spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas. We achieve digital excellence for clients through sustained solutions that address their most complex, time‑sensitive challenges. We guide clients into the future, push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable clients to extend their digital journeys. We deliver business value at a rapid pace, transforming strategies into leading‑edge tech platforms at scale across Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application, and Risk functions.

• Collaborative
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  Interdisciplinary team player who seeks alignment and establishes relationships across stakeholder groups and teams.
• Agile advocate
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  Well‑versed in Agile methodologies, using expertise to tackle challenges and implement change strategically.
• Comfortable with ambiguity
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  Confident working through the unknown and unclear paths forward.
• Technical expert
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  Critical thinker with extensive IT expertise driving novel, complex solutions.
• Change agent
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  Facilitates organization‑wide change, aligns and onboard teams to new processes and toolsets, embraces complex challenges, and guides optimization of IT best practices.
• Influencer
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  Builds strong relationships to gain trust and influence stakeholders.

Planning Platform Solution Design and Deployment

• Developing feasibility studies, assessing platform suitability (e.g., Kinaxis vs. o9) and issuing recommendations.
• Supporting core planning process redesign and alignment with platform capabilities.
• Leading technical demonstrations and proof‑of‑concept sessions for prospective clients.
• Defining functional and non‑functional requirements for planning platforms.
• Leading full lifecycle implementations for Advanced Planning Systems (APS) in supply chain.
• Hands‑on experience designing and deploying UI/UX and Kinaxis configuration for IBP/S&OP, Demand/Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Order Fulfillment, Control Tower.
• Conducting data discovery, mapping, transformation and normalization for APS use cases.
• Developing integrated solution architecture designs for APS, ensuring integration with ERP, HRIS, data platforms, warehouses, and custom analytics (e.g., AI/ML prediction engines).
• Designing and implementing data integration patterns that are secure, performant, and enable fast time‑to‑value deployments.
• Creating implementation roadmaps, scoping and sizing effort for APS programs.
• Ensuring APS alignment with evolving technology landscapes (e.g., S/4
  
  HANA migration dependencies).
• Providing expert guidance on tooling options with clear, actionable insights into advantages and trade‑offs.

• Leading creation of client‑specific strategic materials, surfacing key insights from technical experts.
• Translating technical findings into business impact and opportunities that drive measurable improvements.
• Codifying messaging and data into presentable materials, delivering communications efficiently with accuracy and speed.
• Managing organizational change for new planning solutions by driving stakeholder engagement, adoption strategies, and training programs.
• Restructuring IT processes and teams to optimize support for planning capabilities.
• Aligning platform capabilities to deliver value‑driven outcomes such as improved demand prediction, reduced…