Sr. It Manager and Kinaxis Solution Architect

Honeywell Honeywell · Industrial · Charlotte, NC +1

This role is for a Sr. IT Manager and Kinaxis Solution Architect at Honeywell, focusing on the end-to-end lifecycle management of Advanced Planning solutions. It requires expertise in Kinaxis RapidResponse, supply chain planning processes, and integrations with SAP systems. The role involves solution design, delivery, continuous improvement, team leadership, and stakeholder management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the end-to-end design, solutioning, and delivery of Kinaxis RapidResponse implementations, integrations, and enhancements – ensuring scalable, high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives.
  2. Drive transformation of global supply chain planning processes. Continuously evaluate and introduce new planning solution capabilities, innovations and features to enhance planning accuracy, maturity, efficiency, standardization, automation and system performance.
  3. Provide leadership and governance for a team of Kinaxis consultants and developers, including technical guidance, solution oversight, design reviews etc. As a people manager, adhere to organizational people management policies and processes.
  4. Partner with business stakeholders across supply chain, IT, and operations. Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on planning transformation initiatives. Provide thought leadership on best-in-class supply chain planning practices.
  5. Own the full lifecycle of Advanced Planning solutions – including application roadmaps, multi-year strategy, system architecture, solution design, project delivery, and day to day support; act as the IT Service Owner for Kinaxis, ensuring platform stability, performance, scalability, and strong vendor and partner management.

Skills

Required

  • Supply chain planning systems and implementations
  • Kinaxis Rapid Response
  • Kinaxis implementations, architecture and strategy
  • Supply chain planning processes (Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Optimization, S&OP, IBP)
  • SAP ECC/S/4HANA integrations
  • Data modeling
  • System integration architectures (APIs, middleware, ETL)
  • Supply chain master and transactional data

Nice to have

  • Kinaxis certification
  • Large-scale global transformation programs
  • Cloud-based architectures and SaaS deployments
  • Kinaxis integration tools and technologies
  • Agile delivery methodologies
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Communication and stakeholder management
  • Leadership and team mentoring capabilities
  • Ability to bridge business and technical domains
  • Strategic thinking with execution focus
  • High level of ownership and accountability

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience in supply chain planning systems and implementations.
  • Must have hands-on experience with Kinaxis Rapid Response
  • Proven experience in end-to-end Kinaxis implementations, architecture and strategy.