Director - Kinaxis Planning

In this role you will act as the Kinaxis Practice Lead, in which you are responsible for further developing and structuring our Kinaxis enabled planning capability. There is already an existing Kinaxis footprint at Bluecrux, and your role is to build on this foundation, bring focus, and help the practice grow in a structured way.

You combine deep supply chain planning expertise with strong hands on Kinaxis experience to define the practice strategy, support commercial growth, and strengthen delivery quality. You support clients and teams in complex planning transformations and guide teams in a pragmatic way. At the same time, you help position our Kinaxis offering clearly within the market and within the broader Bluecrux planning portfolio.

In this role you will:

• Shape the Kinaxis practice strategy, roadmap, and market positioning.

• Define and mature our Kinaxis offering within the broader planning portfolio.

• Support sales proposals, pipeline discussions, and commercial shaping.

• Act as a senior Kinaxis trusted advisor across demand, supply, and inventory planning.

• Act as the main contact point in Bluecrux on and towards Kinaxis

• Steer delivery teams to ensure quality, structure, and credibility.

• Build internal capability through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.

• Stay connected to the Kinaxis ecosystem, partners, and market trends.

• Support long-term practice growth and internal alignment.

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• Senior, hands-on leadership profile with strong expertise in end-to-end supply chain planning

• Proven experience in at least one Kinaxis implementation from design through delivery

• Strong background in system implementations within a consulting environment

• Experience with supporting or leading commercial activities (proposals, pipeline shaping)

• Ability to bring structure and clarity in complex implementation environments

• Collaborative, trusted‑advisor approach with senior stakeholders

• Experience developing people and building internal capability

• Curiosity about the Kinaxis ecosystem and market trends and how these impact the practice

• Proactive mindset and comfortable working in a growing capability

• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus

• You feel connected with and are ready to represent our company values: dig deep, own it, come together, move fast and be kind!

• You show a willingness to travel globally and to work in a hybrid working model.

At Bluecrux, we transform supply chains into smart, efficient value chains through a blend of expert consulting and cutting-edge technology. We collaborate closely with industry leaders like Johnson & Johnson, GSK, Bridgestone, AkzoNobel, Beiersdorf, Oatly, and many more – creating partnerships that drive meaningful impact. With a global presence in Europe, the US and APAC, we're committed to shaping the future of value chains, one success story at a time.

Within the Supply Chain Plan business unit we have built up specific expertise in three main areas: Life sciences/pharma, CPG&CH and Chemicals&Industries. In these industries, we support a range of global leaders in their E2E planning transformation journey such as Bayer, Johnson&Johnson, BASF and Bridgestone.

During these E2E supply chain planning transformations, our experts support our customers in every step of their journey. We partner up to define a vision and review the operating model to create a strong and agile basis for the future.

The plan business unit designs & implements our customers’ business transformation by defining the future organizational operating model, designing new ways of working & solutions advanced planning systems (APS), feeding their data factory, accelerating their setup towards agile S&OP or guiding them through their end-to-end supply chain planning. We do not work for them but rather with them, and we stand by their side the entire time. That is the only way to make changes stick and flourish.