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For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.\n\nWe believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don't settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.\n\nYour Role at Vantive\n\nWe are seeking a Senior Specialist, IT Tech Lead planning to serve as a Technical Lead, responsible for ensuring supply chain planning global application meet business requirements and remain in a steady state throughout it's lifecycle. This role requires hands-on experience with supply chain planning application such as Rapid Response.\n\nAs the Sr Specialist, IT Tech Lead planning you will:\n\nSupport regional US/Canada Demand and supply planning team to develop a business process design that leverages Rapid Response capabilities; Providing high levels of customer service.\nHelp ensure that supply chain data, planning models, integrations, and workflows operate accurately and efficiently in Kinaxis global application. Identify opportunities to improve planning accuracy, system performance, automation, and user experience for better adoption of the tool.\nLead system testing execution and change management in a regulated and non-regulated environment.\nOversee system maintenance, upgrades, defect tracking, and issue resolution in collaboration with IT and business teams.\n\nOpen to applicants across the country, this is a remote position\n\nWhat You'll Be Doing\n\nSystem Ownership & Governance\n\nImplement solutions that align with business needs and regulatory requirements.\nMaintain system documentation, including functional requirements, technical design specifications, validation plans, and change control records.\nEnsure systems remain in a validated state throughout their lifecycle.\n\nTechnical Solution Design\n\nGather, analyze, and document technical requirements, workflows, and process improvements.\nTranslate business and functional requirements into technical specifications.\nCollaborate with IT teams to develop and deploy configurable solutions in Rapid Response.\nEnsure solutions are scalable, compliant, and aligned with Vantive's Digital Transformation strategy.\n\nValidation, Testing & Compliance\n\nDevelop and execute test scripts, UAT scenarios, and validation plans for new implementations and system changes.\nManage risk assessments, audits, and regulatory inspections related to system validation and compliance.\n\nSystem Maintenance, Enhancements & Issue Resolution\n\nOversee system upgrades, patches, and maintenance, recommending enhancements as needed.\nManage issue triage, root cause analysis, and resolution for system defects.\nWork closely with business process owners to ensure applications align with operational needs.\nCoordinate with vendors and internal teams for system support and enhancements.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n\nThe ideal candidate should have a strong technical foundation with hands-on experience in enterprise application support, configuration, and deployment.\n\nKey Technical Competencies Include\n\nKinaxis Configuration: Configure planning workbooks, worksheets, alerts, scenarios, schedule task, scorecards, automation chain and dashboards in Rapid response.\nData Integration: Support the integration of data from ERP systems such as JDE or Oracle into Kinaxis using available integration mechanisms and interfaces.\nData Modelling: Work with supply chain data, hierarchies, measures, calculations, attributes, and planning logic.\nTechnical Development: Build or maintain calculations, filters, queries, data transformations, and automation workflows supported by the Kinaxis environment.\nCloud & Infrastructure: Knowledge of AWS or Azure, including experience with deploying, configuring, and maintaining applications in a cloud environment.\nApplication Deployment & Support: Familiarity with system integrations, web services (APIs), and troubleshooting production issues. Investigate data discrepancies, integration failures, calculation errors, performance issues, and planning exceptions.\n\nQualifications & Experience\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.\n5+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning applications, business systems analysis, or enterprise systems\n2+ years of hands-on experience with Kinaxis Rapid Response/Maestro, including Demand Planning and Supply Planning modules\nStrong knowledge of Kinaxis platform Data modeling concepts (table structures, linkages, configuration)\nAbility to develop and execute test scripts, validation plans, and system documentation\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nCertification in Kinaxis Author Level 1, Administrator Level 1 and Integration Level 1\nExperience with AWS, Azure, or cloud-based environments.\nBasic project management experience (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies).\nStrong problem-solving and analytical skills to address complex system issues.\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills.\nGood Team player\n\nReasonable Accommodation\n\nVantive is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please click on the link here and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information. Form Link\n\nRecruitment Fraud Notice\n\nVantive has discovered incidents of employment scams, where fraudulent parties pose as Vantive employees, recruiters, or other agents, and engage with online job seekers in an attempt to steal personal and/or financial information. 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