Planning Solution Architect - Kinaxis at Shell · Chennai

, India

Job Family Group: Downstream Supply Chain

Worker Type: Regular

Posting Start Date: May 20, 2026

Business Unit: Downstream and Renewables

Experience Level: Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Shell began operations in India more than 80 years ago. At Shell India, we invest in our people through our industry-leading development programmes, which sees our employees thrive and gain access to experts on a local and global level.

To date, we have invested more than US$ 1 billion already in India’s energy sector alone, in socially and environmentally responsible ways. Shell is the only global major to have a fuel retail license in India. Shell aims to establish a new hub in Bangalore, and scale it up over a five-year period.

Where you fit in

Global Lubricants Supply Chain (GLSC) is advancing toward an ambitious digital and touchless planning vision to enable growth, drive performance, and elevate planner experience across more than 100 countries.

As part of the GLSC E2E Supply Chain Performance organization, this role is central to ensuring Shell fully leverages its planning technologies. Most critically Kinaxis which we are investing in to strengthen decision making, boost efficiency, and deliver competitive advantage.

As the Global Planning Solution Architect, you will be the technical and functional backbone of our planning ecosystem. You will shape how our planners use Kinaxis and related solutions by owning core design, ensuring solution reliability, leading enhancements, driving best‑practice adoption, and helping the organization unlock the full value of digital planning with our standardized global processes. You will play a pivotal role bridging technology, process, analytics, and the planning community.

What’s the role?

• Solution Ownership & Expertise Serve as the primary Kinaxis solution expert, owning system configuration, data flows, planning logic, scenario management, and integrations with SAP and downstream systems. Continuously enhance planning capabilities through optimization of reporting, analytics, dashboards, and planning logic to improve usability and drive adoption. Ensure all planning solutions align with standardized global processes and end‑to‑end (E2E) design principles.
• Digital Planning Enablement Drive touchless and automated planning by identifying and executing opportunities to simplify, standardize, configure, or automate planning processes within Kinaxis and its connected ecosystem. Support all aspects of our planning requirements in Kinaxis. Build digital capability across the planning community by promoting best practices and strengthening user proficiency with planning tools and solutions.
• Change Delivery & Continuous Improvement Lead and contribute to the delivery of high‑value change requests and IT enhancements, balancing speed, system stability, and business impact. Partner closely with global and regional centers of excellence to proactively manage system upgrades, new releases, and roadmap changes. Troubleshoot system and user issues to ensure solution reliability and maintain planner confidence.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement Collaborate with global process owners, process quality specialists, super users, and end users to embed and strengthen planning process execution. Partner with Digital and IT teams to ensure robust integration delivery, data quality improvements, system enhancements, and successful project implementations. Influence stakeholders at all levels to champion standardized planning processes and digital ways of working.

What we need from you?

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• With at least 5 – 10 years’ hands‑on experience with supply chain planning systems, including strong expertise in Kinaxis (configuration, authoring, analytics) and working knowledge of SAP
• Highly driven, hands‑on techno‑functional professional with the ability to quickly onboard, operate independently, and deliver immediate business impact in a fast‑paced, global environment.
• Solid understanding of end‑to‑end demand and supply planning processes and their integration across the supply chain.
• Prior experience in supply chain planning execution or planning excellence roles preferred.
• Exposure to supply planning, inventory optimization and statistical methods or forecasting models considered an advantage.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem‑solving skills, supported by a continuous improvement mindset and the ability to simplify complex topics into actionable insights.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing capabilities, with the confidence to engage effectively across functions and seniority levels.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt to changing business needs, and operate effectively in a matrixed, virtual, global environment.
• Willingness and flexibility to work across regions and time zones, including up to approximately 30% of working time outside regular business hours, while maintaining effective time management and work‑life balance.
• Role based in Chennai, India, supporting a global business with virtual collaboration across four regions.

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What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
• international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Who We Are

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 103,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.

Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.

Our approach

Powering Progress sets our strategy to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, generating value for our shareholders, our customers and wider society. As we move forward on this journey, we will power lives and respect nature while maintaining our core values of honesty, integrity, and respect for people.

Our values

At Shell, we share a set of core values – honesty, integrity and respect for people – which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.

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