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Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Product Analyst with 7+ of experience specializing in PLM to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Medical Devices Manufacturing and Supply Chain domains. This hybrid role requires a proactive individual who can seamlessly integrate technical expertise with domain knowledge to drive product success.

Responsibilities

1. Assertively drives the progression of work from an idea to detailed requirements ready for development and testing. Includes proactively eliciting requirements from stakeholders and negotiating best-fit solutions with technical team members and stakeholders

2. Navigate/Facilitate challenging conversations to gain consensus on tough trade offs and options

3. Understand user challenges and system opportunities; translate them into detailed user stories, requirements, and bugs. Supporting documentation such as process flows, mockups, and system-specific functional design guidance

4. Evaluate requests for technical feasibility and alignment with existing solution architecture and best practices with support from Solution Architect/Developers

5. Generate fit/gap analysis based on current state of system and business process against proposed requirements or business use cases

6. Lead a squad as the Product Analyst (PA) by setting priorities, defining scope, and communicating the future roadmap/vision to developers, testers, and stakeholders that are globally distributed

7. Educate partners on PLM capabilities and the change process to ensure clarity across multiple teams

8. Drive production system issues result in actionable next steps that resolve and/or mitigate the problem to business operations. Partner with technical and business partners to comprehensively analyze the root-cause and impact and generate a holistic solution

9. In partnership with Product and Platform Product Manager(s) to maintain deep understanding of processes and priorities to align squad delivery with value and needs; reconcile the backlog priority with competing, disparate stakeholders

10. Identify, manage, and address dependencies with other squads and external programs; working closely with squad Technical Product Owner (TPO), peer PAs, and the Product Manager.

Qualifications

+ At least 7+ years of PLM domain experience

+ At least 5 years of experience delivering technical solutions for business problems by driving decisions and alignment between business and technical partners

+ At least 5 years of experience with PLM in the Medical Devices industry

+ At least 5 years of experience with PTC Windchill PDMLink (strong grasp of Change Control process)

+ At least 1 year of experience with PTC Windchill MPMLink, ProjectLink

+ At least 1 year of experience in project management and/or managing a team

+ At least 1 year of experience using JIRA

+ Led a team that was globally distributed and remote

+ Strong understanding and experience in software development lifecycle process (SDLC), and agile methodologies including SAFe

+ At least 1 year of experience operating on a SAFe team

+ At least 3 years of experience authoring user stories and features **_Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future_**

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.