Job Title - Product Analyst
Estimated Start Date 5 October 2026
Building Location - Mossville IL
Daily Schedule - First shift
Estimated Duration 12 months
Pay Range: $40-41/hr

Job Description

Position's Contributions to Work Group:
* Serve as liaison among the Product Owner, Business Process Owners, business stakeholders, IT, development and testing teams, and external technology partners.
* Translate business needs into actionable requirements and support the product lifecycle from intake through testing, release, stabilization, and adoption. Core Responsibilities
* Facilitate discovery sessions, workshops, and stakeholder interviews; document functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
* Maintain and refine the product backlog; assess enhancement requests and prepare items for prioritization, sprint planning, release planning, and vendor execution.
* Provide first-level functional support; investigate and document incidents, defects, and data issues; coordinate resolution and stakeholder communication.
* Plan and coordinate UAT, defect triage, retesting, business sign-off, deployment readiness, release validation, and stabilization.
* Maintain decisions, actions, process documentation, user guides, FAQs, training content, release communications, and status reporting.

Expected Deliverables
* Delivery-ready backlog and traceable requirements artifacts.
* UAT plans, evidence, defect logs, sign-offs, and release-readiness assessments.
Support intake and resolution tracking, user documentation, adoption content, status reporting, and continuous-improvement recommendations.
* Improve requirement quality, manage enhancement demand, support users, coordinate testing, and maintain alignment across business, IT, and external technology partners.
* Support BOM/BOD, a strategic enterprise data product serving supply chain, procurement, and downstream digital initiatives. Surrounding Team and Key Work
* Works with the Product Owner, Business Process Owners, business stakeholders, IT, development teams, testing teams, and external technology partners.
* Supports product backlog, change requests, production support, UAT, releases, documentation, adoption, and governance.

Reason/motivation for request: - Addition

* High-visibility opportunity to influence a strategic enterprise data product across supply chain, procurement, and digital initiatives.
* End-to-end exposure across discovery, requirements, backlog management, production support, UAT, release readiness, adoption, and governance.
* Direct collaboration with business, IT, product leadership, testing teams, and external technology partners

Typical Day or Week in the Role

* Facilitate discovery and requirements sessions; develop user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria, and traceability.
* Refine backlog and change requests; assess value, urgency, impact, complexity, dependencies, and readiness.
* Triage user questions, incidents, defects, and data issues; coordinate resolution and communicate status.
* Plan and coordinate UAT, defect retesting, sign-off, release validation, and stabilization.
* Prepare status updates, decision/action logs, documentation, user guides, FAQs, training, and release communications.

Interaction with Team
* Frequent cross-functional interaction with the Product Owner, process owners, business users, IT, development/testing teams, and external partners.

Team Structure
* Works under the direction of the BOM/BOD Product Owner or designated program leader in a cross-functional delivery model.

Work Environment - Peoria, IL; onsite five days per week; full-time, 40 hours per week.

- Years of experience: 8-10 years as a Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Functional Analyst, or similar role supporting enterprise applications or digital products.
- Degree requirement: BS Degree;
- Do you accept internships as job experience: Yes
- Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Functional Analyst.

Top 3 Skills Requirements elicitation and documentation, including user stories, process mapping, acceptance criteria, and traceability.
* Product backlog, enhancement intake, and change-request management in an Agile environment.
* UAT, defect/incident triage, release validation, and production stabilization.

Additional Technical Skills (Required) Experience coordinating across business, technical, testing, and vendor teams.
* Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- (Desired) * PLM, engineering BOM, manufacturing BOM, product data, sourcing data, or supply chain experience.
* Enterprise master data or data-governance platforms; SAP, Teamcenter, MRP; Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar tools. * Large-scale enterprise transformation and geographically distributed teams.

Soft Skills
* Clear communication with business users, technical teams, vendors, product leadership, and executives.
* Strong stakeholder facilitation, organization, follow-through, and concise status communication. (Desired)

Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications: Disqualifiers / Red Flags
* Less than five years of relevant experience.
* Limited experience with requirements, Agile backlog/change management, UAT, or defect/incident coordination.
* Unable to work onsite five days per week in Peoria, IL.