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Cognizant · 4 hours ago

Product Analyst (PA) PLM

Bridgewater, NJ

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Cognizant is seeking a highly skilled Product Analyst specializing in PLM to join their team. This hybrid role requires a proactive individual who can integrate technical expertise with domain knowledge in Medical Devices Manufacturing and Supply Chain to drive product success.

ConsultingIndustrial AutomationInformation TechnologySoftwareSoftware Engineering

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Qualification

PLM domain experiencePTC Windchill PDMLinkMedical Devices industryTechnical solutions deliveryJIRAAgile methodologiesProject managementSoftware development lifecycleUser stories authoringTeam management

Required

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