About:

• Location: Akron, OH
• Contract: 6 months

The Role:

• Collaborate with business and development leaders to define project scope, vision, and identify constraints, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and issues
• Elicit business and user requirements through workshops, meetings, workflow storyboards, user stories, process modeling, competitive analysis, and other methods
• Translate business and user requirements into functional/technical requirements and use cases that are clear and comprehensible to developers, including data mapping, decision tables, and rules
• Develop UX prototypes of interfaces based on user requirements
• Evaluate business needs against regulatory, OOTB, and industry standard requirements to determine strategic initiatives and priorities
• Identify opportunities for process optimization through re-engineering or technology implementation
• Create and manage Business Requirement Documents
• Work with stakeholders to prioritize requirements and obtain approval
• Track requirement status throughout the project lifecycle
• Communicate requirement changes, enhancements, and modifications to all stakeholders following established processes
• Participate in quality peer review processes to ensure requirements meet standards for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, and feasibility
• Validate test case coverage of requirements and participate in defect triage
• Perform quality control and analysis to verify objective completion
• Support post-release defect resolution with the development team
• Develop release processes ensuring end-user knowledge transfer
• Drive change and process improvement initiatives

Essential Skills:

• We are seeking a Business Analyst with PLM expertise to partner with product owners and business users.
• The role involves gathering, defining, and translating business requirements and technical specifications related to 3DEXPERIENCE platform (or similar) development, system integrations, and third-party interfaces. We are looking for a collaborative and critical thinker with experience in engineering, product development, or automotive industry.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
• Strong organizational and time management capabilities
• Advanced problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences
• Experience working in Agile environments
• Experience with geographically distributed teams (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across all organizational levels
• Capacity to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Proficiency in project management, word processing, and spreadsheet applications
• Understanding of internal business partner terminology
• Proven ability to serve as an effective liaison between business and technical teams
• Candidate qualification priority:
• 1. Good Communication need to have engaging conversation with the Business/User community
• 2. PD/Engineering background
• 3. PLM background (3DX preferred)
• 4. Onsite requirement.

Desirable Skills:

• Collaborate with business and development leaders to define project scope, vision, and identify constraints, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and issues
• Elicit business and user requirements through workshops, meetings, workflow storyboards, user stories, process modeling, competitive analysis, and other methods
• Translate business and user requirements into functional/technical requirements and use cases that are clear and comprehensible to developers, including data mapping, decision tables, and rules
• Develop UX prototypes of interfaces based on user requirements
• Evaluate business needs against regulatory, OOTB, and industry standard requirements to determine strategic initiatives and priorities
• Identify opportunities for process optimization through re-engineering or technology implementation
• Create and manage Business Requirement Documents
• Work with stakeholders to prioritize requirements and obtain approval
• Track requirement status throughout the project lifecycle
• Communicate requirement changes, enhancements, and modifications to all stakeholders following established processes
• Participate in quality peer review processes to ensure requirements meet standards for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, and feasibility
• Validate test case coverage of requirements and participate in defect triage
• Perform quality control and analysis to verify objective completion
• Support post-release defect resolution with the development team
• Develop release processes ensuring end-user knowledge transfer
• Drive change and process improvement initiatives

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree is required
• 7+ years of experience in as a Business Analyst with PLM expertise.
• Experience in 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Experience in engineering, product development, or automotive industry.
• Experience working in Agile environments
  Experience with geographically distributed teams.
• PD/Engineering background.