• This role will report into the IT Applications Organization.
• The NPI Team is a product management driven organization. As a result, you will play a key role in the product management team and will work very closely with counterparts in Engineering, Legal, Marketing, Sales, Sales Operations, Channels, IT, Operations (including Trade Compliance, Logistics, Planning and Order Fulfillment), Global Customer Support, Tax, Revenue, and Executive Management to align technical solutions with business needs.
• Your primary focus is to improve the efficiency of our Go to Market activities for new product and service offerings by standardizing business operations flows and leveraging business analysis frameworks that link the key business processes and enterprise systems together.
• You will work in conjunction with the Program Manager and help drive program activities to support delivery of a portfolio of new Product and Service offerings with aggressive delivery timelines.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with Product Managers to intimately understand and document product requirements
• Build consensus from cross-functional leads on business requirements
• Assist in documenting cross-functional business requirements and develop user stories
• Work with assigned Program Managers to set up test data and scenarios for UAT
• Work with Product Managers and Program Manager to ensure adherence to NPI Business Standards and identify deviations from defined standards
• Work with business partners to develop a standard set of test cases that can be leveraged across offerings to improve efficiency.
• Partner with IT to leverage automation for items such as regression testing to improve overall quality when projects are ready for UAT.
• For assigned projects, perform QA by performing systems and integration testing, and document test results.
• Partner with IT, as needed, to avoid duplicate test efforts.
• Identify bugs and work with IT to drive to closure.
• Participate in IT and Engineering discussions to understand and influence integration elements between business systems and product. Apply this knowledge during business requirements definition to ensure seamless integration of front and back end business systems.
• Help define product use cases and confirm business requirements account for the various use cases.

Skills:

• 3-5 years relevant work experience with experience working with teams in support of launching new products or services.
• At least 3 years of demonstrated experience with lead to cash flows
• Configuring SKUs , Quoting, Finance, Billing and other backend processes.
• Experience with processes and product offerings that include recurring revenue and billing streams.
• Experience writing User Stories, converting business requirements to User Stories for development.
• Experience with Confluence and JIRA is highly desired.
• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes, and enabling technologies .
• Demonstrated working knowledge of systems supporting high technology business processes.
• CRM, Planning, Licensing, Support Enablement systems
• Prior experience with Salesforce, Steelbrick CPQ, or SAP preferred
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and workflow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery
• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
• Good working knowledge of Google Suite of Productivity Tools.

Education: - BS in related discipline

Required Skills:

BUSINESS ANALYSIS

REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION

REGRESSION TESTING

QA

BUSINESS OPERATIONS

Additional Skills:

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

DOCUMENTING

FINANCE

INTEGRATION

JIRA

LIAISON

LOGISTICS

MARKETING

NPI

OPERATIONS

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

PROGRAM MANAGER

QUOTING

SALES OPERATIONS

SAP

TEAM PLAYER

UAT

USE CASES

WORKFLOW

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

EXCELLENT WRITTEN AND VERBAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS INTEGRATOR NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION PROCESS MANAGEMENT SELF-STARTER TEST CASES

Required Skills : Jira,SalesForce.com,SAP
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Project Management Office
Master Job Title :Bus. Analyst: Functional
Branch Code :Silicon Valley