Sr Analyst IT

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It's our heritage and it's also our future. Because we don't just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic oversight for the process of collecting and managing requirements, ensuring that solutions align with business goals and deliver maximum value.
• Clearly define issues and develop business cases for process changes or enhancements
• Experience creating workflows and developing graphic representations of complex business processes
• Meet with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business requirements, and systems goals, and identify and resolve systems issues.
• Apply Agile methodologies in delivering Minimum Viable Products and iteratively scaling solutions for business value
• Ability to identify, create, prioritize, and groom user stories, acceptance criteria, and document key decisions
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, competitive product analysis
• Experience developing Functional requirements - describe what the system, process, or product/service must do in order to fulfill the business requirements
• Experience developing User (stakeholder) requirements - are a very important part of the deliverables, the needs of the stakeholders will have to be correctly interpreted
• Collaborate with Technology Development partners in the development and execution of solutions and in the development and testing of test scripts for software and process changes
• Research, evaluate, and present industry trends and technology advancements that may affect the company's services.
• Evaluate and analyze technical information and data related to quality indicators and recommend course corrections. Draft presentations and present summaries of trends, potential root causes, and recommended course corrections
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Engineering - any branch, Supply chain, Logistics, Business, Information Systems, or related field
• 5+ years of experience managing projects and initiatives in the manufacturing, quality, responsible sourcing, social and environmental sustainability, supply chain compliance, and/or human rights space
• Proficiency with Microsoft PC desktop applications including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, MS Project, and Visio
• Demonstrates the ability to work independently and in a team setting
• Proficiency in running and facilitating strategic meetings and communicating effectively with all levels of management
• Strong critical thinking skills—the ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to complex problems Preferred
• CBAP, AAC, CPOA or equivalent certifications from IIBA
• Proficiency with enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management software, or compliance management platforms like SAP, Oracle PLM, PTC Windchill
• Experience working with Veeva Vault applications in Consumer goods or Life Sciences industries
• 2-4+ years experience in consulting, strategy, tech or related experience; high-growth or early stage start-up experience or compliance experience
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Engineering - any branch, Supply chain, Logistics, Business, Information Systems, or related field
• 5+ years of experience managing projects and initiatives in the manufacturing, quality, responsible sourcing, social and environmental sustainability, supply chain compliance, and/or human rights space
• Proficiency with Microsoft PC desktop applications including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, MS Project, and Visio
• Demonstrates the ability to work independently and in a team setting
• Proficiency in running and facilitating strategic meetings and communicating effectively with all levels of management
• Strong critical thinking skills—the ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to complex problems Preferred
• CBAP, AAC, CPOA or equivalent certifications from IIBA