Product Analyst Distribution Planning

As a member of the Solver team within Product Development, you will have the opportunity to contribute to a wide range of functionalities used for automatically creating a supply plan that meets the given demand, constrained by the available production capabilities. With our different team members, we are involved end-to-end in delivering a supply planning solution towards our customers.

As a Product Analyst, you analyze and document global, cross-industry product requirements to cover present and future customer needs. Guided by our product managers and product architects, you share your detailed findings with our software developers, capture user stories, explain the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’, and validate developments through demos and prototyping. In addition, you apply your product knowledge to help roll out new product developments in customer projects.

You are responsible for:

• Improving one of our core product functions: network design, demand management, S&OP, operational planning, scheduling, cloud, data management & integration or value enhancers.
• Gathering new business requirements in close collaboration with our product consultants and experts.
• Writing detailed descriptions of future functionalities and user stories, guided by our experienced product managers and architects.
• Explaining the business benefits of new developments to our software engineers.
• Guiding new software developments throughout their life cycle by explaining the functional requirements, validating and documenting the delivered functionality, and giving input on acceptance testing, all in close collaboration with our product manager, software engineers and quality assurance engineers.
• Validating our solutions and functionalities with different stakeholders.
• Providing specialist product support to implementation consultants across all OMP’s core industries in the fields of project delivery, documentation and training.
• Building prototypes with generic cross-industry product potential for specific customer problems.