Sr. Business Analyst

IP Corporation is a privately held chemical manufacturing organization that produces resins, gel coats, composite materials, and specialty polymer solutions. The Sr. Business Analyst - Product leads business analysis, data design, and governance efforts to establish a company-wide Product Master and catalog across PLM, ERP, MES, and CRM systems. The role facilitates cross-functional alignment, product data cleanup, taxonomy development, integration planning, and governance while mentoring other business analysts.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate discovery workshops and interviews with R&D, Sales, Product Management, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and IT to document how products, items, SKUs, formulations, components, and specifications are defined today
• Define and gain agreement on the enterprise product taxonomy and hierarchy, following industry best practice and ACMA-defined structures where they apply
• Develop the product master schema, covering identifiers, names and descriptions, brands and categories, units of measure, technical specifications, lifecycle status, parent-child relationships, required versus optional attributes, and data ownership
• Map existing products and items into the hierarchy, identify duplicate, obsolete, incomplete, or conflicting records, and translate the findings into cleanup rules and a prioritized remediation backlog
• Document what is mastered in Optiva PLM, what passes to MES and Infor M3, and how Salesforce CRM consumes product data, producing source-to-target mappings and integration requirements
• Establish data governance for product and catalog data, including who creates records, who approves changes, which system is authoritative, and how data-quality problems are resolved
• Partner with project managers to scope, plan, and deliver the Product Master workstream within the Infor M3 and Optiva relaunch
• Mentor mid-level and associate business analysts on data modeling, taxonomy, and governance practice

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree, with an MBA, CBAP, or equivalent experience
• 5 to 8 years of business analysis experience, including 3 or more years of hands-on product master data, PIM, item master, or product catalog work in a manufacturing or product-oriented environment
• Advanced skills in requirements management, taxonomy and attribute modeling, data dictionaries and parent-child relationships, process mapping, workshop facilitation, data governance and stewardship, stakeholder engagement, and root cause analysis
• Exposure to MDM, PIM, ERP, PLM, or MES platforms such as Optiva, SAP, Oracle, Informatica, Stibo, Syndigo, or Salsify, plus proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Ability to translate business definitions into functional data requirements, governance rules, integration needs, and cleanup actions, and to work independently with minimal guidance
• Industry certifications such as Lean Six Sigma or APICS, and PMP, Agile, or other project management experience or certification, are helpful
• Chemical, coatings, or process manufacturing industry experience is helpful
• Experience with product SKU rationalization, catalog build-out, post-acquisition data consolidation, or a data governance or stewardship program is helpful