smartwith heart
Product Analyst Distribution Planning
Ghent, Belgium - Product Development department
Do you want to shape our tools of tomorrow? Are you creative with a good eye for detail? And are you ready to join a place where smart solutions meet human collaboration?
If so, look no further and become a Product Analyst at OMP!
Our offer
We offer you more than just a job. Our culture and benefits inspire you to become the best version of yourself.
- Continuous learning: Access customized training, coaching programs, and on-the-job development opportunities.
- Flexibility: Flex your schedule with working from home, adaptable hours, and the autonomy to shape your routine.
- Benefits: An attractive salary package including an optional company car, a bike incentive program, additional extralegal vacation days, and other competitive benefits.
- Collaborative culture: Cross-team collaboration and creative challenges that encourage you to share knowledge, celebrate wins, and grow together.
- Innovation: Encouragement to think differently through cross-team collaboration and innovation challenges
- Well-being: Thrive in a workplace that supports your physical and mental health by promoting a wide range of facilities and activities like birthday events, sports sessions, in-house coaches, and healthy meal options.
Our company
We’re a leading game changer that optimizes supply chains with our very own smart software and services. With a team of 1,400+ passionate, creative minds from over 70 nationalities, we help the world’s largest companies to run their supply chains more efficiently and sustainably. Our customers include BASF, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Nestlé, and Procter & Gamble. Ready to be smart with heart? Join our team where technical expertise and human connection create solutions that scale globally and make a lasting impression.
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Your challenge
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 in the solver team, you are the eyes and ears of the product development team, where you stay closely involved in how consultants configure our solvers at customers, give support as product expert to consultants, and bring back new requirements to the development team. Together with the developers, you will analyze customer requests, prioritize with respect to other extensions and prepare functional requirements based on existing use cases. You will advertise and support consultants when adopting new functionalities at pilot customers. Additionally, you will be involved in designing and maintaining trainings and documentation linked to our areas of expertise.
You will also be involved in determining the long-term product vision and contribute to innovative projects to keep our solver offering competitive in the market.
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.
About you
Essential talents and qualifications:
- A Master’s or PhD degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Applied Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or similar.
- Great analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.
- Keen to translate real-life challenges into workable, supportable software models given a set of constraints and requirements.
- Strong affinity with IT systems.
- Basic programming skills.
- The skills to conceive and develop technical documentation.
- A desire to take ownership of your work.
- Punctual.
- Able to master the details while keeping a global overview.
- Comfortable at working under pressure, even with firm deadlines.
Bonus points if you have:
- Considered as a bonus:
- 1 to 3 years of relevant experience in a supply chain planning (software) function or as a business, product, or functional analyst in a product development organization.
- Knowledge of agile and scrum methodology.
- Experience with SQL.
- Affinity with mathematical modeling and/or machine learning techniques.
- Prior experience in one of our core industries.
- But most of all, you are fun to work with and a great team player!
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Your future
We find the perfect intersection of your talents and our evolving needs. Our talent management program supports your personal development and empowers you to build a career in line with your ambitions.Many of our team members who start as a product analyst grow into the role of solution architect, product expert, product manager, or team manager.