Job Details:
Tyson Foods is growing! Come be part of a team that wants to help transform Tyson Foods by enabling technology to improve processes and our customer and team member experiences. The IT Food Safety Quality Assurance & Environmental, Health and Safety Business Solutions Team seeks an Analyst Applications to participate in the implementation of productivity projects across facilities. The mission is to ensure initiation, follow-through, and completion of tasks related to IT Business Analyst to meet timelines.
You will need to be thorough and detail oriented. You will need to be passionately customer and outcome focused. This role requires demonstrated experience with meeting goals and deadlines. Standard computer skills; must have strong skills in document creation, organization, and the use of technical materials.
Responsibilities
- Act as the IT partner to the business, aligning technology to business goals and delivering best-in-class technology solutions.
- Cultivate strong business relationships by demonstrating an understanding of related processes, requirements, systems, and terminology
- Partner with stakeholder teams across business units to document necessary business cases to frame opportunities, benefits, and risks to decide on a course of action
- Stay current with stakeholder needs and strategies by developing a communication process utilizing formal and informal methods to communicate updates and findings and facilitating project meetings and presentations to all types of diverse audiences (e.g. senior management, customers, technical staff)
- Work with business and IT Leadership to develop IT strategies and technical roadmaps
- Coordinate, influence, and gain alignment of cross-functional business & IT teams to develop scalable and strategic solutions that meet business needs
- Assist in the project delivery of multi-business technology solutions and must have significant exposure to and demonstrated proficiency in the areas of analysis, design, software requirements, configuration, testing, and implementation.
- Partner with software vendors on functionality roadmaps and critical issues to ensure vendor solutions are aligned with business roadmaps and initiatives
- Maintain awareness of best practices including processes and technology and identify opportunities for improvement of existing functionality
- Analyze and interpret information technology proposals and evaluate and develop alternative implementation plans
- Participate in cross functional meetings & organize/deliver information to audiences at all levels within the company, including executive stakeholders
- Develop strong working relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendors
Requirements
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, other technical areas or equivalent experience
Experience:
- 2+ years of experience in Information Systems or related area with proven experience as a business analyst
- 2+ years of experience in gathering and documenting requirements
- 2+ years of business process modeling experience preferred
- Computer skills: Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
Communication skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to tell the “story”
- Experience communicating technical information to stakeholders, peers, management and non-technical team members
- Experience communicating functional requirements to highly technical team members
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively across the team with a growth mindset propensity towards action and learning
- Ability to work independently and set priorities based on key milestones, impact to strategic initiatives and high-level direction of management
- Ability to handle initiatives in a high-paced environment
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with hardware tools and software communicating platforms
- Be able to work closely with a project team and external vendors
- Experience with safety, environmental/health, SFQA.
Location:
Springdale, Arkansas (onsite)
* Not eligible for sponsorship
* Not eligible for relocation
Relocation Assistance Eligible:
No
Work Shift:
1ST SHIFT (United States of America)
Hourly Applicants ONLY -You must complete the task after submitting your application to provide additional information to be considered for employment.
Tyson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.
We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.
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What We Do
World's largest processor and marketer of protein food products.
We think differently and we act boldly. At Tyson Foods, we're not only ready for tomorrow, we’re leading the way.
We are a company of people engaged in the production of food, seeking to pursue truth and integrity, and committed to creating value for our shareholders, our customers, our team members, and our communities.
We built our name on providing generations of families with wholesome, great-tasting chicken. But today’s Tyson Foods is so much more. As values and behaviors around food have changed, so have we. Today, we’re innovators uniquely positioned to reshape what it means to feed our world. Today, we not only have the fastest growing portfolio of protein-centric brands, we offer greater transparency into everything we do.
