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Job Summary
The Analyst, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) plays a critical role in ensuring Tyson Foods delivers safe, high-quality, and compliant food products to market. This position exists to manage and optimize the flow of product data and specifications throughout the product lifecycle—from ideation through commercialization and beyond.
Serving as a bridge between cross-functional teams such as R&D, Operations, Regulatory, and Marketing, this role supports strategic business initiatives by maintaining data integrity, enabling digital systems, and ensuring compliance with industry regulations. The PLM Analyst is essential to driving consistency, efficiency, and transparency across Tyson’s product portfolio, helping to bring innovative products to market with speed and confidence.
This position sits full time onsite in Springdale, Arkansas.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Collaborate Cross-Functionally
Partner with IT and technical teams to ensure product lifecycle systems and solutions align with business needs and support end-user functionality.
Proactively identify, analyze, and resolve system, software, or application issues to minimize disruptions and maintain operational efficiency.
Act as a liaison between business users and technical teams to translate business needs into functional system requirements.
Reporting
Generate and analyze reports related to material creation, specification completion, workflow status, data quality, and commercialization activities. Utilize reporting tools to identify trends, process bottlenecks, and opportunities for improving data accuracy and operational efficiency.
Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to address challenges within the PLM domain and related technical areas.
Data Management
Create, maintain, and govern material master data and product specifications within PLM and connected enterprise systems. Ensure material records are accurate, complete, and aligned with formulation, labeling, manufacturing, procurement, and regulatory requirements.
Support material lifecycle processes including creation, modification, obsolescence, and commercialization activities.
Organization of critical data through specific PLM workflows, critical thinking around formulations, and product processing requirements is necessary to ensure operational and regulatory compliances are met.
Material Administration
Create and maintain material records.
Review material requests for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with established data governance standards.
Coordinate with IT, Master Data Governance, R&D, Innovators, Regulatory, Procurement, and other cross-functional teams to resolve material data issues.
Support commercialization timelines by ensuring material setup activities are completed accurately and on schedule.
Investigate and correct data quality issues and identify opportunities for process improvements.
Compliance & Product Specification
Maintain and validate material and specification data to support regulatory compliance, food safety requirements, and operational standards.
Execute specification and material setup activities while ensuring data consistency across PLM, and other integrated downstream systems.
System Guidance
Serve as a subject matter expert for material management and specification processes. Provide guidance to users on data standards, workflows, and system functionality. Partner with business and IT teams to evaluate enhancements, document requirements, test solutions, and improve user adoption.
Provide expertise and input on system enhancements and usage to drive innovation, process improvement, and business growth.
Contribute to the ongoing improvement of PLM processes, tools, and documentation to enhance efficiency and user experience.
Actively explore and responsibly adopt AI-enabled capabilities, automation, and digital tools to improve data accuracy, reduce manual effort, identify process trends, and enhance decision-making across PLM workflows.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Science, Business or a related field of study, or equivalent work experience, is required.
Work Experience
1+ years of relevant and practical work experience is required with a Bachelor’s degree.
Special/Technical Skills
Regulatory Knowledge
Knowledge of regulatory requirements for labeling and nutrition.
Understanding of ingredient, allergen, claims, and product specification requirements that support accurate material setup and compliance.
Data & Systems Knowledge
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems
Material Master Data Governance
Microsoft Office 365 applications and reporting tools
Workflow management and process documentation
Data quality analysis and root cause investigation
Travel
0–2+ Trips Per Year
Relocation Assistance Eligible:
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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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Business, or related field or equivalent work experience
- 1+ years of relevant and practical work experience
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements for labeling and nutrition
- Understanding of ingredient, allergen, claims, and product specification requirements
- Experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems
- Material master data governance experience
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 applications and reporting tools
- Experience with workflow management and process documentation
- Data quality analysis and root cause investigation skills
- Ability to work onsite in Springdale, Arkansas (first shift) and meet physical job requirements
Tyson Foods Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Tyson Foods and has not been reviewed or approved by Tyson Foods.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage start on day one and are complemented by telehealth, wellbeing programs, and added mental‑health support. Vision and basic dental are available at no additional cost, and preventive care is emphasized.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave has been expanded for birth and adoptive parents, signaling stronger family support. Select locations have piloted childcare solutions to better support shift workers.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company matching after a year and an employee stock purchase plan are available to build long‑term financial security. Company‑paid life and disability coverage further bolster the protection package.
Tyson Foods Insights
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.
