- General Mills Digital & Technology department is developing a developing a best-in-class Product Content Management (PIM) capability to accelerate growth in the stores and on the digital shelf. We are accelerating a Digital Transformation of our Product Information Management (PIM) capabilities to provide a competitive advantage to our business. To this end we are looking for a Sr. D&T Analyst, with passion for Product Content Management and Analytics, to join our Product Information Capabilities team.
- This role will play critical role of linking business objectives to core technological capabilities. D&T Analyst-I will be responsible for collecting requirements from business, establishing processes, and coordinating the work with our technical development team. This team member will also likely have accountabilities in coordinating work with both strategic and technical consulting 3rd parties.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Ecommerce content publishing (70%):
o Publish the content on different ecommerce websites for various retailers.
o Web-checking to ensure that the right content is getting published corresponding to the right products.
o Audit on an ongoing basis.
Digital Asset Management (Mojo)(20%):
o Upload assets to GMI s digital asset management system Mojo.
o Applying appropriate metadata to wide range of asset types, including logos, packaging, cookbooks, recipe magazines, and image photography, videos, asset guides, and equity characters to ensure optimal search results.
o Manage workflow for asset ingestion, metadata automation, and hierarchy integrity.
Other (10%):
o Work on Continuous Improvement (CI) Initiatives focusing on increasing efficiencies and automation wherever needed. Seek opportunities to enhance processes and workflows.
o Update system documentation as needed.
o Track and report metrics on a regular basis.
o Collaborate with a Product Owner/Solutions Manager to shape the end-to-end product strategy and determine business value.
o Identify opportunities for process improvements and establish best practices which can be applied across all customers.
o Ensure best practices and standards are being followed and solution is aligned with global vision of Product Information capabilities team.
o Conduct or lead discovery efforts into product information publication issues. Translate findings into user stories and acceptance criteria for team.
o Partner with business users to develop effective demo to reduce rework.
o Negotiate accountabilities between business, functions, or teams in cases where there are disagreements or identified data issues.
o Prepare training materials as needed to conduct and facilitate training to increase awareness and drive the smooth adoption of technology.
o Assist in defining and documenting processes, templates, and technical specifications.
o Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure data requirements are an accurate representation of business need to execute master data maintenance activities.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Education Full time graduation from an accredited university
- Bachelor s Degree
- Some experience leading / working with teams in an agile setting as an analyst
- Experience working as an Analyst on large technology implementation project
- Excellent problem solver with ability to lead the team to push the solution
- Ability to research, plan, organize, lead, and implement new processes or technology
- Strong communication skills with ability to present complex messages and trade-offs and tell a compelling story
- Able to articulate business requirements and bridge the gap with development teams and stakeholders.
- Experience with change management
- Experience working with Vendors
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Exposure to Product Information Management Systems (PIM/MDM)
- Experience or exposure to ScreenDragon
- Experience with Data Syndication partners such as 1WorldSync, Syndigo and Salsify.
- Exposure to GDSN Standards
- Experience in Adobe Workfront
- Experience in Monday
- Experience in Aprimo
- Experience in Reporting & Analytics
