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Director
Job Number:
25070420
Company Name:
Information Resources, Inc.
Job Location:
Chicago, IL US
Job Category:
Management & Business
Director
Job Title Director
Job Location Chicago, IL
Job Type Full-Time Regular
Position Id 2010-771
Job Description
The Company: Originally founded in 1979 as Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), SymphonyIRI Group is the world's leading innovative partner that helps clients transform insight into impact at every level of their organization across sales, marketing, merchandising, category/brand management and shopper marketing to achieve high performance and growth. Driving the transformation of the consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, and healthcare industries, only SymphonyIRI has the unique offering of intelligent people with deep domain expertise across a variety of different industries and specialties, the innovative solutions powered by predictive analytical models and breakthrough information processing and business intelligence capabilities supported by revolutionary technology platforms and the integration of unrivaled empirical information on markets, consumers and shoppers from virtually any source to deliver new levels of performance and growth.
The company has been providing market solutions for CPG manufacturers and retailers for nearly 30 years. In late 2003, the company was acquired by the industry-visionary company Symphony Technology Group, run by Dr. Romesh Wadhwani. That acquisition has been the catalyst for a major transformation. Since the acquisition, the company has focused on changing the value proposition for its CPG, retail and healthcare clients by striving for a ten-fold increase in the value its clients realize from its market information, analytic, strategic consulting and decision support software solutions. To support these efforts, SymphonyIRI has been focused on developing predictive, on-demand analytic applications designed to empower manufacturers and retailers to manage their businesses for profitable growth.
Currently privately held, SymphonyIRI Holdings, Inc. serves as a holding company for the equity interests of SymphonyIRI shareholders. Symphony Technology Group, a leading provider of enterprise solutions that enable maximum business performance in the consumer products and retail industries, is the majority shareholder of SymphonyIRI Holdings. With its vast client base, Symphony enhances SymphonyIRI's collective powers of investment, industry expertise, research and development, global operations, and technology to address its clients' needs.
Reporting Relationship: The Director will report to a Team Lead in the Technology Product Management Group who reports to the Vice President. The Vice President reports to the Senior Vice President who reports to the Executive Vice President in charge of the field Technology organization. The Executive Vice President reports to the CEO of the global IRI organization.
Responsibilities: The position of Director, Business/Requirements Analyst is a highly visible role working on a new and innovative "Shopper Marketing" Project that is highly backed by the CEO of the organization. The Director's primary responsibility will be to elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify, and manage the real needs of the project stakeholders, including customers and end users at key retailers. The requirements analyst serves as the conduit between the customer community and the software development team through which requirements flow. Current economic trends have given IRI an incredible opportunity to help clients position themselves for the post-crisis consumer landscape. The Director will be on the front-lines of this important work.
Requirements: · Work with the product manager to document the product's vision and the project's scope. · Identify project stakeholders and user classes. Document user class characteristics. Identify appropriate representatives for each user class and negotiate their responsibilities. · Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints. · Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely. · Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements and quality, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those must base their work on the requirements. · Define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements. · Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate. · Lead requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards. · Participate in requirements prioritization. · Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents. Participate in peer reviews of work products derived from requirements specifications to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly. · Enter, manipulate, and report on requirements stored in Rational's ReqPro requirements management tool. Define requirement attributes and facilitate their use throughout the project. · Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project. · Manage changes to baseline requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools. · Establish and implement effective requirements practices, including use and continuous improvement of a requirements process. Assist with the development of the organization's requirements engineering policies, procedures, and tools. · Implement ways to reuse requirements across projects. · Identify ways to assist product management in product planning through requirements development and analysis. Propose new product features and updates.
Required Experience: · A working knowledge of at least one of the following applications: Flex, Flash, Middleware, Web Development, Oracle and DB2 · Interviewing skills, to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information · Listening skills, to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say · Analytical skills, to critically ev aluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements · Facilitation skills, to lead requirements elicitation workshops · Observational skills, to validate data obtained via other techniques and expose new areas for elicitation · Tech Writing skills, to communicate information effectively to customers, marketing, managers, and technical staff · Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information · Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as customers, product management, and engineering) · Presentation skills to be able to describe the technical aspects to an audience · Modeling skills, to represent requirements information in graphical forms that augment textual representations in natural language, including using modeling languages already established in the development organization · Proven ability to self-start and drive initiatives with minimal direction · Undergraduate degree is required. Advanced degree is a plus
Additional skills desired, but not required include: · Experience working in an agile development environment · CPG and Retailer domain knowledge is a plus, to have credibility with user representatives and be able to work effectively with them.
About SymphonyIRI Group SymphonyIRI Group, formerly named Information Resources, Inc. ("IRI"), is the global leader in innovative solutions and services for driving revenue and profit growth in CPG, retail and healthcare companies. SymphonyIRI offers two families of solutions: Core IRI solutions for market measurement and Symphony Advantage solutions for enabling new growth opportunities in marketing, sales, shopper marketing and category management. SymphonyIRI solutions uniquely combine content, analytics and technology to deliver maximum impact. SymphonyIRI helps companies create, plan and execute forward-looking, shopper-centric strategies across every level of the organization. For more information, visit .
