R&D Regional Systems Functional Analyst

Mars International; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars International seeks an R&D Regional Systems Functional Analyst to support regional R&D systems across Mars Snacking, Petcare and Food segments. You will translate business needs into technical requirements and support testing, training, and issue resolution.

You will work with cross-functional users, manage incidents, and contribute to data quality and governance initiatives, while coordinating change management activities with MDT teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor level degree in science or IT systems or equivalent
• Experience in R&D, Quality, R&D systems, Supply or DT/Business partnerships preferred
• Strong data analysis and Power Platform experience preferred
• Excellent English communication and stakeholder engagement abilities

Responsibilities

• Provide key user support as escalation point for system issues
• Develop and maintain training curriculum and materials
• Create and maintain testing documentation and scenarios
• Analyze incident trends and drive continuous improvements
• Collaborate with development teams to resolve system issues and support testing
• Support data quality governance and data analysis requests
• Coordinate CIP testing and UAT activities
• Assist deployment activities with data/process analysis

Skills

Power Platforms

Power Automate

Power BI

Excel

Data analytics

English communication

Requirements translation

Education

Bachelor's degree in science or IT systems

Tools

Atlas

Nexus

ERP Systems

Job description

Role : R&D Regional Systems Functional Analyst

Location : Bengaluru/Hyderabad/Pune

Job Purpose

To continue to deliver our commitment to the Quality Principle and protect our investment in strategic digital R&D and Quality capabilities, the business requires the right level of sustained functional expert support. The Functional Expert organization ensures the sustainability and maintenance of deployed enterprise R&D Systems/Platforms in the region; expectation to deliver functional analysis and expertise to the Business across Mars Snacking, Petcare, and Food segments.

This role will work closely with the R&D Regional Systems Functional Experts, Key Business Users, and Corporate Product Owners. Day-to-day activities may include incident management, key user training support, translating business needs into technical requirements, defining test scripts, testing effective delivery of technical capability, analysis of issues and trends, root cause analysis, et al.

Job Responsibilities

Key/End User support and Knowledge Management

• Providing key user support as a point of escalation for system issues.
• Strong support for development and maintenance of key/end user training curriculum and training materials.
• Develops and maintains testing documentation (testing scenarios, scripts).
• Performance review of service level effectiveness (incident trends, SLAs) to drive continuous improvements.
• Partners with development team to support resolution of system issues/bugs.
• Drives rapid response to Code Red incidents and support technical teams by providing functional input into analysis, solutioning, testing and approval.

Governance (System process and data quality)

• Supports regional FEs in system/ data quality compliance and root cause analysis of gaps with key users/end users.
• Supports data analysis of Traceability issues or Regulatory queries as requested by Data Custodians.

Operational support and Change Management

• Incident management.
• Support Regional FE in CIP management, focusing on testing (SIT, coordination of UAT and End-to-end testing).
• Works closely with MDT (Mars Digital Technologies) team on impact assessment of system changes002E
• Definition of business test case scenarios based on business requirements and their translation to the MDT development and testing teams.
• Provides input to Data council and Corporate R&D team on reporting improvements and data analysis tools.

New capability deployment

• Supports Functional Expert in deployment activities by executing data and process analysis.
• Manages deployment related development requests (VADS) and service tickets.
• Supports Key/end user training journey (defining curriculum, developing training materials, executing training sessions, supports hyper-care).

Job Specifications /Qualifications

Education & Professional Qualifications

Minimum bachelor s degree in science or IT systems or equivalent in food safety/food science or related subject area is desirable Experience in R&D, Quality, R&D systems, Supply or DT/Business partnership preferred

Knowledge / Experience

Experience with Atlas, Nexus, and ERP Agnostic systems preferred Excellent networker, easily builds rapport remotely Excellent communication skills (oral and written). Fluent in English Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements Experience with Power Platforms (Apps, Power Automate, PBI) and advanced Excel and/or other data analytics tools preferred Strong data analysis capability