Product Analyst

Dexian; Chillicothe (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexian is seeking a Product Analyst to join the Mossville, IL area on first shift for a 12-month duration. The role focuses on translating business needs into actionable requirements and supporting the product lifecycle from intake through testing, release, stabilization, and adoption.

Ideal candidates bring 8–10 years of experience in enterprise product analysis, strong facilitation, documentation skills, and comfort coordinating cross-functional teams including IT, testing, and external

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Functional Analyst, or similar role supporting enterprise applications or digital products.
• Knowledge of Agile backlog/change management, UAT, and defect coordination required.
• BS Degree required; internships accepted as job experience.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate discovery sessions, workshops, and stakeholder interviews; document functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, use cases, processes, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and refine the product backlog; assess enhancement requests and prepare items for prioritization, sprint planning, release planning, and vendor execution.
• Provide first-level functional support; investigate incidents, defects, and data issues; coordinate resolution and stakeholder communication.
• Plan and coordinate UAT, defect triage, retesting, business sign-off, deployment readiness, and stabilization.
• Maintain decisions, actions, process documentation, user guides, FAQs, training content, release communications, and status reporting.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

User stories

Process mapping

Acceptance criteria

Traceability

Stakeholder facilitation

Communication

Education

BS Degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

SAP

Teamcenter

MRP

Job description

Job Title - Product Analyst
Estimated Start Date 5 October 2026
Building Location - Mossville IL
Daily Schedule - First shift
Estimated Duration 12 months
Pay Range: $40-41/hr

Job Description

Position's Contributions to Work Group

• Serve as liaison among the Product Owner, Business Process Owners, business stakeholders, IT, development and testing teams, and external technology partners.
• Translate business needs into actionable requirements and support the product lifecycle from intake through testing, release, stabilization, and adoption. Core Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

• Facilitate discovery sessions, workshops, and stakeholder interviews; document functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and refine the product backlog; assess enhancement requests and prepare items for prioritization, sprint planning, release planning, and vendor execution.
• Provide first-level functional support; investigate and document incidents, defects, and data issues; coordinate resolution and stakeholder communication.
• Plan and coordinate UAT, defect triage, retesting, business sign-off, deployment readiness, release validation, and stabilization.
• Maintain decisions, actions, process documentation, user guides, FAQs, training content, release communications, and status reporting.

Expected Deliverables

• Delivery-ready backlog and traceable requirements artifacts.
• UAT plans, evidence, defect logs, sign-offs, and release-readiness assessments.
• Support intake and resolution tracking, user documentation, adoption content, status reporting, and continuous-improvement recommendations.
• Improve requirement quality, manage enhancement demand, support users, coordinate testing, and maintain alignment across business, IT, and external technology partners.
• Support BOM/BOD, a strategic enterprise data product serving supply chain, procurement, and downstream digital initiatives.

Surrounding Team and Key Work

• Works with the Product Owner, Business Process Owners, business stakeholders, IT, development teams, testing teams, and external technology partners.
• Supports product backlog, change requests, production support, UAT, releases, documentation, adoption, and governance.

Reason/motivation for request: - Addition

• High-visibility opportunity to influence a strategic enterprise data product across supply chain, procurement, and digital initiatives.
• End-to-end exposure across discovery, requirements, backlog management, production support, UAT, release readiness, adoption, and governance.
• Direct collaboration with business, IT, product leadership, testing teams, and external technology partners

Typical Day or Week in the Role

• Facilitate discovery and requirements sessions; develop user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria, and traceability.
• Refine backlog and change requests; assess value, urgency, impact, complexity, dependencies, and readiness.
• Triage user questions, incidents, defects, and data issues; coordinate resolution and communicate status.
• Plan and coordinate UAT, defect retesting, sign-off, release validation, and stabilization.
• Prepare status updates, decision/action logs, documentation, user guides, FAQs, training, and release communications.

Interaction with Team

• Frequent cross-functional interaction with the Product Owner, process owners, business users, IT, development/testing teams, and external partners.

Team Structure

• Works under the direction of the BOM/BOD Product Owner or designated program leader in a cross-functional delivery model.

• Years of experience: 8-10 years as a Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Functional Analyst, or similar role supporting enterprise applications or digital products.
• Degree requirement: BS Degree;
• Do you accept internships as job experience: Yes
• Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Functional Analyst.

Top 3 Skills Requirements elicitation and documentation, including user stories, process mapping, acceptance criteria, and traceability

• Product backlog, enhancement intake, and change-request management in an Agile environment.
• UAT, defect/incident triage, release validation, and production stabilization.

Additional Technical Skills (Required)

Experience coordinating across business, technical, testing, and vendor teams.

• Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
• - (Desired) PLM, engineering BOM, manufacturing BOM, product data, sourcing data, or supply chain experience.
• Enterprise master data or data-governance platforms; SAP, Teamcenter, MRP; Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar tools.
• Large-scale enterprise transformation and geographically distributed teams.

Soft Skills

• Clear communication with business users, technical teams, vendors, product leadership, and executives.
• Strong stakeholder facilitation, organization, follow-through, and concise status communication. (Desired)

Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications: Disqualifiers / Red Flags

• Less than five years of relevant experience.
• Limited experience with requirements, Agile backlog/change management, UAT, or defect/incident coordination.
• Unable to work onsite five days per week in Peoria, IL.

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.

Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.