Analyst Product Lifecycle Management

Tyson Foods•Springdale, AR

2d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Science, Business or a related field of study, or equivalent work experience, is required.
1+ years of relevant and practical work experience is required with a Bachelor’s degree.
Knowledge of regulatory requirements for labeling and nutrition.
Understanding of ingredient, allergen, claims, and product specification requirements that support accurate material setup and compliance.
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

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.