R&D Analyst

Sherwin-Williams•Pittsburgh, PA

About The Position

The R&D Systems Analyst supports North America Packaging laboratory, pilot plant, and production operations by creating, maintaining, and validating formula, raw material, intermediate, and finished-goods data across Product Data Hub (PDH), BIOS, Product Vision (PV), and related business systems. The role partners with R&D, Manufacturing, Sales, Procurement, Marketing, Quality, and IT to ensure product data is accurate, complete, and available to support product development, scale-up, and pilot operations. The analyst identifies data or system issues, coordinates resolution, and develops reports that improve data quality and operational visibility. The position involves access to confidential and proprietary information and may require a criminal-history review. Travel requirements are 10%.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline.
High level of accuracy and attention to detail when creating, reviewing, and maintaining technical and product data.
Ability to interpret formulas, raw-material information, product specifications, manufacturing requirements, and related technical documentation.
Ability to learn and work effectively within multiple product-development, master-data, reporting, and manufacturing systems.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including sorting, filtering, lookups, data validation, reconciliation, and basic data analysis.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including identifying discrepancies, determining root causes, and coordinating resolution.
Ability to manage multiple requests, prioritize work, maintain documentation, and meet established deadlines.
Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to gather information and explain data or system requirements to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Ability to work independently within established procedures and appropriately escalate exceptions, risks, or unresolved issues.
Ability to handle confidential and proprietary product and formula information appropriately.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related STEM discipline.
One year of experience supporting technical, product, material, formula, manufacturing, or master-data processes.

Responsibilities

Manage setup of Packaging formulas and raw materials in the Product Data Hub (PDH) system.
Serve as the lead point of contact for setting up new finished goods and internally produced raw materials across BIOS platforms.
Support BIOS setup of purchased raw materials and intermediates.
Work with Plants, Sales, and Technical teams to support Finished Good item creation.
Support System Formula Feedback completion in Product Vision (PV).
Enter quality control data for all NAR Pilot Plant batches.
Generate reports using Tableau, Business Objects, Navigator, and Advanced Excel.
Support formula entry and maintenance.
Maintain accurate and complete product data in accordance with established data-governance, documentation, and change-control requirements.
Identify data or system issues and coordinate their resolution.