Product Analyst

Job Description:

Job Title - Product Analyst

Segment / Business Unit - Mars Snacking

Country / Site - India (Mumbai)

Job Function - Digital Technology

Expected Job Level - T1

Manager’s Name & Position - Deepawal Grover

Job Purpose:

The Product Analyst – Field Sales Execution will work closely with the Product Owner to translate product vision, business priorities, and frontline sales needs into scalable digital capabilities.

The role will act as a key bridge between Product, Business, Technology, Data, UX, and market teams, ensuring requirements are clearly defined, development-ready, effectively delivered, and aligned with the overall Retail Execution product strategy.

Job Responsibilities:

Product Owner & Product Management Support

- Partner closely with the Product Owner to translate product vision and roadmap into capabilities, features, and user stories.
- Support product discovery, feature definition, backlog refinement, and prioritization.
- Provide analysis, options, business impact, and recommendations to support Product Owner decisions.
- Ensure the product backlog is sufficiently refined and ready for development.
- Laise with global product team to understand release cycle and product changes

Business & Functional Analysis

- Engage with global and cluster Sales teams, field representatives, and market stakeholders to understand business processes, pain points, and opportunities.
- Translate business requirements into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and functional requirements.
- Analyze requirements to identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, and reuse across markets.
- Identify functional gaps, dependencies, edge cases, and integration requirements.

Agile Delivery

- Work closely with engineering, architecture, UX, data, and QA teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily collaboration, product demos, and retrospectives along with Product Owner
- Clarify functional requirements during development and facilitate timely resolution of business questions.
- Validate delivered capabilities against requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Support dependency and defect management across teams

Market Engagement & Product Adoption

- Gather structured feedback from markets and frontline users.
- Help differentiate local requirements from capabilities that should become part of the global product.
- Support pilots, market rollouts, training, release communications, and adoption activities.
- Analyze usage and adoption to identify opportunities for continuous product improvement.

Scope:

Key interfaces will be:

- Global Product Team
- Clusters One Demand Team
- Regional One Demand Team

Job Specifications:

Education & Professional Qualification

·       2-5  years of experience in Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Product Management, or related roles.

·       Experience working within CPG/FMCG Sales, Retail Execution, CRM, SFA, or commercial technology.

·       Strong understanding of CPG field-sales and Retail Execution processes.

·       Experience working with Product Owners and Agile/Scrum delivery teams.

·       Strong capability in requirements gathering, process mapping, user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog refinement.

·       Experience supporting UAT and product releases.

·       Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.

. Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.

Knowledge / Experience

- Experience with Salesforce or other CRM/SFA/Retail Execution platforms.
- Understanding of Perfect Store methodologies and execution KPIs.
- Exposure to mobile applications, APIs, integrations, data platforms, and analytics.
- Experience with image recognition, GenAI, Agentic AI, or intelligent sales-assistant capabilities.
- Experience working on global products deployed across multiple markets and route-to-market models.