Business Intelligence Analyst - PLM; Product Lifecyle Management; Austin, M

STAFF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANALYST - PLM (PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE) - (AUSTIN, MN OR EDEN PRAIRIE, MN)

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Hormel Foods Corporation

ABOUT HORMEL FOODS —Inspired People. Inspired Food.™

Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minnesota, is a global branded food company with approximately $12 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters®, Skippy®, SPAM®, Hormel® Natural Choice®, Applegate®, Justin’s®, Wholly®, Hormel® Black Label®, Columbus®, Jennie-O® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named one of the best companies to work for by U.S. News & World Report, one of America’s most responsible companies by Newsweek, recognized by TIME magazine as one of the World’s Best Companies, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts.

The company lives by its purpose statement —Inspired People. Inspired Food.™— to bring some of the world’s most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit

We are looking for a Staff BI Analyst focused on Product Lifecyle Management (PLM) within the Operational Reporting function as part of our Data and Analytics team. This is an exciting opportunity to help transform PLM capabilities at Hormel Foods! The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across multiple levels of the organization.

You will gather requirements, design, develop and test Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) operational and transactional dashboards and reports using Oracle Cloud business intelligence tools - Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI), Business Intelligence Publisher (BI Publisher) and SQL. Perform issue resolution and maintenance for existing dashboards and reports. This role will contribute directly to enhancing visibility and automation for critical PLM processes including product development, change management, and product data governance.

• Reports and Dashboards: Enables effective decision-making by retrieving and aggregating data into a digestible format. Gathers requirements, designs, and develops reports and dashboards within business intelligence platforms for operational, transactional, or strategic data. Leverages interactive reporting components to build drill-through or ad-hoc reports.
• Business Knowledge and Analysis: Establishes understanding of business processes and concepts in assigned areas to create reporting solutions that meet business' operational, transactional, or strategic analysis goals and objectives and communicating progress.
• PLM Data Expertise: Understands the structure and flow of product data across Oracle Cloud PLM modules, including item master, bills of materials (BOMs), engineering change orders (ECOs), and product attributes.
• Data Queries and Models: Deeply understands core tables within the data models available and connects data with queries on small to medium size data sets. Reads, writes, and analyzes queries in query language for analysis and report development purposes.
• Data Performance and Automation: Achieves acceptable report solution performance through any means within the transactional, operational, or analytical systems. Takes into consideration automation for reducing human intervention through automated report delivery or process automation.

• Collaborate with Oracle PLM functional team members to understand product lifecycle business processes and gather reporting requirements.
  • Engage stakeholders through iterative development and reviews to ensure the reports meet business needs prior to production deployment.
• Take ownership of PLM reporting initiatives, proactively identifying opportunities to improve visibility, data quality, and decision-making across the product lifecycle.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with existing PLM-related reports, coordinating fixes with…