Analyst - Development

The Development Analyst supports the end-to-end development process by driving visibility, coordination, and operational discipline across development teams. This role helps maintain development momentum by tracking milestones, surfacing risks, organizing decision-making, and ensuring cross-functional alignment throughout the product lifecycle. The Analyst is not expected to serve as the technical decision-maker but must build strong working knowledge of development workflows, engineering dependencies, and manufacturing processes to support effective escalation and execution.

• Create and maintain development timelines, milestone trackers, and project status dashboard
• Track progress across active development launches
• Identify timeline risks, bottlenecks, and overdue dependencies
• Escalate blockers through defined governance channels
• Prepare development status updates and meeting materials

• Oversee and manage stone inventory needs for projects; including stone requests, work order creation, work order clean up, bill of material set up and PO requests
• Support stage-gate readiness tracking
• Confirm required approvals and deliverables are completed before milestone transitions
• Maintain centralized documentation for development decisions
• Help standardize reporting, templates, and development workflows
• Improve process visibility and accountability

• Partner closely with Product Marketing, Design, JDIW, Industrial, Planning, GA/DD and external suppliers to drive business needs
• Effectively Coordinate information flow across teams
• Ensure development milestone handoffs are complete and timely
• Track action items and ownership from development meetings following through on open dependencies
• Support issue resolution through structured escalation

• Monitor development plans for schedule risk
• Identify missing information, unresolved dependencies, or conflicting priorities
• Escalate issues early when timelines or deliverables are at risk