Functional Analyst - ERP

Who We Are

At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line.

Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation.

Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success:

• Runner First
  • We act in the best interest of the runner
• Word is Bond
  • We do what we say we’ll do
• Champion Heart
  • We give our all in everything we do
• There is no “I” in Run
  • We stay generous with our humanity
• Keep Moving
  • We find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic!

As the Functional Analyst – ERP at Brooks, you will participate in the requirements elicitation, design, development, testing, implementation, support, and maintenance of ERP solutions that meet Brooks’ business requirements. These may span across other systems, applications, and data sources within the enterprise. You will leverage your ERP experience to engage with IT and business teams (from Product, Finance, Supply Chain, Digital Products, eCommerce, Customer Service) to understand business processes and requirements and ensure that ERP functionality meets these.

As part of the global team focused on ERP and related integrations, you will work with architects and partner closely with other analysts and engineers to ensure that the design meets the business requirements and is aligned with enterprise solution guidelines. This position spans the full engineering lifecycle and upholds IT best practices, including ITIL‑based change management and control process.

ERP System Deliver

• Gather and translate requirements to create functional specifications, perform and maintain application configurations, collaborate with functional area SMEs to ensure alignment between the implemented process and business requirements.
• Collaborate with business teams and leverage your ERP knowledge to understand business operations and processes. Map business processes to ERP functionality, recommend process improvements and implement automation to improve process execution efficiency, where applicable.
• Work internally with Architects to understand cloud solution architecture and interdependencies between various ERP cloud suite components and externally with other enterprise solutions, such as OMS, WMS, PLM, etc.
• Articulate functional specification and business process context to engineers to facilitate the creation of technical specifications and thorough test cases.
• Build a robust harness of test cases, including regression and volume testing cases, to ensure rigorous testing in Unit testing, SIT and UAT testing. Work with Project Managers to provide input into test strategy and test planning. Document defects in detail and perform rigorous testing to ensure quality.
• Actively support business SMEs to ensure User Acceptance Test completion.
• Maintain data mappings for integrations. Provide subject matter knowledge and support for the creation of new and already established data integrations between ERP and other enterprise systems such as WMS, OMS, B2B and B2C platforms, etc., in projects as well as supporting production issues.
• Leverage data to validate process outcomes and efficacy. Demonstrate proficiency with ERP data model by contextualizing business processes and related complex data requirements and writing SQL queries for data retrieval, data analysis, identifying data anomalies and problem solving.
• Data Custodian into the Data Governance process for data topics/subjects relevant to the ERP.

ERP System Management

• Take part in upgrades, feature reviews, and system enhancements by systematically planning and coordinating updates and feature releases of cloud ERP.
• Conduct patch and upgrade impact assessments by reviewing release notes and following the opt‑in process to evaluate which features need to be enabled through feature toggles. Fully understand and account for any impacts to the business processes introduced as a result of this change.
• Ensure only thoroughly tested…