AI & Business Transformation Analyst

The AI & Business Transformation Analyst supports the Director of Innovation & Business Transformation in identifying, evaluating, organizing, and advancing high-value AI, innovation, and transformation opportunities across Blue Linx. This role combines structured problem-solving, business analysis, process mapping, AI-enabled opportunity assessment, initiative coordination, portfolio support, and executive-ready communication. As a force multiplier for the function, the Analyst helps translate ambiguous business needs and emerging AI capabilities into clear problem statements, process views, analyses, recommendations, decisions, actions, and measurable next steps.

The ideal candidate is a high-potential, technology-savvy problem solver with strong analytical, communication, and consulting-style capabilities. This role supports selected initiatives without serving as a traditional project administration function.

• Document current-state processes, workflows, roles, decisions, systems, pain points, and handoffs.
• Create clear process maps, swim lanes, SIPOCs, and other practical views that help teams understand how work occurs today.
• Facilitate structured discovery sessions and translate stakeholder input into concise problem statements and future-state considerations.
• Identify process friction, manual activity, decision delays, data gaps, and opportunities for simplification, automation, or new capabilities.
• Maintain organized process documentation that supports opportunity evaluation, solution design, adoption, and transition.

• Maintain a current portfolio inventory of AI, innovation, and business transformation opportunities and selected in-flight initiatives.
• Track initiative status, sponsors, owners, milestones, dependencies, stakeholders, risks, decisions, and near-term next steps to support portfolio visibility and follow-through.
• Gather the information needed to evaluate an opportunity, including the business problem, intended outcome, sponsor, owner, value hypothesis, readiness, dependencies, and capacity needs.
• Support initiative prioritization using defined enterprise value, strategic alignment, speed, readiness, confidence, complexity, dependency, and resource criteria.
• Prepare working summaries and executive portfolio reporting that distinguish immediate priorities from the broader opportunity backlog and surface key opportunities, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
• Keep portfolio information accurate and decision-ready without assuming project ownership or enterprise PMO responsibilities.

• Support the Director in quarterbacking selected cross-functional priorities at leadership direction.
• Track commitments, owners, decisions, milestones, risks, dependencies, barriers, and near-term next steps for selected work.
• Coordinate follow-up across business, technology, data, external partners, and other stakeholders.
• Prepare concise status views focused on progress, expected impact, barriers, and decisions needed.
• Promptly escalation incomplete information, stalled decisions, or emerging barriers.

• Gather and analyze business, operational, financial, adoption, and customer information needed to support recommendations.
• Coordinate baseline metric collection and help define value hypotheses, KPIs, success measures, and practical methods for benefits tracking.
• Track adoption, benefits, and business outcomes for selected implemented solutions and support consistent value-realization reporting.
• Use Excel, Power BI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and other approved tools to organize information and…