Business Analyst; AI Center

Location: St. Louis, MO (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

Duration: 12-Month Contract (Potential for Full-Time Conversion)

About The Position

The Business Analyst – AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE) supports the successful adoption and scaling of artificial intelligence across the company by translating business ideas into clearly defined, decision‑ready AI initiatives. This role serves as a central point of analysis and coordination for business‑driven AI demand, ensuring ideas progress effectively from intake through prioritization and executive decision‑making.

The Senior Business Analyst partners closely with business stakeholders, AI CoE leadership, and the AI Steering Committee (AI Steer Co) to clarify objectives, assess value and readiness, and position AI initiatives to deliver measurable business outcomes. While the role collaborates with governance and compliance partners, its primary focus is business clarity, enablement, momentum, and value realization, rather than enforcement or control.

Key responsibilities include:

• Serves as the primary intake and coordination point for enterprise AI ideas and initiatives, working with business teams to capture objectives, value hypotheses, scope, and readiness.
• Organizes and maintains a transparent enterprise AI intake pipeline that clearly reflects status, ownership, priorities, and next steps
• Supports AI CoE leadership in structuring and preparing prioritization materials based on business value, readiness, dependencies, and strategic alignment
• Maintains the enterprise AI use‑case portfolio, tracking initiative status, sequencing, key milestones, and decision outcomes
• Prepares clear, concise, decision‑ready materials for AI Steering Committee (AI Steer Co) discussions, including summaries of value, progress, risks, and open items
• Facilitates communication between business sponsors, AI CoE leadership, and AI Steer Co to ensure decisions, expectations, and follow‑up actions are clearly understood
• Tracks executive decisions and action items through completion, ensuring outcomes are visible and communicated
• Acts as a central communication hub for enterprise AI activity, providing consistent updates on pipeline health, progress, themes, and emerging issues
• Coordinates with governance, risk, legal, privacy, cybersecurity, and architecture partners to integrate required reviews efficiently into the AI workflow
• Identifies recurring intake, prioritization, and execution challenges and works with AI CoE leadership to continuously improve the operating model
• Supports enterprise adoption of AI by reducing confusion, duplication, and stalled initiatives and by promoting clarity and consistency across teams

Other Skills, Strengths, and Knowledge

• Demonstrated knowledge of artificial intelligence concepts, analytics, and data‑driven solutions, with the ability to assess business applicability, value drivers, and readiness (hands‑on model development not required)
• Strong ability to organize ambiguous ideas into structured, actionable information
• Proven organizational and prioritization skills across competing initiatives and stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive‑ready materials
• Comfort working across business, technical, and governance teams with differing objectives
• A collaborative, facilitative style that builds trust and momentum rather than bureaucracy
• Confidence engaging with senior leaders while maintaining a service‑oriented mindset
• Ability to identify patterns, bottlenecks, and opportunities for continuous improvement