AI & Business Transformation Analyst

Build Your Career as a 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. The role combines structured problem solving, business analysis, process mapping, AI-enabled opportunity assessment, initiative coordination, portfolio support, and executive-ready communication.

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription
• 401(k) with company match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Life Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and 8 Company Holidays
• Career Growth:
  Opportunity to develop and advance your career with a leading building products distributor.

This position is intended to be a force multiplier, enabling the function to provide enterprise insight and thought leadership while maintaining disciplined follow-through on selected priorities. The analyst will help translate ambiguous business needs and emerging AI capabilities into clear problem statements, process views, analyses, recommendations, decisions, actions, and measurable next steps.

• 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 can support opportunity evaluation, solution design, adoption, and transition.
• Maintain a current inventory of AI, innovation, and business transformation opportunities and selected in-flight initiatives.
• Gather the minimum information needed to evaluate an opportunity, including the business problem, intended outcome, sponsor, owner, value hypothesis, readiness, dependencies, and capacity needs.
• Support consistent opportunity evaluation using defined enterprise value, strategic alignment, speed, readiness, confidence, complexity, and resource criteria.
• Prepare working summaries that distinguish immediate focus from the broader opportunity backlog.
• Help keep opportunity, initiative, decision, risk, dependency, and value information accurate and ready for leadership discussion.
• 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-ups across business, technology, data, external partners, and other stakeholders.
• Prepare concise status views focused on progress, expected impact, barriers, and decisions needed.
• Escalate incomplete information, stalled decisions, or emerging barriers promptly rather than allowing issues to remain hidden.
• Gather and analyze business, operational, financial, adoption, and customer information needed to support recommendations.
• Help develop baseline measures, value hypotheses, success metrics, and practical methods for tracking realized value.
• Use Excel, Power BI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and other approved tools to organize information and create decision-useful insights.
• Validate data definitions, assumptions, and sources with the appropriate business and technical owners.
• Translate complex information into clear business language for leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Prepare meeting materials, summaries, action logs, decision records, and executive-ready…