Enterprise Business Analyst

Location: Montreal

Who we are
Gildan is a leading manufacturer of everyday basic apparel, with a strong portfolio of brands, including Gildan, Hanes, Comfort Colors, American Apparel, ALLPRO, GOLDTOE, Peds, Bali, Playtex, Maidenform, Bonds, as well as Champion which is under an exclusive licensing agreement for the printwear channel in the U.S. and Canada.

Gildan owns and operates vertically integrated, large-scale manufacturing facilities which are primarily located in Central America, the Caribbean, North America, and Asia. Gildan operates with a strong commitment to industry-leading labour, environmental and governance practices throughout its supply chain in accordance with its comprehensive ESG program embedded in Gildan's long-term business strategy. Together with our global team of dedicated employees, Gildan is united in its vision of Making Apparel Better.

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The opportunity
The Enterprise Business Analyst is a strategic role within the Technology department responsible for connecting business priorities with technology strategy, capability planning, solution definition, and value realization. The role partners with business functions, Technology leadership, enterprise architecture, solution delivery, cybersecurity, data, finance, procurement, and governance teams to translate business goals and function-specific requirements into actionable technology strategies, prioritized initiatives, and measurable business outcomes.

The Enterprise Business Analyst develops a deep understanding of current-state business processes, pain points, data dependencies, systems, operating models, and emerging opportunities, then converts that insight into practical technology roadmaps, business cases, requirements, and execution-ready recommendations.

The role

Strategic business partnership:
Build trusted partnerships with business function leaders to understand strategic objectives, operational priorities, business challenges, growth opportunities, and decision-making needs.

Technology roadmap development:
Lead the development and ongoing refinement of future-state technology roadmaps aligned to enterprise strategy, business capability requirements, modernization goals, risk reduction, and value creation opportunities.

Current-state assessment:
Analyze and assess business processes, system landscapes, data flows, reporting needs, integrations, pain points, operating models, and manual workarounds to identify gaps, redundancies, risks, and improvement opportunities.

Business capability planning:
Translate business objectives into capability maps, future-state process needs, enabling technology capabilities, data requirements, integration dependencies, and implementation sequencing.

Initiative shaping and prioritization:
Shape and prioritize technology initiatives, enhancement opportunities, automation solutions, analytics capabilities, workflow improvements, and transformation recommendations aligned with business priorities.

Business case development:
Develop value-based business cases that define problem statements, expected benefits, cost considerations, risks, dependencies, options, tradeoffs, and measurable success criteria.

Innovation enablement:
Evaluate emerging technologies, automation, analytics, artificial intelligence, workflow modernization, and new ways of working that may improve productivity, scalability, resilience, decision-making, or customer experience to identify opportunities.

Cross-functional alignment:
Collaborate with enterprise architecture, solution delivery, cybersecurity, data, procurement, finance, legal, and governance teams to ensure proposed solutions are feasible, secure, compliant, scalable, and aligned to enterprise standards.

Executive communication:
Synthesize complex business and technology information into executive-ready materials, roadmap views, and recommendations that support decision-making and clearly communicate priorities, options, dependencies, risks, trade-offs, resource considerations, and expected business value.

Value realization:
Establish success measures, key performance indicators, benefit hypotheses, adoption measures, and benefit realization plans for roadmap initiatives and operational improvements.

Change and adoption planning:
Identify business readiness needs, change impacts, stakeholder impacts, training implications, adoption risks, and communication needs to support successful implementation.

Develop and refine future-state technology…