Business Analyst

Bringing our love of food to families for five generations! Blount Fine Foods is a family-owned and operated manufacturer, marketer, and developer of premium fresh prepared foods. We are an engaging team, bringing restaurant-quality products to America including single-serve grab-n-go fresh soups, mac & cheese, and entrées in grocery stores across the country, as well as for hot bars and restaurants.

Help us create the finest food experiences including those with specialty certifications that include organic, gluten-free, and low sodium, among others. Join a proven team for growth, success, and a satisfying career!

As a Business Systems Analyst I (BSA I) at Blount Fine Foods, you will serve as a systems steward for an assigned set of Enterprise Applications, primarily SaaS tools that drive critical, integrated processes across Sales & Finance, Manufacturing & Quality, and Supply Chain. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Digital Solutions, you will partner with business owners to keep these applications current, well-documented, and growing in value by tracking vendor releases and roadmaps, assessing change impact, defining system requirements, and identifying capability and integration opportunities.

The BSA brings the technology and systems perspective that enables, integrates, and evolves key business processes. At the I level, you will work under the guidance of Digital Solutions leadership and senior analysts while building toward independent stewardship of assigned platforms.

• Develop a deep understanding of assigned Enterprise Applications, including their functionality, configuration, integrations, and data flows.
• Help maintain a rolling platform roadmap and lifecycle plan for each assigned application, aligned with business priorities and vendor direction.
• Identify capabilities Blount already owns but does not yet use, and bring them forward as opportunities for business owner review.
• Release and Change Management:
• Monitor vendor release notes, upgrade schedules, and deprecation notices, and maintain the release and change-impact calendar for assigned applications.
• Assess the impact of upcoming releases on Blount’s configuration and coordinate regression testing with business users before changes take effect.
• Serve as the day-to-day technical contact for vendors of assigned Enterprise Applications, covering product roadmap, support cases, technical escalations, and release impact.
• Participate in recurring vendor roadmap and service reviews, and provide technical input to budget owners on license, module, and renewal decisions.
• Systems Analysis and Requirements:
• Use business-provided current-state process information to evaluate system, data, integration, and control implications, and raise gaps that create solution risk.
• Define system, data, integration, configuration, nonfunctional, and testable requirements, including acceptance criteria and traceability.
• Support future-state process design by facilitating technology-enabled options and recommending capability, automation, data, and integration approaches for business owner approval.
• Integration and Portfolio Insight:
• Identify integration opportunities, dependencies, and cross-platform impacts, and help shape proposals into governed project intake.
• Flag redundancy, technical debt, lifecycle risk, and consolidation opportunities across assigned applications.
• Configuration and Documentation:
• Make configuration changes to assigned applications within approved configuration standards and business requirements.
• Maintain system documentation, including integrations, data flows, configuration guardrails, known risks, and change history.
• Support and Operational Readiness:
• Provide application support for assigned Enterprise Applications and…