AI & Business Transformation Analyst

• 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 presentations.
• Support recurring updates for the Director, CEO, ELT, and other leadership forums as requested.
• Consolidate stakeholder input into themes, opportunities, concerns, open questions, and follow-up actions.
• Maintain organized working files and knowledge repositories so decisions and context are easy to retrieve.
• Communicate progress and follow-ups with accuracy, discretion, and appropriate urgency.

• Track relationships and activity with selected universities, suppliers, customers, startups, strategic partners, vendors, and industry organizations.
• Capture useful external insights and connect them to defined BlueLinx business needs and opportunities.
• Assist with meeting preparation, follow-up, capability comparisons, and proof-of-concept documentation.
• Help maintain visibility to emerging AI technologies, vendors, and practical use cases while connecting explorationto defined business needs, responsible-use expectations, and measurable value.

• Bachelor's degree required; fields such as business, analytics, economics, engineering, operations, supply chain, information systems, finance, or a related discipline may be especially relevant.
• Demonstrated structured problem-solving, analytical, communication, and technology capabilities through professional experience, internships, co-ops, academic projects, case competitions, research, or other rigorous applied work. No fixed number of years is required.
• Experience translating ambiguous business needs into structured analysis, recommendations, presentations, or action plans is preferred.
• Experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business transformation, analytics, operations, technology, or another rigorous problem-solving environment is highly valued. Distribution, building products, supply chain, commercial operations, finance, or technology-enabled transformation experience is helpful but not required.

• Breaks ambiguous business questions into clear issues, assumptions, information needs, and next steps.
• Creates clear, accurate process views using Visio, PowerPoint, Lucidchart, or similar tools.
• Uses Excel and basic analytics confidently; Power BI or similar visualization experience is preferred
• Maintains actions, decisions, milestones, risks, dependencies, and follow-up without overcomplicating the work.
• Rapidly learns and responsibly applies approved AI and digital tools to research, analyze, synthesize, automate, prototype, and improve business work.
• Produces concise, accurate, visually clear materials and adapts communication to leadership and working-team audiences.
• Seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, tests assumptions, adapts quickly, and develops new business and technology knowledge with limited direction.
• Builds trust, follows through, handles sensitive information appropriately, and knows when to escalate.
• Frames problems, develops hypotheses, synthesizes evidence, and converts findings into practical recommendations and actions.
• Combines initiative, intellectual curiosity, humility, resilience, and a clear desire to grow through feedback and increasingly complex assignments.