AI & Business Transformation Analyst

BlueLinx • Marietta, GA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

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

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 exploration to defined business needs, responsible-use expectations, and measurable value.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level