Sr Digital Strategy Analyst

W. R. Grace & Co.•Columbia, MD

2d•$91,491 - $125,800•Hybrid

About The Position

Grace is seeking a Digital Strategy Analyst to join our IT team! This role reports to VP, Data, AI and Digital organization located at our headquarters in Columbia, MD. The Digital Strategy Advisor partners with business and technology leaders to shape, prioritize, and govern a portfolio of digital, data, and AI initiatives. This role combines rigorous analysis, process and best practice creation, and strong stakeholder facilitation/collaboration with a specialized focus on AI strategy, data strategy, initiative valuation, and operating model evolution. Initial focus will be on Grace financial process areas but will expand as digital transformation scales. You will help the new Grace Data, AI, and Digital organization create the initial enterprise-wide vision and strategy for these areas in close collaboration with Grace business and functional stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Data/Analytics, Engineering, or related field
2-4 years of experience as a Business Analyst, Strategy Analyst, Financial Analyst, or similar role
Demonstrated experience with strategic thinking, structured problem solving / hypothesis-driven analysis and translating findings into visions / strategies
Demonstrated experience assisting with building roadmaps, supporting portfolio governance, and developing business cases to support execution of digital visions / strategies
Experience working with data, analytics, or AI initiatives, especially use case intake, data readiness, governance, and value tracking
Experience in matrixed environments with senior stakeholders across business and IT

Nice To Haves

Experience with manufacturing industries (especially chemicals)
Experience with corporate finance processes for manufacturing
Exposure to / experience with implementing data governance programs.
Familiarity with responsible AI, model risk, privacy, and security considerations
Consulting background or strong executive storytelling experience

Responsibilities

Assist with building and creation of a process for maintaining a comprehensive inventory of digital, data, analytics, and AI initiatives across Grace
Align digital / AI intake and assessment frameworks with existing Grace IT operating model, ensuring business cases and value measurement approaches (financial and non-financial), fit with digital / AI initiatives
Produce executive-ready dashboards and summaries to assist in management of digital portfolio (demand, value/health, costs, etc)
Provide key inputs to 3‑year AI strategy aligned to business objectives / operational priorities
Identify and document AI use cases across functions to establish portfolio and prioritization processes
Translate strategy elements into a clear roadmap inputs: initiatives, milestones, dependencies, required platforms/data investments, and change management needs
Generate executive communications on strategy, timing, key decision points, and benefits
Work closely with finance organization to identify, analyze, and document business process improvement opportunities / requirements and design data and analytics solutions to drive value
Define self-service reporting patterns and trains end users on data product usage
Supports the broader program manager with status reporting, milestone tracking, and dependency identification across the finance data workstream
Assess current operating model (including intake-to-delivery processes) for data/analytics/AI work and identify improvements (e.g. roles and responsibilities, data domain ownership/governance, prioritization processes)
Evaluation and selection of appropriate delivery organization model (e.g. hub-and-spoke)