Job Title:  AI Business Analyst

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people – and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the preeminent wine and spirits distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

Southern Glazer’s is proud of its well-earned positive reputation, continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued, supported, and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

The AI Business Analyst is responsible for engaging with clients, internal stakeholders, and the technical community to capture business processes and ensure the development of effective AI and automation solutions. AI Business Analysts gather requirements through workshops, meetings, and surveys, serving as the main contact for questions about how services, products, or applications support business activities. Using systems analysis models, AI Business Analysts define business rules, develop specifications and diagrams for development teams, and recommend changes to existing solutions. By understanding the business journey and communicating trends to agile teams, AI Business Analysts support implementation, testing, and quality efforts, contributing to the organization's success

Primary Responsibilities

• Work with service/product and technical teams to understand and define system goals and business requirements.
• Document and translate department/business requirements into requirements specification document.
• Create requirements specification document and processes using structured analysis and data modeling techniques (e.g., activity diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams).
• Collaborates in building system functionality and quality attributes.
• Assist technical groups in revising logic for performance efficiency.
• Develop new ideas to automate and decrease overall system deployment and support cycle time.
• Participate in system and user acceptance testing efforts.
• Create initial build of standards, processes and procedures, and guidelines for analysts, service/product owners and developers.
• Assist BRM/Service/Product Owners/Managers in evaluating cost-benefit and ROI analyses.
• Understand system interdependencies and collaborates with service/product teams accordingly.
• Manage the work of development teams including the DevOps board, and at times facilitate Agile and Scrum activities and configure applications.
• Capture and analyze business processes to develop and support effective solutions, aligning client needs with technical capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, etc.) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 2+ years’ relevant work experience in an analytical capacity, or equivalent experience.
• Native-level proficiency/fluent in English.
• Experience in DevOps and Agile technology environments (preferred).

Physical Demands

• Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time may include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or mobile device
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

If you have any questions or concerns about whether this posting complies/adheres with local pay transparency requirements, please contact the SGWS talent acquisition team at NationalTA@sgws.com