Value Plus Business IT Sr Analyst

SSAB; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SSAB Americas seeks a Business IT Senior Analyst to bridge Value+ with IT, aligning technology with strategic goals, productivity, and growth. You will work across operations, sales, finance, and supply chain to implement digital solutions, improve reporting, and drive continuous improvement.

The role requires deep knowledge of ERP, analytics, and manufacturing processes, with responsibility for project management, system enhancements, and change management across SSAB platforms.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree from a college or university.
• 7 years’ experience in a Business Analysis or similar role in steel related businesses.
• Expertise in business processes and e-commerce solutions.
• Proven track record of developing and implementing business solutions to drive ROI.
• Tableau, Power BI, and/or analytics knowledge.
• ERP solutions experience and software selection experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary IT and business systems liaison for Value+.
• Support ERP systems, MES, production planning tools, and related applications.
• Lead change management activities and coordinate requirements with stakeholders.
• Develop project plans, timelines, budgets and resource requirements.
• Monitor project risks, issues and mitigation plans; provide status reports to leadership.
• Champion CPMS process for project management and partner with Project Management Team.

Skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder communication

Presentations (PowerPoint)

Requirements gathering

Functional specifications

Business applications knowledge

Education

Four-year degree

MBA

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Analytics tools

Job description

POSITION PURPOSE

The Business IT Senior Analyst serves as the primary liaison between the Value+ business and IT, ensuring that technology solutions support strategic business objectives, operational excellence, and profitable growth.

Job Description

The Business IT Senior Analyst serves as the primary liaison between the Value+ business and IT, ensuring that technology solutions support strategic business objectives, operational excellence, and profitable growth. This position combines expertise in manufacturing business processes, ERP systems, digitalization initiatives, data analytics, and project management to identify, implement, and support solutions that improve productivity, customer experience, profitability, and decision-making throughout the Value+ organization. The Business IT Senior Analyst partners with operations, sales, finance, supply chain, and IT teams to drive continuous improvement, optimize business processes, support system enhancements, and lead technology-related projects. The role also serves as a key resource in reporting, business intelligence, software evaluations, and digital transformation initiatives.

Essential Functions

Business Impact

• Act as the primary IT and business systems liaison for Value+.
• Support business growth initiatives through implementation and enhancement of digital solutions, ERP capabilities, reporting tools, and customer-facing technologies.
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability, service levels, throughput, and productivity through technology and process improvements.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that support strategic objectives.
• Support system integrations across ERP, CRM, production scheduling, nesting, and financial systems.
• Develop a deep understanding of SSAB business processes, policies, and operational workflows.
• Analyze current-state processes and recommend future-state improvements.
• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and system requirements.
• Ensure alignment between business objectives and technical solutions.
• Lead change management activities associated with new systems and process improvements.

Business Process Leadership

Systems and Analytics

• Develop a deep understanding of SSAB business processes, policies, and operational workflows.
• Analyze current-state processes and recommend future-state improvements.
• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and system requirements.
• Ensure alignment between business objectives and technical solutions.
• Lead change management activities associated with new systems and process improvements.
• Act as subject matter expert for assigned business applications and reporting platforms.
• Support ERP systems, manufacturing execution systems, production planning tools, and related applications.
• Champion SSAB’s CPMS process for project management and partner with Project Management Team.
• Develop project plans, timelines, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Coordinate activities among business stakeholders, IT teams, software vendors, and external partners.
• Manage software selection and implementation projects, including vendor evaluation and system deployment.
• Monitor project risks, issues, and mitigation plans.
• Provide regular project status reports to leadership.

Project Management

Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement

Leadership & Teamwork

• Champion SSAB’s CPMS process for project management and partner with Project Management Team.
• Develop project plans, timelines, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Coordinate activities among business stakeholders, IT teams, software vendors, and external partners.
• Manage software selection and implementation projects, including vendor evaluation and system deployment.
• Monitor project risks, issues, and mitigation plans. Provide regular project status reports to leadership
• Recommend standardized solutions that balance process efficiency and technology capability.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives using data and measurable outcomes.
• Take ownership of issues through resolution, regardless of organizational boundaries.
• Build strong working relationships across Operations, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, and IT.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders.
• Mentor users and provide guidance on best practices for utilizing business systems.
• Support organizational change initiatives and digital transformation efforts.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Lead cross-functional project teams without direct supervisory authority.

Communication

• Communicate complex technical concepts in a business-focused manner.
• Develop user documentation, process flows, training materials, and operating procedures.
• Facilitate workshops, project meetings, and stakeholder reviews. Provide regular updates regarding project status, risks, and business impacts

QUALIFICATIONS

Competencies and Experience

• Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Able to make formal presentations to internal or external audiences using PowerPoint (or similar tools)
• Able to provide initial user training including user documentation and training materials for business functional software
• Responsible for providing their manager with weekly status updates as well as escalating issues when necessary
• Able to communicate effectively with non-technical staff, members of interdisciplinary teams, outside customers, and vendors on technical and business topics and issues
• Possess well defined business and functional specifications by working closely with management and end users
• Possess strong applications knowledge
• Education Required: Four-year degree from a college or university
• 7 years’ experience in a Business Analysis or similar role in steel related businesses
• Expertise in the business processes and e-commerce solutions.
• Proven track record of developing and implementing business solutions to drive improvement in ROI in the areas of digitalization, ERP, data visualization
• Excellent communication skills
• 15 years of work experience
• MBA
• Steel plate and cut-to-length experience
• Tableau, Power BI, and/or Analytics knowledge
• Manufacturing experience including nesting software
• ERP solutions experience
• Software Selection experience

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES / DIRECT REPORTS

• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The Employee Is Constantly Required To

• Sit and work at a desk.

The Employee Is Frequently Required To

• Stand and walk, and may alternate sitting and standing as needed.
• Balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb.
• Twist at waist level.
• Reach above shoulder level, at waist/desk level, and below waist/desk level.
• Finger with right hand, left hand, and both hands (fine motor).

The Employee Is Occasionally Required To

• Push, pull, lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds.

The Employee Is Required To

• Talk person to person, on the phone, and in group settings as needed.
• Hear in person, on the phone, and in group settings as needed.
• Possess near, midrange, far, peripheral, and depth perception vision.

POSITION TYPE/EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK/TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• Position is full time, exempt.
• Travel 25% of time in the field and other SSAB locations.
• On call availability for IT and Business Process deployments, critical break/fix issues, and month end processing as required.

OTHER DUTIES

About Us

Becoming part of the SSAB family means joining a journey. A journey that we believe is essential for the sustainability of this planet. Steel has been one of the most important materials for developing our society and it will continue to be so. In the roofs over our heads, in the bridges connecting our cities and in the cars of tomorrow. At SSAB we are proud of our history and leadership in high-strength steel. But we are also aware that the production of steel is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. That has to change. That is why we have developed the world’s first fossil-free steel production and have committed to becoming largely fossil-free. As part of SSAB you will be instrumental in realizing this goal and pushing for the green transformation of the whole steel industry.

About The Team

SSAB Americas is responsible for sales of heavy plate in North America and for steel and plate production in Montpelier, USA.