Heidelberg Materials US, Inc.
Business Analyst - Digital
Heidelberg Materials US, Inc., Garland, Texas, us, 75049
AutoReqId: 20975BR
Pay Class: Salaried Exempt
Minimum Pay Rate: $115,120.00
Maximum Pay Rate: $158,290.00
Department: Finance
Line of Business: Corporate Administration (SSC, IT, Employee Services, Etc.)
Position Type: Full-Time
Job Posting:
The Role and the Company
We’re Heidelberg Materials. Our products build cities and towns, including stadiums that hold thousands of fans, and bridges that support millions of vehicles. We have nearly 9,000 employees across 450 locations in the U.S. and Canada, making us North America’s leading supplier of cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, asphalt, and related construction materials.
As a member of a new style of team, you will be “the first of your kind” to work in a highly collaborative and high-empowerment set-up to deliver a value-centric digital solution alongside our industry software partners. This role reports directly to a new-to-hire Digital Manager who will follow leadership principles to foster an environment that maximizes your strengths and promotes collaboration, adaptability, and continuous improvement. The digital solution you will work on is in the domain of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and automating the data used to produce them from taking months to minutes to benefit our customers in the construction industry.
EPDs are emerging as a universal, credible tool driving environmental transparency in the construction sector. You and your teammates will be expected to deliver value across three areas of this digital solution (1) EPD standards and requirements gathering and capturing (2) data identification and collection including embedding the processes to standardize, collect, and automate the data and enabling our systems and business to follow the standard (3) data availability including testing and quality assurance for API endpoints to be consumed successfully by our industry software partners. The scope will also span our three core product lines of cement, aggregates, and ready-mix concrete.
This team will evolve to lead the next phases of the EPD Automation product as business need and market demand start to accelerate. This role will also be part of our succession plan to build more digital solutions within Heidelberg Materials either in the quality and sustainability space and/or other key areas for the digital strategy on the horizon in future years to come (e.g., logistics, automation, etc.)
What You'll Get to Do?
Join a team that works productively using agile software development processes, rituals, and disciplines as they work through tasks on their backlog, including business analysis, design, development, testing, and technical and business process documentation.
Participate in time-boxed orientation sprints typically lasting 1-2 weeks and join in sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives to make continuous improvements to your team‘s ways of working. The team may also use various tools and practices to support their work, such as Jira for tracking progress, Confluence for documentation, and Kanban boards for visualizing workflow. The goal is to maintain a sustainable pace of work, adapt to changes quickly, and deliver incremental value to stakeholders regularly.
Participate and collaborate closely with software partners in our industry and Regional Operations teams to standardize our business processes both procedurally inside the operations and technically within our landscape, so software partners can consume the data at a high level of quality, speed, and satisfaction for the next phase of the EPD automation product
Responsible to benchmark, translate, and document the NAM standards for data labeling, collecting, and automating data points with the support of LCA experts and quality and operations experts across the various systems and offline locations containing data on water usage, electricity usage, transportation impacts, fuel usage, waste, material, plant, production, and other kinds of items pertinent to EPD creation and accuracy
More details will come as the team forms and they get to benchmark how other countries within Heidelberg Materials have done similar work in the EPD space; so having a learning and listening attitude and approach will also be a key to success
Essential Experience and Skills
Four or more years of professional experience in business analysis, process design, and systems development and deployments
Experience in generating clear-to-consume process documentation and standards
Excellent communication skills, with an ability to translate data into actionable insights and any technical jargon into business-facing guidance and directions
Preferred Skills
Advanced degree in IT, computer science, business administration, or a related field is often preferred.
Proven ability to manage projects, requirements, deliverables and user testing
Experience or interest in the heavy building materials industry is a strong plus.
Experience with cross-functional relationship management and working to influence others/bring them along.
What we have to offer
Competitive base salary
Highly competitive benefits programs
401k retirement savings plan with an automatic company contribution as well as matching contributions
Hybrid work environment
Employer Statement: Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority / Female / Veteran / Disabled
Pay Class: Salaried Exempt
Minimum Pay Rate: $115,120.00
Maximum Pay Rate: $158,290.00
Department: Finance
Line of Business: Corporate Administration (SSC, IT, Employee Services, Etc.)
Position Type: Full-Time
Job Posting:
The Role and the Company
We’re Heidelberg Materials. Our products build cities and towns, including stadiums that hold thousands of fans, and bridges that support millions of vehicles. We have nearly 9,000 employees across 450 locations in the U.S. and Canada, making us North America’s leading supplier of cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, asphalt, and related construction materials.
As a member of a new style of team, you will be “the first of your kind” to work in a highly collaborative and high-empowerment set-up to deliver a value-centric digital solution alongside our industry software partners. This role reports directly to a new-to-hire Digital Manager who will follow leadership principles to foster an environment that maximizes your strengths and promotes collaboration, adaptability, and continuous improvement. The digital solution you will work on is in the domain of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and automating the data used to produce them from taking months to minutes to benefit our customers in the construction industry.
EPDs are emerging as a universal, credible tool driving environmental transparency in the construction sector. You and your teammates will be expected to deliver value across three areas of this digital solution (1) EPD standards and requirements gathering and capturing (2) data identification and collection including embedding the processes to standardize, collect, and automate the data and enabling our systems and business to follow the standard (3) data availability including testing and quality assurance for API endpoints to be consumed successfully by our industry software partners. The scope will also span our three core product lines of cement, aggregates, and ready-mix concrete.
This team will evolve to lead the next phases of the EPD Automation product as business need and market demand start to accelerate. This role will also be part of our succession plan to build more digital solutions within Heidelberg Materials either in the quality and sustainability space and/or other key areas for the digital strategy on the horizon in future years to come (e.g., logistics, automation, etc.)
What You'll Get to Do?
Join a team that works productively using agile software development processes, rituals, and disciplines as they work through tasks on their backlog, including business analysis, design, development, testing, and technical and business process documentation.
Participate in time-boxed orientation sprints typically lasting 1-2 weeks and join in sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives to make continuous improvements to your team‘s ways of working. The team may also use various tools and practices to support their work, such as Jira for tracking progress, Confluence for documentation, and Kanban boards for visualizing workflow. The goal is to maintain a sustainable pace of work, adapt to changes quickly, and deliver incremental value to stakeholders regularly.
Participate and collaborate closely with software partners in our industry and Regional Operations teams to standardize our business processes both procedurally inside the operations and technically within our landscape, so software partners can consume the data at a high level of quality, speed, and satisfaction for the next phase of the EPD automation product
Responsible to benchmark, translate, and document the NAM standards for data labeling, collecting, and automating data points with the support of LCA experts and quality and operations experts across the various systems and offline locations containing data on water usage, electricity usage, transportation impacts, fuel usage, waste, material, plant, production, and other kinds of items pertinent to EPD creation and accuracy
More details will come as the team forms and they get to benchmark how other countries within Heidelberg Materials have done similar work in the EPD space; so having a learning and listening attitude and approach will also be a key to success
Essential Experience and Skills
Four or more years of professional experience in business analysis, process design, and systems development and deployments
Experience in generating clear-to-consume process documentation and standards
Excellent communication skills, with an ability to translate data into actionable insights and any technical jargon into business-facing guidance and directions
Preferred Skills
Advanced degree in IT, computer science, business administration, or a related field is often preferred.
Proven ability to manage projects, requirements, deliverables and user testing
Experience or interest in the heavy building materials industry is a strong plus.
Experience with cross-functional relationship management and working to influence others/bring them along.
What we have to offer
Competitive base salary
Highly competitive benefits programs
401k retirement savings plan with an automatic company contribution as well as matching contributions
Hybrid work environment
Employer Statement: Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority / Female / Veteran / Disabled