About this role
<p style="margin-bottom:11.0px"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><strong>Annual Wage Range:</strong> $91,491.20 - $125,800.40 <br><strong>Other Compensation: </strong>Eligibility for the Short-Term Incentive program and other applicable bonuses <br><strong>Benefits:</strong> </span><a style="color:#0563c1;text-decoration:underline" href="https://grace.com/people-and-careers/benefits/us-employee-benefits-summary/"><span style="color:#000000">U.S. Employee Benefits Summary (grace.com)</span></a><span style="color:#000000"> </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Grace, a Standard Industries company, is a leading global supplier of catalysts, engineered materials and fine chemicals. We provide innovative products, technologies and services which our customers use to manufacture everyday products like renewable fuels, pharmaceuticals, toothpaste, cosmetics, food packaging, beer, edible oils and more. Our thousands of employees help shape a better future at our global headquarters in Columbia, MD and locations worldwide.</span></p><div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Description</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Grace is seeking a Digital Strategy Analyst<em> </em>to join our IT<em> </em>team! This role reports to VP, Data, AI and Digital organization located at our headquarters in Columbia, MD<em>.</em></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">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.</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Responsibilities (1 of 2)</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><strong>Digital / AI Initiative Cataloging & Valuation<br><br></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Assist with building and creation of a process for maintaining a comprehensive inventory of digital, data, analytics, and AI initiatives across Grace</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">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</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Produce executive-ready dashboards and summaries to assist in management of digital portfolio (demand, value/health, costs, etc)</span><br><br></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><strong>Development of 3-Year AI Strategy & Roadmap</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><strong> </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Provide key inputs to 3‑year AI strategy aligned to business objectives / operational priorities</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Identify and document AI use cases across functions to establish portfolio and prioritization processes</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Translate strategy elements into a clear roadmap inputs: initiatives, milestones, dependencies, required platforms/data investments, and change management needs</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Generate executive communications on strategy, timing, key decision points, and benefits</span></li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Responsibilities (2 of 2)</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><strong>Finance Data Modernization</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><strong> </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Work closely with finance organization to identify, analyze, and document business process improvement opportunities / requirements and design data and analytics solutions to drive value</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Define self-service reporting patterns and trains end users on data product usage</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Supports the broader program manager with status reporting, milestone tracking, and dependency identification across the finance data workstream</span></li> </ul> <p><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><strong>Alignment of Data & Analytics Supply / Demand to IT Operating Model & Business Strategies</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">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)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Evaluation and selection of appropriate delivery organization model (e.g. hub-and-spoke)</span></li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Required Qualifications</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Data/Analytics, Engineering, or related field</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">2-4 years of experience as a Business Analyst, Strategy Analyst, Financial Analyst, or similar role</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Demonstrated experience with strategic thinking, structured problem solving / hypothesis-driven analysis and translating findings into visions / strategies</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Demonstrated experience assisting with building roadmaps, supporting portfolio governance, and developing business cases to support execution of digital visions / strategies</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Experience working with data, analytics, or AI initiatives, especially use case intake, data readiness, governance, and value tracking</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Experience in matrixed environments with senior stakeholders across business and IT</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:azure"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:white;background-color:azure">#LI -TC1</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:white;background-color:azure"> </span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p> </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Preferred Qualifications</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Experience with manufacturing industries (especially chemicals)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Experience with corporate finance processes for manufacturing</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Exposure to / experience with implementing data governance programs.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Familiarity with responsible AI, model risk, privacy, and security considerations</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Consulting background or strong executive storytelling experience</span></li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Benefits</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Life Insurance and Disability</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Grace Wellness Program</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Flexible Workplace with maximum overlap with the core hours</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Retirement Plans </span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">401(k) Company Match</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Paid Vacation and Holidays</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Parental Leave</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Tuition Reimbursement</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Company Donation Match Program</span></li> </ul></div></div></div><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Grace is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Grace via email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Grace. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Grace as a result of the referral or through other means.</span></span></span></p>