Your Job
We are looking for a talented and experienced Business Architect to join our Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products IT organization. As a Business Architect, you will be responsible for understanding business processes and needs, identifying opportunities, and translating these into IT strategies and roadmaps to increase our competitive advantage. In this role you will be a trusted IT partner working closely with senior IT and business leaders.
Our Team
Georgia-Pacific (GP) is among the world's leading manufacturers of bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, office papers, cellulose, specialty fibers, nonwoven fabrics, building products and related chemicals. Georgia-Pacific creates long-term value by using resources efficiently to provide innovative products and solutions that meet the needs of customers and society, while operating in a manner that is environmentally and socially responsible, and economically sound. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific employs more than 30,000 people at approximately 300 locations in North and South America.
What You Will Do
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs, translate them into technology solutions that create value for the customer and deliver business outcomes
- Analyze the current state of the business and identify gaps, issues, and opportunities for improvement that can provide differentiated and advantaged capabilities to improve business competitiveness
- Bring forward specific technology opportunities to support the business needs and strategies
- Participate in the development and execution of the IT strategy
- Advance ideas to viability that can then be executed to scale where profitable
- Provide input to product and enterprise roadmaps. Assess project proposals for business architecture impacts in alignment with strategy and enterprise architecture
- Support business strategy development, identify new business capability and technology-driven opportunities and ensure alignment of IT strategy. Define business and operating models to exploit new opportunities and realize strategic goals and objectives
- Participate in architectural reviews and represent business architecture in briefings to the Architecture Review Board
- Generating business capability maps, value streams, information architectures, process models, data models, system diagrams, roadmaps, transition plans, and risk assessments
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- At least 5 years of experience in IT Business Architecture or related discipline
- Ability to analyze and assess the current state of a business, business processes and IT solutions, and identify opportunities for improvement
- Experience working with business leaders and IT teams to align business strategies and technology solutions
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Understanding of business strategy, operations, and IT systems
- Understanding of enterprise architecture and how it can be used to align business and IT goal
- Experience with business architecture tools
- Knowledge of the Consumer Products Industry
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field
- Experience and knowledge of SAP S/4
- Business architecture certification, CBA or similar certification
- Experience with the BIZBOK framework and methods
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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf
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