901 Warrenville Rd Lisle, IL 60532 United States
ABOUT PALMER
Founded by construction leaders within Power Construction, Palmer is a professional services consulting firm helping organizations integrate people, processes, data, and technology to drive measurable business outcomes. Palmer operates as a dedicated consulting group serving contractors across the industry, delivering business process improvement, data analytics, ERP optimization, and systems integration solutions.
Position Summary
The Senior Business Analyst I owns end-to-end workstreams for construction clients, driving performance improvements through business analysis, data analysis, systems implementation, and process optimization while leading requirements, testing/UAT, and executive-ready recommendations to align stakeholders and deliver measurable outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
• Assess current-state construction workflows and document process maps to identify efficiency and control gaps.
• Elicit, define, and maintain requirements (user stories/use cases, acceptance criteria) and secure stakeholder sign-off.
• Plan and execute system testing and UAT (test scripts, defect triage, go/no-go readiness) for ERP, integrations, and data solutions.
• Perform root-cause analysis and deliver prioritized recommendations with implementation steps, effort, and expected impact.
• Drive day-to-day delivery by owning scope tracking, risk/issue/dependency tracking, and weekly status updates aligned to client outcomes.
• Facilitate working sessions and decision meetings by framing options, tradeoffs, and recommendations, and capture action items, owners, and timelines to keep stakeholders aligned.
• Produce dashboards and recurring reports with clear definitions and insights that enable operational and executive decision-making.
Position Requirements
• 7+ years in business analysis and/or consulting roles delivering process and system change.
• Demonstrated ability to define future state processes and operating models, build business cases/value realization, and prioritization/roadmapping.
• Client-facing experience facilitating workshops and translating business needs into clear inputs for delivery/technical teams.
• Experience supporting system and process implementations, including test planning/execution and UAT coordination.
• Demonstrated workstream leadership in complex, multi-stakeholder engagements.
• Experience supporting construction operations or construction technology, including construction ERP or PMIS platforms (e.g., CMiC, Viewpoint Vista, Sage, Procore).
• Experience owning consulting engagement activities (e.g., scope, assumptions, estimates, and delivery plans) managing scope change, and supporting the client relationship.
• Experience coaching junior analysts or leading small workstreams is preferred.
• Working knowledge of BI or data tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, SQL) to define metrics and deliver actionable dashboards.
Compensation
Salary Range: $130,000–$150,000
Power Construction is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. Power Construction is committed to increasing opportunities for historically disadvantaged workers (including women and members of disproportionately affected racial and ethnic groups), as well as residents of marginalized communities.
