Senior Analyst, Value Creation & AI Transformation

Organization Overview Company Description QAD Inc., owned by leading private equity firm Thoma Bravo, is a provider of cloud-based ERP software and services for global manufacturers. As a Thoma Bravo portfolio company, QAD is executing a focused value creation agenda to accelerate growth, improve operational efficiency, and support the company’s transition toward more AI-enabled ways of working.

The Value Creation team sits at the center of this effort, partnering with executive and functional leaders across Engineering, Product, Sales, Customer Success, Professional Services, Support, Finance, HR, and Legal to translate strategic priorities into measurable initiatives. The team is responsible for helping define the value creation roadmap, standing up governance, tracking execution, measuring benefits, and ensuring high-priority initiatives move from strategy to delivery.

We are looking for a sharp, analytical, and action-oriented Senior Analyst to join the Value Creation team. This person will help drive and orchestrate cross-functional value creation initiatives, with a particular focus on AI transformation, operating model evolution, systems integrator transition, and measurable business impact.

This role will work EMEA hours to align with global business stakeholders.

Job Description Support Enterprise Value Creation Initiatives

• Help translate high-level strategic priorities into specific, measurable initiatives with clear owners, milestones, KPIs, dependencies, and expected business impact.
• Build and maintain initiative trackers, value bridges, KPI dashboards, business cases, and executive reporting materials.
• Partner with functional teams across Engineering, Product, GTM, Support, Professional Services, Customer Success, Finance, HR, and Legal to track progress, identify blockers, and support issue resolution.
• Support regular operating rhythms, including leadership reviews, SteerCo materials, initiative readouts, and follow-ups from executive discussions.
• Conduct analysis to size opportunities, assess benefits, track actual vs. planned impact, and identify areas requiring management attention.

Help Drive QAD’s AI Transformation Agenda

• Support the identification, prioritization, and tracking of AI initiatives across functions, including Engineering productivity, Support diagnostics and resolution, Professional Services automation, GTM productivity, Finance / BI enablement, HR, and Legal.
• Help structure AI use cases into clear problem statements, workflows, data / system requirements, expected outputs, adoption metrics, and business outcomes.
• Define and track AI success metrics, including adoption, usage depth, cycle time reduction, productivity improvement, throughput, quality, backlog reduction, and financial impact.
• Partner with business teams, technical teams, and external vendors to move AI initiatives from concept to pilot to scaled deployment.
• Support executive-level reporting on AI transition progress, including Board / leadership updates, initiative status, benefits realization, risks, and key decisions needed.
• Help establish practical measurement models that link AI usage to operational outcomes, not just activity.

Support Operating Model and SI Transition Work

• Support enterprise operating model workstreams, including current-state diagnostics, future-state design, workflow decomposition, role / responsibility mapping, and implementation planning.
• Help coordinate across internal teams, third-party advisors, and implementation / systems integration partners to ensure continuity between strategy, design, and execution.
• Support the transition from high-level transformation design to detailed L3 / L4 workflow definition, requirements, blueprints, PRDs, and implementation roadmaps.
• Track dependencies, risks, decisions, and follow-ups across internal teams and external partners.
• Help ensure implementation partners are set up with the right context, documentation, governance, and success metrics to execute effectively in later phases.

Build Executive-Ready Analysis and Materials

• Prepare concise, high-quality materials for senior leadership discussions, operating reviews, Board updates, and cross-functional working sessions.
• Synthesize inputs from interviews, data, transcripts, functional plans, and project updates into clear insights and recommended actions.
• Build Excel / Sheets-based analyses, KPI t…