Business Analyst (2027 New College Graduate)

About GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries (GF) is a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, enabling AI at scale from the cloud to the physical world. Through deep partnerships with customers, GF delivers differentiated, power-efficient, and high-performance solutions for high-growth markets. GF is a trusted and holistic technology partner for customers around the world. GF’s talented, global team remains focused every day on security, longevity, and sustainability.

New College Graduates Overview

GF offers full-time employment paths for recent graduates, providing accelerated training in a fast-paced work environment, cross-functional working opportunities, and talent mobility. New college graduates are provided with mentorship, networking, and leadership opportunities.

Summary Of Role

The Business Analyst supports GF’s Commercial Transformation – Partner Excellence program by improving partner processes, performance, and governance. Working with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders, the analyst turns complex business challenges into practical solutions with clear ownership, responsibilities, and measures of success.

Essential Responsibilities Include

• Design and document business and operating processes that remove bottlenecks and drive automation across the partner motion, including current-state mapping, target-state design, and transition planning.
• Support GF’s customer coverage approach by helping pair customers with the optimal sales and service model.
• Support Sales in partner business reviews by providing performance insights, market and operational intelligence, and data-driven recommendations.
• Identify process and system gaps and work with cross-functional teams to simplify workflows and improve process efficiency.
• Facilitate funnel and partner performance reviews by preparing analysis, framing decisions, capturing actions, and driving them to closure.
• Automate recurring reporting and manual commercial workflows using low-code and AI-assisted tools.
• Prepare clear written summaries, process documentation, and recommendations for senior commercial leadership.

Other Responsibilities

• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Business Analytics, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Economics, or related field from an accredited degree program.
• Must have at least an overall 3.0 GPA and proven good academic standing.
• Language Fluency: English (Written & Verbal).
• Travel: Up to 10%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior related internship or co-op experience.
• Demonstrated prior leadership experience in the workplace, school projects, competitions, etc.
• Strong interest in leveraging AI tools and emerging technologies to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support effective decision-making.
• Project management skills, i.e., the ability to innovate and execute solutions that matter; the ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong planning & organizational skills.
• Detail-oriented and highly organized, with the ability to document complex process designs precisely.
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and willingness to investigate how processes work.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize across several workstreams and stakeholder groups.
• Critical thinking skills to structure ambiguous cross-functional problems, test assumptions with data, and recommend a path forward.
• Exposure to process mapping and business analysis methods through coursework, a case competition, an internship, or a co-op.
• Familiarity with CRM concepts and Microsoft Power Platform, Power BI, SQL, or Python is an advantage.