Project Manager & Senior Analyst

JP Energy Partners; Gurnee (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy provider is seeking a Senior Analyst & Project Manager to improve business and IT processes within their division. This role demands strong analytical and project management skills, with responsibilities including project management of new initiatives, requirement gathering, and stakeholder presentations. The successful candidate will also build relationships in both business and IT, create performance reports, and support substantial software implementations. This is an opportunity to drive positive change in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for analyzing and evaluating business requirements of varying complexity.
• Proven experience in building business case justifications.
• Strong organizational and project management skills to meet objectives and deadlines.
• Ability to build relationships within both business and IT.

Responsibilities

• Lead major account roll out/in’s.
• Manage large-scale software implementations.
• Gather end-user requirements and conduct analysis.
• Present and obtain stakeholder approvals.
• Create and maintain performance reports for management.

Skills

Project Management

Analytical skills

Problem-solving abilities

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Job description

Pinnacle Propane Express (PPE), a division of JP Energy Partnersis a full service provider of propane grill cylinders for exchange for retailers and/or distributors. PPE has production facilities, districts, and depots in its marketing areas that refurbish, deliver, and distribute to the retailer. In addition to propane cylinders, PPE provides services such as quality storage cabinets, safety protection, safety and marketing training, and unique marketing branding enabling the retailer to provide point of purchase sales of both exchange and new propane grill cylinders. Currently, PPE services 43 states.

Job Description

SCOPE OF POSITION:

• The Senior Analyst & Project Manager position is responsible for support and improvement of key business and IT processes within PPE. This position provides technical and functional expertise in the areas of defining business requirements for improvements, project management of new initiatives and support for these new initiatives. In addition this position helps define the business cases for each of the new initiatives

Responsibilities

• Project Management
• Lead major account roll out/in’s
• Large-scale software implementations
• Process Improvements
• Analysis
• Develop, product, and analyze reports as requested from operations team
• Process Improvements
• Requirement gathering, conduct end-user interviews, analysis
• Root cause analysis and solutions
• Present and obtain stakeholder approvals
• Performance, efficiency, and cost analysis
• District & customer level forecasting for the purposes of demand planning

Qualifications

• POSITION REQUIREMENTS & RESPONSIBILITIES
• Leads design reviews, develops recommendations for how to improve or redesign relevant software tools to meet the business needs of the company.
• Analyze and understand a new business requirement and translate back to IT &/or operations to deliver solution.
• Great attitude that always exudes a “can do” approach
• Proven ability to build relationships within both business and IT
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for analyzing and evaluating business requirements of varying complexity to determine appropriate solution
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to meet objectives and deadlines
• Proven experience building business case justifications and tracking the actual results
• Document workflows of various PPE departments and functions
• Business end-user requirement gathering
• Define and identify key performance indicators and performance metrics for senior management
• Create and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly performance reports
• Create Adhoc reports for the Sales, Operations, and Routing departments