Project Manager & Senior Analyst

Pinnacle Propane Express (PPE), a division of JP Energy Partners is 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.

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

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

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

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