Wholesale Project Associate Analyst - GROWMARK, Inc. - Bloomington, IL

SALARY RANGE: $69,100.00 - $95,050.00

 

GROWMARK is an agricultural cooperative serving almost 400,000 customers across North America, providing agronomy, energy, facility engineering and construction, and logistics products and services, as well as grain marketing and risk management services. Headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, GROWMARK owns the FS trademark, which is used by its member cooperatives. GROWMARK also owns and operates SEEDWAY, the largest full-line seed company in the United States. More information is available at growmark.com.

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PURPOSE AND SUMMARY STATEMENT

Helps align enterprise business strategies with its technology and processes by analyzing business operations while coordinating recommended solutions to align individual business functions with organizational goals.

 

Assists in developing project estimates by helping identifying phases and elements, personnel requirements, and costs. May assist in creating end-user documentation (e.g., user guides, process flow charts, training materials) and deliver training.

 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Understands business change needs; help analyze business impact of those changes, capturing, analyzing, and documenting requirements and supporting the communication and delivery of requirements with appropriate stakeholders.

 

Assists with the business case, eliciting requirements, translating, and simplifying requirements, and using requirements to drive the design or review of test cases, process change requests, and help manage a project's scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment.

 

Compiles, analyzes, and interprets data related to the current and future operation.

 

Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to understand available technology and anticipate how tools interact with existing enterprise systems to create customer/vendor value.

 

Clarifies, troubleshoots, updates, and improves the business processes impacted by technology changes, and maps out the requirements for one or more systems to support needs and processes.

 

Assist with strategic initiatives for optimizing business performance by enhancing the alignment between business processes and information technology.  Determines how information technologies can support reengineering business processes. 

 

Implements change management efforts around new technologies and changes to existing technologies and processes to minimize disruption and maximize and accelerate value and impact.

 

Engages in research efforts to explore and evaluate new technologies and business practices to support the future strategy and growth of the organization.

 

Assists with development and help drive value stream mapping (VSM) and VSM continuous improvement roadmaps and action plans and create standard processes throughout the wholesale divisions.

 

Assist in developing key operational metrics to measure overall division and organizational performance.

 

Partner with teams to identify potential process improvement projects, assess gaps, and develop gap closure plans.

 

OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS

 

Assists in the evaluation of new software, associated hardware, and services to be offered to end users.

 

Helps encourage, support, and promote innovative practices, ideas, and technologies.

 

Follows GROWMARK's Code of Conduct and Corporate Compliance Program, Environmental Health and Safety, OSHA, and DOT policies and procedures, as they apply.

 

Performs other duties or special projects as assigned.

 

REQUIREMENTS

Normally requires a college degree, and 3 years or more of GROWMARK process-related experience to demonstrate the ability to provide business process and technology leadership to the GROWMARK System.

 

Proficient at clearly defining, analyzing, and resolving problems and process weaknesses and then applying a formal root cause corrective action methodology.

 

Demonstrated planning, organization, analytical, diagnostic, problem-solving, and project management skills.

 

Demonstrates essential a