Lean Portfolio Analyst

Wellmark, Inc. • Des Moines, IA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The main focus of this analyst role is to provide analytics support to product health within a portfolio. You will support enterprise capacity planning, lean portfolio management, and value delivery by ingesting, profiling, normalizing, and interpreting data from multiple sources. You will create consumable outputs with summaries of key findings and recommended actions. In addition, you will provide meaningful metrics, insights. and recommendations to Lean Portfolio Consultants and the Lean Portfolio Value Manager to optimize portfolio and product team performance and economic decision making. You will have the opportunity to create analyses, reports, and dashboards to understand and optimize capacity, limit queuing time and improve delivery predictability as well as monitor data quality and own corrective actions to improve data fitness for enterprise consumption.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field or direct and applicable work experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a role leveraging data to provide meaningful insights to others.
• Ability to ingest, profile, normalize and interpret data from multiple sources, creating consumable outputs with summaries of key findings and recommended actions.
• Ability to apply statistical methods or predictive analytics to forecast trends or outcomes to uncover patterns, trends, and anomalies within data.
• Ability to interpret financial, capacity and execution data to make investment recommendations to portfolio leaders, product management, product teams, and agile leaders. Ability to assess operational risk and return on investment to support continuous value delivery.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and agile ways of working.
• Naturally curious and thrives in ambiguous situations by identifying situational context to resolve problems at hand. Ability to balance empathy and strategic insight to support the delivery of impactful outcomes for the Value Management Office.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and capable of building and maintaining positive relationships with others.
• Ability to quickly analyze and interpret analytic questions and requests directed to the Lean Portfolio Management team; coordinates collaboration and generate results that meet stakeholder expectation(s).
• Ability to take data to create a compelling story and help leaders across the organization understand future state at the enterprise level.
• Ability to meet stakeholders where they are, demonstrating empathy with their acceptance of change, providing critical support through their change journey.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to present complex information in a way that is understandable to various audiences. Ability to interpret a stakeholder's request and clearly articulate a solution. Explicitly and transparently convey information to stakeholders.
• Demonstrates ability to quickly identify key stakeholders and build trust-based relationships. Recognized as a go-to consultant. Ability to consistently set, manage, and realign stakeholder expectations. Maintains a clear focus on stakeholder needs while upholding Lean Portfolio Management principles, ensuring that solutions are both user-centric and value-driven.
• Acts as change champion to positively represent the change to those who will be impacted.
• Able to articulate the "what's in it for me" story to help stakeholders and the LPM team improve data hygiene.
• Experience with relevant tools and applications. Ability to learn, navigate, and leverage new tools and applications quickly.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the healthcare or insurance industry.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for configuration and data management of Value Management tooling demonstrated through deep understanding of navigation (UI), backend data and integrations across systems.
• Creates user guides, training materials and facilitates training for Value Management tooling.
• Responsible for governing the quality of data used in portfolio and execution analysis. Works with key stakeholders and internal teams to improve data quality.
• Creates analyses, charts, dashboards, and reports with actionable insights and recommendations leveraging statistical methods or predictive modeling to identify trends and patterns.
• Provide informal leadership by recommending improvements to flow management, execution predictability and capacity allocation by creating insights and recommendations for assigned portfolios, product teams and leaders.
• Act as change champion for lightweight lean portfolio governance and agile ways of working by surfacing issues and opportunities to mature enterprise value management, improve epic lifecycle flow and optimize team capacity.
• Assess, analyze and quantify the mix of work agile teams are doing (operational and strategic) to uncover trends impacting the flow of highest value and highest priority work. Consult with Release Train Engineers (RTEs) and Lean Portfolio Consultants to improve the health and pace of delivery to advance strategic objectives.
• Coach, train and advocate for agile ways of working.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees