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Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield · 2 days ago

Lean Portfolio Analyst

Des Moines, IA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Wellmark, Inc. is a mutual insurance company focused on the well-being of its members. The Lean Portfolio Analyst role involves providing analytics support to optimize product health and capacity planning within a portfolio, leveraging data to deliver insights and recommendations for improved performance.

Financial ServicesHealth InsuranceInsurancePersonal Health

No H1B

Responsibilities

Provide analytics support to product health within a portfolio

Support enterprise capacity planning, lean portfolio management, and value delivery by ingesting, profiling, normalizing, and interpreting data from multiple sources

Create consumable outputs with summaries of key findings and recommended actions

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

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

Responsible for configuration and data management of Value Management tooling demonstrated through deep understanding of navigation (UI), backend data and integrations across systems

Create user guides, training materials and facilitate 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

Create 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

Qualification

Data analysisStatistical methodsFinancial data interpretationAgile methodologiesData quality managementChange managementHealthcare industry experienceCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

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