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Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield · 22 hours ago

Senior Lean Portfolio Analyst

Des Moines, IA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield is a mutual insurance company focused on the well-being of its members. The Senior Lean Portfolio Analyst will provide analytics support at the Agile Release Train level, serve as a thought leader, and mentor the team to enhance lean portfolio capabilities using statistical methods and predictive modeling.

Financial ServicesHealth InsuranceInsurancePersonal Health

No H1B

Responsibilities

Provide thought leadership in portfolio and product operating budget allocation, investment showback and forecasting

Create budget and investment recommendations to ensure enterprise and operational priorities are balanced and understood to inform economic trade-offs discussions

Provide data and insights to Lean Portfolio Consultants and the Lean Portfolio Value Manager to improve the health and pace of investment delivery

Monitor and govern capacity management and investment data quality to validate fitness for enterprise consumption. Coaches Portfolio Analysts on areas of improvement to ensure data accuracy

Creates and analyzes reports to spot patterns and trends, making recommendations for improvement to Lean Portfolio Consultants and Lean Portfolio Value Manager

Monitor and analyze capacity data to support early identification of issues that impede optimal capacity utilization and inhibit the flow of value. Recommend actions to optimize capacity and flow management to enable predictable delivery

Coach and mentor Lean Portfolio Analysts to strengthen skillsets and advance analytic thinking within the team

Regularly review key reporting suites and validate Lean Portfolio Analyst observations and recommendations. Ensure timely delivery of analyses and insights to stakeholders

Partner with FP&A to ensure economic frameworks are established and monitored to enable data-driven trade-off decisions and optimal resource allocation across value streams and ARTs

Maintains a clear focus on stakeholder needs while upholding Lean Portfolio Management principles, ensuring that solutions are both user-centric and value-driven. Balances empathy and strategic insight to deliver impactful outcomes across the Value Management Office

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

Data analysisPredictive analyticsAgile methodologiesFinancial analysisStakeholder managementChange managementCuriosityEmpathyCommunication skillsTeam collaborationRelationship buildingProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor's degree in related field or direct and applicable work experience

Minimum of 5 years of experience in a role leveraging data and information to provide meaningful insights to others

Proficient with ingesting, profiling, normalizing and interpreting large amounts of data from multiple sources, creating consumable outputs with summaries of key findings and recommended actions

Exceptional ability to uncover patterns, trends, and anomalies within data. Ability to apply statistical methods or predictive analytics to forecast trends or outcomes

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

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 recommendation

Strong understanding of enterprise operations helping leaders across the organization connect data to the enterprise picture. Able to craft a compelling story from data to influence decision-making

Act as change champion to positively represent the change to those who will be impacted

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 meet stakeholders where they are, demonstrating empathy with their acceptance of change, providing critical support through their change journey

Strong ability to quickly identify key stakeholders and build trust-based relationships. Ability to consistently set, manage, and realign stakeholder expectations

Able to articulate the 'what's in it for me' story to help stakeholders and the LPM team improve data hygiene

Experience working with Agile methodologies

Naturally curious and thrives in ambiguous situations by identifying situational context to resolve problems at hand

Ability to work well in a team environment and capable of building and maintaining positive relationships with others

Experience with relevant tools and applications. Ability to learn, navigate, and leverage new tools and applications quickly