Strategy Portfolio Manager

Job Responsibility: Overview: As the Strategy Portfolio Manager, you are a strategic advisor to the business units you support and have the opportunity to contribute to MPI's transformation by assisting in all corporate and divisional planning activities. As a customer-centric, results oriented self-starter, you will be exposed to many professional growth opportunities in an evolving organization within a changing industry. You will drive cross-divisional alignment between executives and business units to ensure business goals sync with corporate strategy and divisional actions match enterprise direction. You will actively engage with business units in strategic planning and developing their long-term vision and associated roadmaps. Your collaborative approach will ensure strategy is not only executed but also delivers short and long-term benefits by coordinating planning and delivery efforts across the Digital & Transformation Division, with the Agile Project Management Office (aPMO) and Enterprise Value Assurance teams. Your business acumen and attention to detail provide tremendous value to the business units you support by translating industry trends into actionable insights, developing sound business cases and sharing progress against goals to enable the organization to celebrate achievements. Responsibilities:

• Contribute knowledge of strategic planning frameworks and understanding of corporate priorities to strategic planning and business planning activities.
• Support the growth of the corporate strategic mindset by developing strategy related materials that drive engagement and alignment on corporate priorities.
• Lead integrated strategic planning teams, leveraging corporate insights, performance metrics and industry best practices to achieve business outcomes via continuous improvement and creative problem solving.
• Lead annual OKR (objectives and key results) activities that determine transformational commitments
• Support initiative development and assessment including scope definition, strategic alignment and operationalization requirements by liaising with internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as the subject matter expert in business case development and analysis.
• Collaborate across the organization to coordinate the annual strategic cycle, manage the ongoing initiative pipeline, and inform all approval processes.
• Create key strategy and planning documents used to facilitate action-oriented discussions with the Executive Committee and other working committees including creatively conveying data and analysis with charts, tables and other visuals in pre-read and presentation materials.
• Investigate changes in performance with a collaborative approach and discovery mindset to uncover areas of opportunity and risk.
• Assist with facilitating workshops and committee meetings, synthesizing input from leaders across the organization and following up on action items.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with executive sponsors, all levels of staff across the organization, external vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Partner with Digital & Transformation divisional peers on strategic planning, including identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Responsible for sharing best practices and evolving team processes to ensure efficiency and ongoing improvement of the Strategic Framework and service offerings of the Strategy Office.
• Foster a high-performance team culture that is consistent with corporate vision, values and leading practices.
• Govern the strategy to execution efforts in a Scaled Agile environment.
• Ensure activities comply with Corporate Directives, policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Commerce, Business, Information Technology or related discipline.
• Seven years of related experience, including;
  • Three years in a leadership capacity in project or strategy delivery.
  • Five years at a senior business analyst level
• Experience in product strategy/vision/roadmaps in a Lean-Agile environment is an asset.
• Experience collaborating with or managing complex cross-departmental teams in a Lean-Agile environment is an asset.
• Ability to apply Business Process Management skills and techniques to business solutions to maximize business value management and operational effectiveness.
• Creative, solution-focused problem solver, with the energy and tenacity to work through complex systems with multiple challenges.
• Advanced communication skills with the ability to engage and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment.
• Advanced relationship management, leadership and influencing skills to guide Leaders, Enterprise Architecture, Product Owners, Agile Release Trains, and all stakeholders to understand vision, resources, priorities and definition of completion/release.
• Outstanding written and oral communications, engaging presentation delivery, and superior organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple activities simultaneously with minimal direction, relying on experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals.
• Customer service and results oriented with demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a collaborative team.

Employee Benefits: Health benefits We offer a comprehensive health benefits program that includes:

• flexible health, dental and vision plans
• health spending account
• travel health coverage
• other extended health benefits such as ambulance, massage and physiotherapy

Financial security In an effort to support financial security, we offer:

• registered pension plan
• group, dependent, and optional life insurance coverage
• critical illness insurance
• sick leave to cover short-term disability
• long-term disability

Wellness We offer programs that focus on how to better achieve a balance between work and personal commitments, as well as maintain a healthy workplace culture. This includes:

• vacation entitlement
• flexible work arrangement for eligible positions
• maternity, parental and adoptive leaves
• bereavement and family responsibility leaves
• employee and family assistance program
• mental-health programming
• lunch-and-learn offerings
• discounted gym memberships and wellness account

Diversity and inclusion Manitoba Public Insurance believes that diversity and inclusion strengthens us. We consider ourselves to be a barrier-free organization where individual values, beliefs and practices are respected and appreciated for the diversity they bring to our work life. Employee recognition It's important to recognize our employees for their contributions. Not only do we recognize employees as they achieve milestone years in their careers, we also have several outlets for leaders and peers to reward each other for work well done. Professional development We want our employees to grow, which is why we offer support in keeping their skills up-to-date. We offer in-house training, professional development and an educational assistance program. Safety and health In an effort to encourage a safe and healthy work environment, we offer various safety, health and workplace policies and programs along with technical expertise and assistance to support employee activities in safety and health.