Manager - Portfolio Management - IT Business Partner

Primary Responsibilities:

- Partner with business and IT stakeholders to identify the highest priority programs

- Provide OptumTech and business stakeholders intelligence on the health of the portfolio

- Understand, evaluate and manage risks to the portfolio(Look for indicators which provide an insight into underlying issues etc, help uncover these trends and communicate with stakeholders)

- Balance commitments to achieve maximum results within the capacity of the budget and staffing

- Partner to continuously improve portfolio processes

- Participate in coordination of resource management including IT resources, business resources and vendor resources

- Communicate effectively and timely with appropriate peers across the business and IT organizations

Required Qualifications:(7-10 years)

- 7 or more years of professional experience in Information Systems driving change and/or operating complex systems

- 7 or more years of professional IT management experience in a large, enterprise environment

- 3 or more years of professional Manager level matrixed experience in a large, enterprise environment

- Experience in health care benefit business

- Financial Management experience

- Tools: PPMOptics/Clarity or similar enterprise wide applications

- Well versed in MS suite - Projects, office

Preferred Qualifications:

- Application Development experience

- Program Management experience

- Graduate/PG Degree : Educational qualification ; major in Computer science, Technology

- PMP or similar certifications

Deliverables:

Assist with updating portfolio program financials and demographics daily/ weekly in PPMOptics

Assist with preparing updates/reporting regarding portfolio health for monthly Portfolio Investment meetings (e.g., program maturity, program spend by goal/strategy, & program performance)

Identify and correct manually maintained portfolio data that is not correctly aligned (e.g., program maturity)

Align all Ideas, programs, and projects with UHC Goals, Strategy, and Tactics - daily / weekly

Assist with the tracking of Ideas from submission thru funding approval daily/weekly

Provide monthly analysis indicating the financial health of the portfolio by identifying risks in the programs utilizing Actuals, Forecasts, Burn Rates etc.

- Identify trends and issues.

- Identify under-performing and over-achieving programs and recommend changes to forecast and or status

Identify resources / tasks not staffed on programs to determine impact to finances monthly

Verify IT resource and queue capacity for programs prior to funding approval

Portfolio Management:

Location: Hyderabad

Timings: 2.30pm-12am (no month close timing)

Designation: Manager L1

IC role

Requirement: combination role

PMO role (40-50%) + demand management role (40-50%)

FP&A - 2-3% (good to have)

- Well versed with reporting tools (Clarity/Cognos/PPM Optics)

- Program management, Risk assessment, document review

- Strong communication skills