Data Analytics Portfolio Manager

Ochsner Health

Data Analytics Portfolio Manager managing analytics demand and project processes. Responsible for stakeholder communication and ensuring analytics capacity aligns with highest-value work.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeNew Orleans • Louisiana • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureServiceNow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and evolve the analytics intake process: Design, implement, and continuously improve a clear, scalable process for submitting, reviewing, and routing analytics requests.
Establish intake standards, required fields, and decision criteria that improve request quality and speed time to triage.
Create transparency into request status, pipeline health, and next steps for stakeholders and analytics teams.
Perform light scoping and demand assessment: Partner with requestors and analytics leaders to clarify business objectives, desired outcomes, urgency, dependencies, and high-level level-of-effort.
Translate ambiguous requests into well-defined problem statements, preliminary requirements, and actionable intake packages.
Identify opportunities to consolidate, sequence, defer, or redirect requests based on value, readiness, and strategic fit.
Facilitate prioritization and portfolio governance: Run weekly intake and prioritization meetings with strong preparation, clear recommendations, and documented decisions.
Support prioritization using agreed-upon criteria such as business impact, strategic alignment, effort, risk, timing, and dependencies.
Maintain a current view of analytics demand, in-flight work, backlog, and key trade-offs to support leadership decision-making.
Drive stakeholder communication and alignment: Serve as a primary point of contact for intake-related communication, ensuring stakeholders understand process, timing, status, and decisions.
Build strong relationships across business, operational, and analytics teams to improve intake quality and partnership.
Communicate clearly and diplomatically in situations involving competing priorities, constrained capacity, or changing requirements.
Manage workflow and delivery coordination tools: Manage tasks, updates, and workflow coordination in tools such as OpenText and ClickUp.
Ensure requests, decisions, action items, and status updates are accurately documented and easy to follow.
Partner with teams to improve workflow hygiene, reporting, and operational consistency across the intake-to-delivery lifecycle.
Support portfolio visibility and operational excellence: Develop and maintain reporting, dashboards, or summaries that provide visibility into demand trends, throughput, bottlenecks, and priorities.
Track risks, blockers, and dependencies and escalate issues when timely decisions are needed.
Recommend process improvements that increase transparency, responsiveness, and alignment across the analytics portfolio.
Contribute to broader analytics strategy and operations efforts: Partner with analytics leadership on planning, capacity discussions, prioritization frameworks, and operating rhythms.
Help strengthen the team’s overall ways of working by bringing a product and program mindset to analytics demand management.
Assist with other Data Governance, Data Literacy, enablement, or analytics operations duties as needed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Information Systems, Project Management, Healthcare Administration, or a related field required
4+ years of experience in project management, program management, product management, portfolio management, PMO, or a similar role in analytics, data, technology, or operational environments
Healthcare experience required
Experience managing demand intake, prioritization, backlog governance, or cross-functional work planning
Experience partnering with business stakeholders and technical teams to shape requests, define scope, and coordinate delivery
Experience with workflow and collaboration tools such as ClickUp, OpenText, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, ServiceNow, or similar platforms strongly preferred
Familiarity with analytics, reporting, dashboarding, or data delivery environments preferred
3–5 years of experience in program or project management, ideally within data, analytics, or technology functions
Familiarity with data analytics tools and concepts (e.g., dashboards, reporting, data platforms) preferred
Ability to use relevant AI tools to develop innovative communications and engagement

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Paid time off
Professional development
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementprogram managementproduct managementportfolio managementdemand intakebacklog governancedata analyticsreportingdashboardingdata delivery

Soft Skills

stakeholder communicationrelationship buildingprioritizationproblem solvingdecision makingcollaborationadaptabilitytransparencystrategic alignmentworkflow management