Portfolio Analyst – Enterprise PMO Office
Top Benefits
About the role
Alberta Blue Cross® is an Alberta based organization dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experience and community leadership. We’re committed to providing the best health coverage to over 1.8 million members and take an active role in promoting wellness. We believe in what we do—and place trust in our employees to deliver our vision.
Working at Alberta Blue Cross® means having a career where you’ll be recognized for your contributions. We value diversity, encourage our team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance and provide opportunities for career growth.
OVERVIEW: Are you passionate about driving meaningful change and shaping how projects come to life? Alberta Blue Cross is looking for a full-time Portfolio Analyst to join our evolving Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPMO) team. This newly created role offers a unique opportunity to help shape our portfolio governance practices. You’ll be part of a collaborative team that values fresh ideas, continuous improvement, and strategic thinking.
WHAT YOU WILL DO: Reporting to the Manager, Portfolio Governance, you will play an important role in managing and triaging requests for enhancements and projects. You will:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the submission and review of requests.
- Work with IT leadership, business sponsors, and their teams to clarify needs, risks and priorities.
- Assess and triage requests, ensuring alignment with business goals and organizational priorities.
- Review and support the development of business cases, offering guidance on effectively articulating business problems and opportunities, impacts, and implementation considerations.
- Facilitate discussions that drive clarity and actionable outcomes.
- Identify trends across requests and recommend approaches to address them.
- Maintain clear documentation, tracking and reporting.
- Continuously improve the request intake and triage process.
WHAT YOU WILL HAVE:
- A degree in information technology or related discipline.
- 8 years’ experience working as a senior business or systems analyst, ideally within an EPMO.
- Experience with Microsoft Office and collaboration tools (Teams, SharePoint).
- Experience working with project and / or service management processes and tools (e.g., MS Project, ServiceNow, Jira) would be an asset.
- Exceptional planning, organizational, and communication abilities.
- Strong facilitation and engagement skills with a collaborative mindset.
- Strong collaboration, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills.
- Confidence working independently and building strong relationships across teams.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is selected.
Alberta Blue Cross® is an inclusive employer committed to a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We empower and are advocates for our team members by welcoming, respecting and valuing their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.
We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, high-energy team-focused environment. If you have the qualifications we are looking for, apply online at careers.ab.bluecross.ca
About Alberta Blue Cross
We believe that people, workplaces and communities deserve to be and live well—and we can help. As a benefits provider and wellness leader, we have the opportunity to play an important role in fostering the health and well-being of our customers across their lifetimes.
We provide benefits to more than 1.8 million Albertans through group, government and individual plans. Alberta-based, not-for-profit, wellness-driven, customer committed.
Living our values Our values represent who we are, what we stand for and the culture that guides us. In all we do, we keep our values at the forefront.
Integrity and trust
We are respectful, ethical, honest and inclusive in all that we do.
Wellness and flexibility
We promote and inspire a healthy culture of support, adaptability and compassion across our workplace and our communities.
Customer committed
We are accountable and committed to our customers and passionate in the delivery of an exceptional customer experience.
Empowering potential
We support learning and growth while fostering a diverse environment that cultivates collaboration and innovation.
Portfolio Analyst – Enterprise PMO Office
Top Benefits
About the role
Alberta Blue Cross® is an Alberta based organization dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experience and community leadership. We’re committed to providing the best health coverage to over 1.8 million members and take an active role in promoting wellness. We believe in what we do—and place trust in our employees to deliver our vision.
Working at Alberta Blue Cross® means having a career where you’ll be recognized for your contributions. We value diversity, encourage our team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance and provide opportunities for career growth.
OVERVIEW: Are you passionate about driving meaningful change and shaping how projects come to life? Alberta Blue Cross is looking for a full-time Portfolio Analyst to join our evolving Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPMO) team. This newly created role offers a unique opportunity to help shape our portfolio governance practices. You’ll be part of a collaborative team that values fresh ideas, continuous improvement, and strategic thinking.
WHAT YOU WILL DO: Reporting to the Manager, Portfolio Governance, you will play an important role in managing and triaging requests for enhancements and projects. You will:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the submission and review of requests.
- Work with IT leadership, business sponsors, and their teams to clarify needs, risks and priorities.
- Assess and triage requests, ensuring alignment with business goals and organizational priorities.
- Review and support the development of business cases, offering guidance on effectively articulating business problems and opportunities, impacts, and implementation considerations.
- Facilitate discussions that drive clarity and actionable outcomes.
- Identify trends across requests and recommend approaches to address them.
- Maintain clear documentation, tracking and reporting.
- Continuously improve the request intake and triage process.
WHAT YOU WILL HAVE:
- A degree in information technology or related discipline.
- 8 years’ experience working as a senior business or systems analyst, ideally within an EPMO.
- Experience with Microsoft Office and collaboration tools (Teams, SharePoint).
- Experience working with project and / or service management processes and tools (e.g., MS Project, ServiceNow, Jira) would be an asset.
- Exceptional planning, organizational, and communication abilities.
- Strong facilitation and engagement skills with a collaborative mindset.
- Strong collaboration, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills.
- Confidence working independently and building strong relationships across teams.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is selected.
Alberta Blue Cross® is an inclusive employer committed to a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We empower and are advocates for our team members by welcoming, respecting and valuing their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.
We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, high-energy team-focused environment. If you have the qualifications we are looking for, apply online at careers.ab.bluecross.ca
About Alberta Blue Cross
We believe that people, workplaces and communities deserve to be and live well—and we can help. As a benefits provider and wellness leader, we have the opportunity to play an important role in fostering the health and well-being of our customers across their lifetimes.
We provide benefits to more than 1.8 million Albertans through group, government and individual plans. Alberta-based, not-for-profit, wellness-driven, customer committed.
Living our values Our values represent who we are, what we stand for and the culture that guides us. In all we do, we keep our values at the forefront.
Integrity and trust
We are respectful, ethical, honest and inclusive in all that we do.
Wellness and flexibility
We promote and inspire a healthy culture of support, adaptability and compassion across our workplace and our communities.
Customer committed
We are accountable and committed to our customers and passionate in the delivery of an exceptional customer experience.
Empowering potential
We support learning and growth while fostering a diverse environment that cultivates collaboration and innovation.