Data Analytics Portfolio Manager- Remote

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Main Responsibilities

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 dema