Job Description

Overview

As the Strategy Portfolio Manager, you will be responsible for generating clear corporate priorities, determining divisional actions to achieve corporate goals, and ensuring cross-functional alignment by coordinating the working relationship between the business and the Project Management Office (PMO), as well as other business units, executive sponsors, internal stakeholders, and external vendors. You will work closely with members of the PMO, product management, and other delivery teams on transforming business operations through the successful execution of strategic corporate initiatives and projects.

The Strategy Portfolio Manager leverages a collaborative approach to connect the dots between individual business unit goals and corporate strategic and value assurance goals. You will act as a strategic advisor to the business and actively participate in strategic planning activities alongside leaders. The position enables the end-to-end strategy to execution cycle by approaching this internal service with a customer-centric and collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Shape strategy & assess opportunities — connect new ideas to our corporate priorities and roadmap commitments.
• Drive execution, governance & reporting — ensure initiatives are well-structured, resourced, monitored, and positioned for success across functions.
• Tell the story with clarity — distill complex information into compelling presentations and facilitate engaging sessions with executives, functional leaders, and teams at all levels.
• Facilitate collaboration — lead meetings and workshops that drive decision-making, accountability, and momentum.
• See the big picture — understand the cumulative impact of decisions across the organization and guide leaders toward the best path forward.
• Plan across horizons — experience with enterprise-level planning of functional and technical roadmaps is an asset. You can connect enterprise strategy to divisional and functional goals, showing clearly what matters now, next, and later.
• Prioritize with discipline — experience with prioritization methodologies, business case development, and effort/impact estimation is an asset. From initial high-level “t-shirt sizing” to in-depth estimation as more details emerge, you bring best practices that ensure focus on the work that delivers the greatest value.

Qualifications

Education:

• Degree in Commerce, Business, Information Technology, or related discipline.

Experience:

• Seven years of related experience, including;

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

• Comfort leading cross-functional planning, simplifying complexity, and ensuring alignment across the enterprise.
• A team player with advanced communication skills who adds value to culture — collaborative, versatile, and focused on making peers stronger.

Conditions of Employment

• Candidates must have a valid driver’s licence.

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
• 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
• maternity, parental and adoptive leaves
• bereavement and family responsibility leaves
• employee and family assistance program
• mental-health programming
• onsite employee gym facility (Cityplace)
• discounted gym memberships
• 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.