Senior Manager of Agile Product Strategy

2 weeks ago

Columbus, Ohio, United States The Cigna Group Full time

Join us in shaping the future of our organization. This role invites you to think strategically while maintaining strong connections with your teams. If you possess experience in product management or leadership, prepare to innovate, create, and motivate. The Senior Manager of Agile Product Strategy will oversee one or more portfolio management areas for UM Core and Channel Services. You will lead a team dedicated to product management, vision, intake, prioritization, planning, value delivery, reporting, governance, and oversight. Your work will be within a matrix environment, managing various sizes of multi-functional projects and programs. A passion for developing team capabilities and skills is essential.

Key Responsibilities

  • Oversee the value delivery of a critical discipline within the capabilities/products.
  • Manage product portfolio intake, coordinating the assessment of new project requests.
  • Create and distribute relevant value-added reports for the portfolio, including epic level status reports, portfolio scorecards, and delivery metrics.
  • Establish, implement, and enforce agile portfolio governance processes.
  • Handle escalated intake, prioritization, or delivery issues.
  • Conduct periodic demand analysis and provide recommendations for seasonal adjustments.
  • Support epic refinement, decomposition, and prioritization.
  • Develop, implement, and enforce a clear and consistent product portfolio prioritization and planning methodology.
  • Establish processes to track, measure, and publish value and cost management.
  • Gather and report on the business value associated with each portfolio request.
  • Document and share the overall portfolio roadmap with key milestones, incorporating input from portfolio leads and Product Owners.
  • Translate strategy into a vision and roadmap for the portfolio.
  • Implement and support Product Increment (PI) planning processes, including preparation and review of planning outcomes.
  • Coordinate portfolio governance, reporting, and oversight with regional portfolio leads as necessary.
  • Foster cross-functional collaboration and actively work to enhance the people, product, and process.
  • Build alignment across product/capability teams and cross-functional leaders through effective communication and strategic influence.
  • Develop new capabilities or products with enterprise-wide impact.
  • Continuously improve skills and competencies by engaging in various internal and external training opportunities and stretch assignments.
  • Drive the organization, people, and processes toward a high-performance, customer-centric culture of quality.
  • Develop teams comprising Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Technology Product Owners, and Business/Systems Analysts.
  • Maintain positive and productive working relationships with teammates, staff, and matrix partners.
  • Exhibit self-direction and the ability to lead a team of professionals within and across matrix partner organizations.
  • Collaborate effectively with larger groups from diverse organizations and report to senior executives.
  • Demonstrate the ability to navigate ambiguity and work under pressure.
  • Possess a strategic and enterprise mindset.
  • Consistently strive to enhance personal skills and competencies through ongoing coaching and training programs.
  • Show a proven ability to produce and exceed desired results.
  • Lead by example in technical expertise, high energy, and a proactive attitude.

Qualifications

  • High School diploma; Bachelor's degree preferred.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience. PMP or other recognized PM certification and Scrum Master Certification(s) are desirable.
  • 10+ years in IT Program Management within a large matrixed organization.
  • Strong experience in project collaboration and communications execution.
  • Extensive knowledge of key components of SDLC and critical PM elements (scope, time, costs, quality, HR, communications, risk mitigation, integration, etc.).
  • A consultative mentality with formal consulting experience is highly desirable.
  • Strong negotiation and decision-making skills.
  • Experience in dashboarding and management-level reporting.
  • Familiarity with healthcare is a plus.
  • Experience with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD processes and systems.

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