Data Analytics Portfolio Manager- Remote

Data Analytics Portfolio And Intake Manager

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This can be a remote position. The Data Analytics Portfolio and Intake Manager is a key role responsible for helping the organization make smart, strategic decisions about analytics demand. This role blends project management, analytics product management, and program management to create structure around how analytics work is requested, evaluated, prioritized, tracked, and communicated. Key areas of responsibility include designing and managing the analytics intake process, performing light upfront scoping of incoming requests, partnering with stakeholders to clarify needs and expected value, maintaining visibility to demand and delivery status, and facilitating weekly intake and prioritization forums.

This person will help ensure that analytics capacity is aligned to the highest-value work and that stakeholders understand what is in queue, what is in progress, and what comes next. This role serves as the connective tissue between business stakeholders and analytics delivery teams. The ideal candidate brings the discipline of a strong project manager, the prioritization mindset of a product manager, and the cross-functional coordination skills of a program manager.

They will manage work and communication across tools such as Open Text and Click Up, drive process consistency, surface risks and dependencies early, and continuously improve the way analytics demand is governed and delivered. This is a full-time individual contributor role that may be remote, with occasional travel to New Orleans for team and stakeholder activities.

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 Open Text and Click Up.
• 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…