Portfolio Manager

Are you passionate about leadership, innovation and committed to promoting excellence in Information Management? If so, bring your skills to this key Portfolio Manager role, where you will provide consulting to customers and executive within an assigned portfolio in the Corporate Information Services area.

Build on your education and career experience as you:

• Develop, lead and mentor a team of staff supporting a customer portfolio:  Employee Experience; Payroll; Centre for Advanced Analytics, Data Science & Innovation; and Foundations;
• Work on and lead projects, handle vendors and client expectations in a complex, fast-paced environment;
• Coordinate project and portfolio resources in conjunction with project stakeholders/managers;
• Provide leadership and consultation on solutions and technologies which could include provincial initiatives;
• Expand your knowledge in the areas of information management, health informatics, project management, business processes, technologies and applications;
• Translate business needs and your vision into strategies for management of external services in healthcare.

To join our team, we will look for you to have:

• Bachelor's degree in Health Information Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• Seven (7) years of related experience in a large, complex organization including at three (3) years’ experience in projects for large scale initiatives.
• PMP Certification or equivalent experience.
• Experience with corporate applications and business processes in a complex environment.
• Prior involvement with and support of HR, Payroll, Staffing and/or Financial systems and teams is a definite asset.
• Prior experience with SaaS implementations is a definite asset.

If this sounds like the ideal role for you, here are more reasons why you should apply:

• A career that offers you the opportunity to work in a fast growing and exciting organization with a dedicated team of Information Management professionals in a dynamic, forward-thinking and rewarding health care environment.
• Fantastic opportunities for support and management roles are available as you advance within the organization.
• Competitive salary package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.
• A chance to create a difference every single day in the world of health care.

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Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health:

The Portfolio Manager provides senior level advice and guidance to Fraser Health executives within an assigned portfolio of Informatics which may include the development and implementation of application architecture. Leads and is accountable for enterprise-wide business and clinical information systems projects; manages timelines and resources; develops project budgets provides leadership to team members and facilitates service design, transition and operations management strategies. Coordinates the work of and supervises assigned staff. Coordinates the procurement and management of external services and devises strategies to ensure long term and maximum utilization of information and technologies. Provides direct supervision to assigned staff.

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities:

• Ability to provide leadership to a variety of large project teams in an environment that constantly changes and that has fluctuating priorities.
• Advanced knowledge of information management, business processes, technologies and applications.
• Knowledge of all components of a technical architecture and health and corporate information systems.
• Ability to translate business needs into application architecture requirements.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the project management process and the systems development life cycle.
• Ability to be organized, goal-oriented, proactive, solution-oriented, pragmatic and the ability to understand the long-term and short-term perspectives.
• Diplomatic negotiation skills and the ability to influence. Understanding of and the ability to manage the political climate of the organization.
• Ability to provide input into project budget development, manage assigned dollars and estimate financial impact of application architecture alternatives.
• Demonstrated decision making ability within complex and diverse issues.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
  

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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