Company:
Mercer
Description:
Technology Portfolio Analysts (TPAs) are senior level analysts who:
TPAs bring together different teams to produce solution proposals. Some examples of collaborations are with:
- Business stakeholders to understand the domain context, and current business need
- Technical Product Managers (TPMs) and Product Owners (POs) to identify technology solutions for new business opportunities, platform upgrades and/or aggregations.
- Development team POD Leadership Teams to gather estimates for delivery
- Architects to ensure solutions align with MMC technology strategy
- CapEx Coordinators, ePMO and Product Council leaders on quarterly CapEx assessments
We will count on you to:
- Lead the Technology Assessment and Estimation process for net new initiatives and major enhancements to existing products
- Produce summary outputs and status updates on the Technology CapEx Assessments
- Provide reports to senior leadership to enable strategic decision making
- Facilitate discovery sessions to gather requirements from business stakeholders and product owners
- Bring together colleagues from global business and technology teams to reach a shared understanding of the ask, and ensure the solution meets the need
- Provide analysis expertise to ensure business requirements are consistently converted into solutions consisting of epics and features, considering technical constraints and existing technical architecture/functionality
- Collaborate with leaders in the delivery team to keep the Pod appraised of upcoming new business demand through the Assessments Process
- Continually improve the process through increased efficiency in requirement gathering
- Ensure that analysis standards and processes are followed throughout assessments and requirements gathering
- Ensure that MMC and Mercer’s technical and security standards and processes are followed during solution design.
- Support TPMs with evaluation of RFP responses from vendors
What you need to have:
- Experience delivering IT projects using Agile methodologies
- Ability to break down complex business requirements into functional epics and features
- Experience collaborating with business stakeholders and technology teams
- Experience evaluating business needs and identifying appropriate solutions
- Experience with projects involving AI solutions (nice to have)
- Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels of the organisation
- Proven ability to produce high-quality documentation that is clear, concise and relevant
- Ability to quickly understand a new business domain or technology environment, especially in the context of rapidly evolving AI technologies and solutions
- Openness to change and the ability to pivot to meet a variety of different asks
- Strong conceptual thinking skills, including the ability to identify commonalities across different systems
- Appreciation of how technical and functional solutions can be combined to provide a complete fit for customers’ requirements
- Structured thinking, strong judgement, and excellent decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Solid understanding of the underlying technology concepts required to deliver end-to-end solutions that meet client needs
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively to meet tight deadlines, with proven planning and organisational skills
- Experience participating in full lifecycle development on large projects (teams of more than 15 people and duration longer than 6 months)
- Domain knowledge in at least one of the following sectors: Health, Wealth, or Career
What makes you stand out?
- Creating process flows in Visio
- Creating product wireframes in Figma
- Building advanced formula in Excel
- Framing a narrative creatively in PowerPoint
- Using Mural or other collaborative platforms
- Using PowerBI or other BI tools to help combine and visualize data from different sources
Why join our team:
- We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
- We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
- Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.
- An opportunity to work in a fast-growing, innovative company with lots of room for progression and career growth;
- A fail-friendly environment that encourages learning and initiative;
- A yearly budget and the opportunity to build your flexible benefits package (up to 20% of your annual salary);
- 30+ days off (25 legal days off , 1 extra day off on your birthday, public holiday replacement days, extra buy/sell from your benefits budget);
- Performance Bonus scheme
- Matching charity contributions, charity days off, and the Pay it Forward charity challenge;
- Core benefits - Pension, Life and Medical Insurance, Meal Vouchers, Travel Insurance;
- We champion flexible working, and our mission is to help you find YOUR work-life balance, whether that's standard working, flex-time working, or working from home
Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.
Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.