PMO Business Analyst Lead

How Will You Make An Impact

Support the PMO intake and prioritization process by helping define project scope, objectives, success criteria, and business case justification.

Partner with requestors to clearly articulate the “why,” expected outcomes, benefits, and risks of proposed initiatives.

Facilitate discovery sessions and working meetings with business, clinical, and operational stakeholders.

Develop clear problem statements, current-state and future-state workflows, and impact assessments.

Requirements

• Elicit, analyze, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Create and maintain requirements documentation, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, and assumptions.
• Ensure requirements are traceable, prioritized, and aligned with approved scope and objectives.
• Support change control by assessing the business, timeline, budget, and resource impacts of scope changes.

Portfolio, Budget & Resource Management

• Support portfolio-level analysis to help leadership understand demand, capacity, and prioritization tradeoffs.
• Affiliate with project budget tracking, forecast updates, and variance analysis.
• Support resource planning by analyzing capacity, allocation, and utilization across projects.
• Identify resource constraints, competing priorities, and delivery risks at the portfolio level.
• Contribute to portfolio dashboards, reporting, and executive summaries.

Stakeholder & Project Support

• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders, project managers, and delivery teams.
• Assist with PMs with milestone readiness, risk identification, dependency tracking, and issue analysis.
• Affiliate with stakeholder communication and expectation management.
• Participate in project and portfolio governance meetings as needed.

PMO Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Standardize and continuously improve PMO processes, tools, and templates.
• Affiliate with portfolio reporting, KPIs, and performance metrics.
• Identify opportunities to improve intake, prioritization, and delivery effectiveness.
• Contribute to the ongoing maturity of PMO governance and operating practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, Finance, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years of experience in a Business Analyst, Project Analyst, or PMO support role.
• Experience supporting project and/or portfolio management activities.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder facilitation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, regulated environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a PMO or enterprise portfolio management environment.
• Healthcare industry experience (provider, payer, or managed services preferred).
• Experience with financial analysis, budgeting, or resource planning for projects.
• Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, and waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Experience with tools such as Smartsheet, MS Project, Jira, or similar PPM platforms.
• CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, PMP, or similar certification (preferred, not required).

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and financial reasoning skills.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements.
• Clear and practical written and verbal communication.
• Comfort working with executives, clinicians, and operational leaders.
• Detail-oriented with a portfolio-level mindset.
• Ability to identify risks, constraints, and tradeoffs across projects.

Compensation

$103,043.00 to $154,563.00