Manager, Product Portfolio – Product

Alberta Blue Cross® is an Alberta based organization dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experience and community leadership. We’re committed to providing the best health coverage to over 1.8 million members and take an active role in promoting wellness. We believe in what we do—and place trust in our employees to deliver our vision.

Working at Alberta Blue Cross® means having a career where you’ll be recognized for your contributions. We value diversity, encourage our team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance and provide opportunities for career growth.

OVERVIEW:

As Manager, Product Portfolio, you'll lead a strategic portfolio of products while coaching and developing a team of Product Managers. This player-coach role combines strategic leadership with hands-on product management, translating enterprise strategy into product decisions that deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes.

Working closely with the Director, Product and key enterprise partners, you'll shape portfolio priorities, guide investment decisions, and help Product Managers grow into confident product leaders. You'll also play a key role in advancing Product Management across Alberta Blue Cross by strengthening product practices, building organizational capability, and helping teams deliver greater value for customers.

What Success Looks Like

In your first year, you will:

• Lead a high-performing portfolio aligned with enterprise priorities.

• Develop Product Managers who confidently lead product strategy and decision-making.

• Build strong partnerships that enable cross-functional teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.

• Improve portfolio performance through informed investment and prioritization decisions.

• Advance Product Management practices that strengthen how Alberta Blue Cross delivers value.

WHO YOU ARE:

• A strategic product leader who connects customer needs, market opportunities, and business strategy.

• A trusted coach who develops Product Managers into confident product leaders.

• A collaborative leader who builds alignment across diverse teams and influences without formal authority.

• A thoughtful decision-maker who balances customer value, business outcomes, and risk in complex environments.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Lead Your Product Portfolio

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and performance of a portfolio of products aligned with enterprise priorities.

• Translate enterprise strategy into clear product priorities and investment recommendations.

• Monitor portfolio performance and identify opportunities to improve customer value and business results.

Develop Product Leaders

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Product Managers, strengthening strategic thinking, decision-making, and product leadership.

• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.

• Build product management capability across the organization.

Deliver Through Partnership

• Partner with Digital Product, Sales, Corporate Strategy & Market Development, Pricing, Marketing, IT, Operations, Finance, and other enterprise teams to bring products from concept to market.

• Build alignment, remove barriers, and facilitate effective decision-making across stakeholders.

• Balance customer needs, business priorities, and organizational objectives when making product decisions.

Advance Product Excellence

• Champion modern product management practices across the organization.

• Strengthen portfolio governance, prioritization, roadmap management, and product performance measurement.

• Contribute to the continued evolution of Product Management at Alberta Blue Cross.

WHAT YOU WILL HAVE:

• 7+ years of progressive product management experience leading product strategy, roadmap development, lifecycle management, and business performance.

• Experience leading, coaching, and developing Product Managers or other product professionals.

• Proven success managing multiple products or portfolios while balancing customer, commercial, and organizational priorities.

• Strong business acumen, using customer insights, market intelligence, financial performance, and data to guide decisions.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to influence across all organizational levels.

• Experience developing product strategies, business cases, and executive recommendations.

• Bachelor's degree in Business or a related discipline.

• Experience in B2B, direct-to-consumer, or multi-segment product environments is an asset.

• Health insurance industry experience is an asset.

WHAT WE WILL DO FOR YOU:

• Support a healthy work-life balance.

• Invest in your continued growth as a product leader.

• Empower you to lead a strategic portfolio while remaining actively engaged in product management.

• Give you the opportunity to influence enterprise strategy and the future direction of our products.

• Enable you to build exceptional Product Managers and advance a modern Product Management practice.

• Surround you with collaborative leaders committed to innovation, customer value, and meaningful business outcomes.

• Provide the opportunity to leave a lasting impact on our products, our organization, and the health and well-being of Albertans.

This position will close on July 31, 2026.

Alberta Blue Cross® is an inclusive employer committed to a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We empower and are advocates for our team members by welcoming, respecting and valuing their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.

We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, high-energy team-focused environment. If you have the qualifications we are looking for, apply online at careers.ab.bluecross.ca

A criminal record check satisfactory to Alberta Blue Cross will be required as a condition of employment, following a conditional offer.