• Job Description

  Req#: 2166394

  Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

  Optum Insight Data & Analytics is seeking an experienced product expert to serve as the Senior Director of Strategic Product Management to develop the next generation of analytic products and solutions to support our Payer, Provider, Life Sciences, and Government clients. This role will lead efforts to develop our clinical analytics product strategy and partner with our platform, data science and clinical methods teams to create holistic analytic solutions that drive improved clinical outcomes, enhance quality, support fiscal improvement and enable operational efficiencies for our clients. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading healthcare analytics organization and commercialize innovative analytics.

  
  The Senior Director of Strategic Product Management will collaborate with key stakeholders (e.g., technical product management, engineering, finance, client-facing services teams, etc.) to drive the development of analytics market solutions that address our clients’ top priorities - across business models (e.g., multi-year partnerships, commercial clients, UHG clients). The leader in this role will design a go-to-market strategy anchored on enabling our clients to achieve outcomes, and partner with cross-functional leadership to build and deploy analytic capabilities that enable Optum to take risk on improving client outcomes.

  
  The primary responsibility of this leader is to drive the analytics product strategy and develop the product vision to support our client and market needs. This role will lead a team of product managers in identifying market needs and opportunities and developing buyer personas and creating and prioritizing the most valuable use case scenarios. The Sr. Director of Strategic Product Management will lead the development of an analytics strategy focused on driving clinical insights and quality improvement. In addition, this leader will partner with Optum Insight Data & Analytics leadership to drive a new approach to sales and client delivery that integrates scaled analytics solutions with analytics services (tailored and custom analytics). The successful candidate will work closely with the sales enablement team to develop sales and marketing collateral; create launch plans; and manage customer acquisition and retention plans. This role is responsible for enabling effective pricing strategies, championing client value propositions, driving macro client NPS improvement, and managing P&L financials.

  
  The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded, influential leader with deep experience in product management, analytical excellence, and clinical domain strategy, including working closely with clients to understand needs, translating the needs of the customer into innovative solutions, and customizing marketing approaches for buyer and user personas. This leader will have at least seven years of experience in Strategic Product Management and understand how to identify and communicate opportunities aligned with the market client climate, competitive landscape, and strategic product goals and roadmap. The ideal candidate will also have a proven track record of managing highly matrixed cross-functional teams and delivering solutions that prove an understanding of client needs. Furthermore, the ideal candidate will have extensive experience working closely with technical teams to drive the solution development, including methodologists and data scientists, product engineers, and technical product management.

  You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

  
  Primary Responsibilities:

  • Drive multi-year clinical analytics product vision and strategy
  • Lead a team of product managers to design and build impactful technology solutions
  • Lead detailed planning and success measurement to support capital planning efforts
  • Develop multi-year revenue and growth plan to achieve analytics growth strategy
  • Identify creative product solutions to meet evolving customer needs
  • Evaluate market trends to proactively identify new opportunities expand product capabilities that drive increased market share
  • Facilitate development of market sizing (including TAM, SAM, & SOM) to inform prioritization and estimate revenue growth
  • Work closely with growth office and sales enablement to develop GTM models for new capabilities
  • Provide oversight for end-to-end business cases and leads stakeholder alignment, including:
    • Market sizing & growth projections
    • Total cost estimation
    • Governance reviews / leadership approvals
    • High-level business requirements
    • Business goals
    • Operational workflow and outcomes
    • Functional requirements
  • Develop analytics roadmaps tied to outcomes and aligned to platform vision
  • Grow and expand expertise within the product management team and other contributing teams
  • Drive alignment with relevant and matrix stakeholders on prioritized outcomes
  • Facilitate synergies across the analytics product suite targeted at shared executive buyers and user personas
  • Conduct market outreach to validate assumptions around assumed high-value outcomes
  • Evaluate competitive position and create a differentiated value story
  • Manage product financials, making product modifications/enhancements as needed to drive profitability and growth

  You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

  Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 7+ years in a Strategic Product Management role with extensive experience in the following areas: new product development, new product launches, market sizing, roadmap creation, and SaaS product development
  • 5+ years of clinical & quality experience in any combination of the following areas: population health, social determinants of health, clinical delivery and optimization, clinical risk identification, or clinical coding and documentation
  • 3+ years of analytics experience in any combination of the following areas: healthcare analytics, clinical excellence & quality analytics, advanced analytics including machine learning and artificial intelligence, data science, data enrichment, or business intelligence
  • Ability to travel up to 15% as needed

  
  Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree (preferably in product management, analytics, business, mathematics, finance, information technology, computer science, healthcare administration, operations leadership, nursing, health sciences, or related field)
  • 3+ years of experience managing full product profitability, including revenue, expense, depreciation, etc.
  • 3+ years of experience leading product management teams
  • 3+ years of experience building, leading, and managing highly matrixed, cross-functional initiatives, including a deep understanding of how to structure initiatives and all related operational functions
  • Proven ability to drive alignment in matrixed organization
  • Proven ability to lead product discovery work as well as to synthesize market findings into new product/enhancement ideas
  • Demonstrated ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple/detail-oriented tasks
  • Demonstrated ability to influence at all levels of the organization

  To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment.

  
  Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges.

  California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island or Washington residents is $142,300 to $273,200. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

  *All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

  
  At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

  Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

  
  UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

• About the company

  UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is an American multinational managed healthcare and insurance company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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