Jobs at Optum

The Associate Director will lead transformation strategies for payment integrity, manage complex programs, collaborate with leaders, and ensure operational performance improvements.

The Pharma Partnerships Manager will engage with pharmaceutical manufacturers, manage accounts, develop strategic relationships, and contribute to operational excellence in healthcare partnerships.

Lead payment integrity transformation by developing and executing non-clinical process improvement strategies. Partner with operations, analytics, R&D, and technology to create business cases, roadmaps, and resource plans. Track and automate performance metrics and statistical controls, drive corrective actions, communicate progress to senior leadership, and ensure financial benefits are realized and reflected in P&L.

Use advanced analytics and machine learning on complex healthcare datasets to identify patterns, design and build models, run experiments, and translate insights into data-driven solutions that improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

Lead a 30-person analytics organization to define strategy, identify savings and growth opportunities, drive automation and BI adoption, partner with data science, and deliver measurable Payment Integrity outcomes through governance, scorecards, and executive reporting.

The Vice President of Capability Strategy for Payment Integrity will lead the development and execution of global Payment Integrity capabilities, focusing on standardization, automation, and integration with related functions to improve operational efficiency and financial impact.

Design, build, and maintain scalable big-data analytic solutions for clinical teams. Translate business requirements into technical specifications, apply predictive analytics and ML, create visualizations and dashboards, migrate legacy data, and recommend process improvements to support healthcare outcomes and operational efficiency.

Lead pharmacy network contracting strategy across commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid lines. Negotiate complex agreements with chains, PS AOs, and independents; optimize network composition and reimbursement models; partner with finance, legal, and clinical teams to manage contract lifecycle, compliance, cost performance, and client engagements; lead and develop a contracting team while providing market intelligence and supporting RFPs and client strategies.

The Associate Director leads the Business Analysis and Reporting team, managing key operational reports and performance measures while fostering relationships with stakeholders.

Lead and develop an actuarial and regulatory team focused on pricing and underwriting assumption setting, trend forecasting, governance, model modernization, and regulatory impact analysis. Partner with Product, Technology, Finance, Underwriting, and Industry Relations to influence strategy, chair forecasting governance, communicate performance, and drive model innovation and cross-functional alignment.

Manage payer contracting and relationships for assigned payors, lead contract negotiations, ensure contract compliance, develop payor strategies, resolve escalations, and support operational and financial analysis.

Lead product strategy and execution for the Unified Risk & Quality Platform (URQP), manage a team of product leaders, establish operating models and governance, align investments with stakeholders, define success metrics and value realization, support business case and financial stewardship, and drive cross-functional prioritization and adoption while leveraging data, analytics, automation, and AI to improve platform outcomes.

Provide Tier 1 remote technical support for Change Healthcare Radiology PACS across Ireland/UK/France. Troubleshoot application, system, connectivity, and database issues; manage support tickets; monitor alerts; document activities; maintain knowledge base articles; collaborate with internal teams and escalate as needed; meet SLAs and participate in an on-call rota.

The role oversees health and safety strategies for UHG EMEA sites, focusing on risk management and compliance with regulations, while leading a team in promoting a proactive safety culture.

Senior leader responsible for designing, delivering, and improving BI, reporting, analytics, and data management. Partners with stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, ensure data quality, define metrics, drive automation and AI-first improvements, and lead a team of analytics specialists to support operational and strategic decision-making.

Provide high-level administrative support to two senior leaders: complex calendar and travel management, expense and visitor coordination, preparation of executive presentations and materials, stakeholder engagement across Ireland and the US, and use of technology/AI tools to improve efficiency.

Support establishment and operations of Pharma Strategy through US commercial pharmacy market navigation, rebate optimization financial modeling, therapeutic clinical knowledge, market and competitor analysis, strategic recommendations, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure compliant, cost-effective solutions.

Lead quality oversight, audit assurance and performance management across programmes. Establish quality frameworks, drive audit integrity, perform root-cause analysis and CAPA, deliver data-led continuous improvement, create dashboards and executive reporting, and partner with operations and clients to close feedback loops and improve measurable outcomes.

Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines and processing jobs (PySpark/SQL) on cloud platforms (Azure, Databricks, Snowflake). Ensure data quality, governance, monitoring, and automation; partner with analytics and infrastructure teams to productionalize analytic pipelines and support platform architecture.

Lead migration of Excel-based actuarial and pricing tools into scalable platforms. Translate actuarial and business requirements into technical solutions, ensure accurate auditable outputs, develop coding standards and testing, provide consultancy to underwriters, and mentor junior analysts.