Job Description

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.Primary Responsibilities:

• Define the strategy, management, and operations of a portfolio of enterprise strategic data platforms
• Lead a Technical Product team accountable for strategy and roadmap delivery across an engineering organization of ~600 engineers responsible for delivery and maintenance of a portfolio of strategic data platforms and assets that support lines of business in data governance, management, analytics, reporting and digital experience delivery
• Coordinate across Global UnitedHealthcare and Optum Lines of Business, CIO organizations, Legal, Privacy, Security and Procurement for Data Strategy implementation and oversight
• Provide strategic leadership, guidance and consulting on data governance, data architecture, data asset and product curation, providing program coordination and reporting on adoption and implementation progress
• Shape a solid data governance posture with an emphasis on codifying obligations for de-risking data use internally and externally
• Develop organizational structure framework and define key roles, responsibilities, and accountability within each pillar of the Chief Data Office
• Evolve operational metrics for measuring progress on strategic business objectives and key results focused on value delivery, including supporting team in value quantification
• Creation of/contribution to and delivery of executive level communications
• Organize and facilitate organizational level quarterly planning
• Drive ongoing technical innovation to create low friction glidepaths for increased adoption of strategic data platform solutions
• Manage the portfolio of Data Platforms and tools effectively across performance, cost and integrations
• Own shared accountability for operational execution, backlog prioritization, and platform management across the Chief Data Office portfolio, including achieving and maintaining marketing sites, documentation, disaster recovery plans, vulnerability remediation, customer engagement and support
• Create and implement standard operating procedures across Global cross-functional teams in Chief Data Office and support teams in adopting broader Optum Technology standard operating procedures
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• MBA, MPA and/or 10+ years Product and Operations experience, 8+ of which should be in managerial roles
• Experience leading strategy in a start-up context
• Proven effective at building mutually beneficial executive-level relationships internally and externally, positioning the organization and representing the enterprise
• Ability to lead multiple levels of managers to accomplish ETIPS-level strategy
• Ability to anticipate, and independently examine, the business, beyond marketing, assess needs in the context of the larger organization, and lead the creation of an actionable strategic plan for the group, mobilizing internal and external resources as needed
• Ability to create marketing strategy based on market/stakeholder need including messaging and positioning, identification of marketing strategies, media planning, measurement, and analytics
• Ability to guide and impact team members work to create marketing strategy based on market/stakeholder need including messaging and positioning, identification of marketing strategies, media planning, measurement and analytics
• Ability to manage outside vendor/agency relationships against budget, quality/creative standards and timeliness
• Proven deep understanding of the businesses and the product line(s)
• Proven deep understanding of business and financial operations
• Understanding of competition within and across multiple portfolio/ product line(s)
• Proven track record of success building long-term relationships across the cSuite
• Proven engagement with healthcare clients, including boards, executives, and physicians
• Demonstrated ability to provide valuable insights and logical explanations when faced with difficult questions
• Familiar with variety of problem-solving approaches and frameworks
• Established track record of leading multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously
• Ability to provide strategic thought leadership and analytical rigor supporting business decisions
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, up to 25% of the time

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.

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