Strategy and Analysis - Associate Director - OI Portfolio Products - Remote

Company: Optum
Location: Plymouth
Posted on: June 25, 2025

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Company: Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), is a leading information, technology-enabled health services, and software business dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. We work with governments, employers, partners, and providers to care for over 146 million people and share a vision of a value-based system of care that provides compassionate and equitable care. With more than 190,000 people worldwide, Optum delivers intelligent, integrated solutions that help to modernize the health system and improve overall population health. At Optum Insight (OI), we champion continuous innovation to provide software, network, and data analytics, technology-enabled services, advisory, and revenue cycle management offerings to help make health care work better for everyone. Team: Within OI’s Product Organization, the Product Strategy and Innovation team is responsible for overseeing OI’s portfolio of software and services products, coordinating investments and innovation across market teams. We help our product teams bring new ideas to market faster via prioritized investment, supported market activation, external and internal partnerships, and acquisitions. OI Product Portfolio Strategy is a new team that will oversee the health and performance of OI’s full portfolio of services and software products. The team will ensure alignment between the product portfolio and OI’s strategic objectives, prioritize product initiatives, monitor product performance, and recommend adjustments to the portfolio, including innovation, acquisition, and sunset decisions. The Strategy Associate will support the Product Portfolio Strategy team by providing critical analysis and insights to optimize the product portfolio. This role involves monitoring product performance, assisting in investment strategy, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. The analyst will work closely with cross-functional teams to compile and analyze data, support decision-making processes, and contribute to the overall success of the portfolio. Success requires enthusiasm for ambiguous projects, independence, and an investigative mindset to find solutions in a complex environment. This person should be relentless in their pursuit of data, someone who won't be discouraged by obstacles and will persist until they find the necessary information. You should be adept at gathering relevant data and transforming it into meaningful insights for presentations shared with leadership. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. Primary Responsibilities: Collect and analyze data on financial performance, client performance, market potential, strategic value, investment performance, and risk for each product Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to track key performance metrics Assist in defining product lifecycle stages and making recommendations for product staging decisions Monitor and report on capital investment performance, including allocation, utilization, program delivery, and ROI Aggregate product metrics into portfolio analytics to monitor portfolio health Prepare regular reports and presentations for senior management and stakeholders Identify trends and insights to inform strategic decisions and guide future investments Experience dealing with ambiguous complex products and technologies Ability to independently take steps to define customer use cases across a variety of customer personas and product categories to produce meaningful insights 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: 6 years collecting data analysis on financial performance, client performance, market potential, strategic value, investment performance, and risk for each product 6 years with analytical skills with proficiency in data analysis tools and software (e.g., Excel, SQL, Tableau) Experience working through ambiguous projects, successfully, in a heavily matrixed healthcare environment Quantitative analysis and experience building complex data models Experience aggregating product metrics into portfolio analytics to monitor portfolio health, presenting reports/presentations for senior management and stakeholders Experience identifying trends and insights to inform strategic decisions and guide future investments Experience developing investment grading criteria and prioritizing investment requests Experience monitoring and reporting on capital investment performance, including allocation, utilization, program delivery, and ROI Preferred Qualification: Experience with Payer and Provider related strategic issues *All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy The salary range for this role is $106,800 to $194,200 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. 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. Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants. 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. UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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