Senior Vice President, Optum Health Actuarial and Healthcare Economics
UnitedHealth Group
Jobs: 3612
Senior Vice President, Optum Health Actuarial and Healthcare Economics
Onsite
Eden Prairie, MN, United States
Eden Prairie, MN, United States
Posted 10 days ago
Job Details
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. The Senior Vice President of Optum Health Actuarial and Healthcare Economics leads a team of 450 actuaries, statisticians, analysts, and experts in the field of risk management, data management, and financial analysis to support the Optum Health businesses. The contributions of this role are crucial for Optum Health to the achieve its objectives through reserving, medical expense forecasting, identification of medical expense management opportunities, and evaluation and measurement of medical expense management programs and initiatives. The leader will work with the team to communicate the financial and clinical performance of the organization to key leaders and stakeholders. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. Primary Responsibilities:
- Drive the organization’s analytics strategy, partnering with technology and data experts to build population health and medical expense affordability analytics, leveraging claims and clinical information
- Provide strategic guidance and insight that enables the enterprise to make informed decisions by providing clinical, network, and financial analysis; consulting; and reporting to a broad range of business functions across Optum Health
- Lead a large, complex organization comprised of actuaries, statisticians, and experts in healthcare economics, risk & quality, data management, and network and payer analysis and strategy
- Partner closely with the leadership teams of the Optum Health businesses to gain business insights and ensure collaboration of teams to maximize analytic capabilities, tools, and resources to meet business objectives
- Responsible for monthly medical expense forecasts, reserving, pricing trends, explanation of medical cost results and variances, evaluation of emerging medical cost issues, and ideation, development, and evaluation of health care affordability initiatives
- Maintain strong relationships with business CEOs, CFOs, finance, clinical, network, affordability, and product teams
- Bachelor's degree
- 15+ years of Actuarial and Healthcare Economics experience
- 10+ years of management experience including management of senior staff
- Solid executive presence and ability to communicate clearly and with influence to senior executives.
- Proven ability to perform and manage complex actuarial tasks that have a large financial and risk impact
- Significant background in medical cost reserving, trend analysis, and medical expense forecasting
- Significant experience working with non-actuarial staff including underwriting, clinical, finance, network, and product teams
- Demonstrated knowledge of the health care industry within a complex, matrixed organization
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to summarize and present results to senior management
- Ability to explain and resolve highly complex business problems
- FSA designation
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