Associate Director, Network Pricing

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.

OptumRx is looking for a curious, adaptable, and self-motivated analyst to be part of our Network Pricing team. This is an intermediate analytics role where you will learn the business fundamentals of drug pricing and client performance management, the underlying data flows, and the tools and systems used in this type of financial analysis. The person in this role will work with and have regular exposure to analysts and projects in our global data science and network pricing teams. In addition, solid communication skills are important as this role partners with other departments including Underwriting, Contracting, Product, Operations Data Strategy, and Tech teams to innovative new product offerings and effectively oversee client and pharmacy performance management.

Supports and validates Provider Network (physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, ancillary facilities, etc.) contracting and unit cost management activities through financial and network pricing modeling, analysis, and reporting. Conducts unit cost and contract valuation analysis in support of network contracting negotiations and unit cost management strategies. Manage unit cost budgets, target setting, performance reporting, and associated financial models

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Owns an end-to-end process
• Develops functional, market level, and/or site strategy, plans, production and/or organizational priorities
• Create specifications to bring data into a common structure, create product specifications and models, developing data solutions to support data analysis
• Partner with stakeholders to understand data requirements and business needs and develop tools and models to assist building of network data products and applications
• Develop insights and proposals for improved business processes to enable speedy deployment and testing of future projects
• Build operational workflows, documentation and QA controls for repeatable and compliant pricing execution
• Partner with network teams to identify opportunities for product and service improvements
• Identifies and resolves technical, operational, and organizational problems outside own team
• Product, service, or process decisions are most likely to impact entire functions and/or customer accounts (internal or external)
• Lead and perform financial analysis and modeling as it relates to setting prescription drug prices
• Concisely summarize and communicate complex concepts, statistical findings and conclusions in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
• Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches
• Lead projects to completion by contributing to database creation, statistical modeling, and financial reports
• Work with tech teams, network analysts, and business partners to understand requirements
• Collaborate with analysts to validate data models, definitions, and assumptions before development begins, ensuring shared understanding across business, product, and tech 
• Ensure data models and analytical logic are reviewed and validated by analysts before being used to deliver end-to-end product features
• Maintain a working understanding of the end-to-end data flow to support sequencing, prioritisation, and tradeoff discussions with analytics and tech partners
• Set team direction, resolve issues and provides guidance to members of own team

You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven extensive experience in creating and using financial modeling tools, spreadsheets, and information acquisition tools including experience in interpreting and/or displaying financial modeling results to inform actionable decisions
• Proven solid management experience
• Proven experience in product strategy or capability management
• Demonstrated success managing and delivering large, complex, multi-stakeholder programs
• Proven expertise in agile software development and collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Proven deep understanding of customer-centric product design and development
• Proven ability to analyze complex data and make informed decisions
• Demonstrated solid written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven previous healthcare or PBM experience
• Proven experience with Big data
• Proven experience in operations, healthcare pricing, network management, healthcare economics or related discipline

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.  

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: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.