Associate Director of Business Strategy - Payment Integrity

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.

We're excited to share that we are looking for an Associate Director of Business Strategy - Payment Integrity to join our Payment Integrity Business Operations team working in either the Dublin or Letterkenny office.

This position will be responsible for overseeing the development and execution of clinically informed strategies to drive growth across the Waste and Error Physician suite of products. As an Associate Director, you will support the expansion of the clinical portfolio to new products across exiting and new vendors, ensuring alignment with UHC's PI Waste & Error strategy and broader enterprise goals.

A fantastic opportunity for you to utilise your portfolio management experience to develop high performing strategies in our portfolio.

As Associate Director of Business Strategy, we will look to you to partner across Optum, vendors and enterprise stakeholders to deliver consistent provider experiences, reduce fragmentation and enable data-driven clinical strategies that unlock new capabilities and support sustainable growth.

Data-driven programme management is key for this position, as you will be responsible for developing new strategies and monitoring their performance post deployment. Collaboration will come naturally to you as you will partner with Legal, Compliance, UCS, Claims Operations and other enterprise stakeholders to co-develop and implement joint clinical initiatives.

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:

• Develop and refine clinically grounded strategies for the Facility suite of products, leveraging deep coding expertise
• Support the expansion of the clinical portfolio to new vendors, ensuring alignment with UHC PI's Waste & Error (W&E) strategy and enterprise goals
• Support the operational build and deployment of new clinical programs, ensuring readiness and adherence to strategic objectives
• Monitor performance metrics across the portfolio, identifying gaps and driving corrective actions.
• Understanding of core claim processing systems

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 experience working in the health insurance business, including knowledge of industry terminology, and regulatory guidelines
• Demonstrated familiarity with regulatory and compliance standards related to coding and clinical documentation
• Proven exposure or understanding of clinical coding, audit strategy or medical documentation review
• Demonstrated effective communicator with the ability to present ideas, influence stakeholders, and write clearly; skilled in executive-level communication, conceptual thinking, and driving change through innovative approaches
• Proven program management background and the ability to lead in a matrixed environment
• Proven experience interpreting and performing analysis on complex datasets

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.


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