UnitedHealth Group is among the most ambitious Fortune 25 companies you'll ever meet. Through our family of businesses, we're working to make the health care system perform better for more people, in more ways than ever.
Simply put, we think the entire system can be greater than it's ever been. And that drives us to work harder, aim higher, and expect more from one another.
Here, you'll be empowered to make an immediate impact for millions of others. And you'll achieve more than you ever expected. How does that fit with your plans?
Sr Director of Product Development-316380
UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.
Description
OptumHealth is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.
If you want more meaning in your career - as a clinician or a business professional - think of OptumHealth as your calling.
By providing 60 million Americans with information, tools and solutions, we are helping to guide them through the health care system, financing their health care needs, and enabling them to achieve their personal health and well-being goals.
This position will be part of the newly formed Innovative Health Solutions team at OptumHealth. Individuals will need to be effective working in a fast-paced, dynamic, and changing environment. The focus of the team is to create, implement, test, prove, and commercialize a health management solution that drives value for customers at orders of magnitude higher than achieved before in health management. Specific roles and responsibilities include:
- Conduct thorough problem and root cause analyses on high spend, impactable cost drivers via claims analysis, focus group research, competitive intelligence, and other primary / secondary research means
- Conceptualize, design, implement, and test solutions that impact medical cost spend, targeting providers, consumers, benefit administrators, and/or payers.
- Thoroughly define the value proposition and prove impact on medical cost trend through deploying cost reducing solutions in a test environment with live customers
- Refine solutions over time to improve performance and deliver value
- Commercialize the solution from the test environment to the larger business
- Direct product, market and customer research to qualify program development ideas and quantify business opportunity.
- Create and manage project plans and development budgets for multiple initiatives.
- Organize and lead multi-departmental work teams to design and implement new programs and services.
- Work with finance to design cost and pricing models that maximize sales and marketing potential of the program.
- Conduct industry and customer surveys and/or focus groups to evaluate program design, positioning and price.
- Work with Leadership, to create marketing and sales materials, as well as launch strategy and marketing communications plan.
- Train sales and account management staff in the specifics of the new program, and keep them informed of new developments and enhancements.
- May eventually provide leadership to and be accountable for the performance of managers and/or senior level professional staff.
- May manage relationships with strategic partners, including provider community and benefit decision makers
At OptumHealth, you will perform within an innovative culture that's focused on transformational change in the health care system. You will leverage your skills across a diverse and multi-faceted business. And you will make contributions that will have an impact that's greater than you've ever imagined.
Qualifications
- A Bachelors degree is required. Masters is a plus.
- 10+ years of general management, product management, and / or product development experience. Healthcare experience a plus.
- Minimum of 7 years experience managing large projects and/or leading multi-departmental workgroups.
- Proven track record delivering strong results developing new products/services and / or re-engineering less optimal product offerings (as a team leader and individual contributor)
- Proven success managing complex service offerings, qualifying product opportunities, targeting markets, sales support and designing viable programs, particularly in healthcare industry.
- Strong multifunctional business experience and acumen.
- Excellent team leadership and project management skills.
- Exemplary communication and organization skills.
- High energy, detail oriented and creative individual.
Personal Attributes:
- Strategic business sense as well as ability to execute individually and as part of a team.
- Adept at understanding complex concepts and situations presented by the business environment, and linking strategic direction and day-to-day activities
- Uses new, creative ways to see the market to develop strategies that take advantage of opportunities or trends.
- Quickly assesses complex problems and selects the appropriate solution, ensuring broad strategies are translated into clear objectives and practical action plans
- Possesses very strong consultative skills.
- Strong personal interest in promotion of health and wellness.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. |
