Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a global leader in health care innovation, dedicated to developing cutting-edge solutions to improve health outcomes. As VP Engineering for Utilization Management and Care Management, you will provide strategic leadership to enhance technology systems and processes, ultimately improving patient outcomes and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Develop, communicate, and implement vision and strategy across UM and CM, in support of an integrated, innovative, cost-effective technology suite
- Lead customer engagement and relationship management with key stakeholders, drive decisions that align clinical, business, and technology strategies/plans and enable value
- Coordinate funding and implementation of key initiatives and collaborate to identify benefits and drive ROI
- Identify opportunities for strategic investments and innovative technologies that will drive business improvements and overall growth
- Establish and lead global, diverse technology delivery and support teams
- Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment, develop talent, create high employee experience, support career growth and mobility, and promote a diverse and inclusive culture
- Oversee the development, implementation, and maintenance of technology, establishing multi-year roadmaps for UM and CM for both our UnitedHealthcare and Optum businesses, ensuring optimal utilization of enterprise platforms and capabilities, and on-time delivery of products and services and reliable operations
- Regularly identify and address opportunities that improve capabilities and reduce costs
- Partner with and guide cross-functional teams across the clinical platforms to ensure successful delivery of solutions from concept through launch and successful support
- Identify and assess innovative technologies and applications to determine potential value & promote technology strategies that enhance the organization's performance and competitive advantage
- Ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of technology solutions
- Establish/maintain effective IT vendor relationships to effectively develop, deploy, and support high-quality technology services and contract staffing
- Support business acquisitions by providing leadership in the due-diligence evaluation of IT platforms and post-acquisition integration planning, as well as integrate acquisitions with appropriate support and speed
- Partner with Optum Insight on commercialization opportunities, strategies, roadmaps and investments
Skills
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience
- 15+ years of experience building scalable engineering platforms with a demonstrated history of on time & on budget delivery and execution
- Demonstrated success building and delivering on a cohesive technology vision, strategy, and roadmaps that meet business objectives
- Track record of effective working relationships with cSuite leaders and key business partners to drive change agendas
- Demonstrated strategic thinking abilities and an enterprise-wide perspective
- Experience leading through influence in a large, matrixed, global environment
- Proven track record of success building scalable solutions that support direct to consumer experiences
- Broad technology experience, including complex systems integration and infrastructure expertise
- History of executing with excellence: setting purposeful goals and achieving them through intelligent actions, which balance competing priorities without losing momentum behind execution
- Demonstrated leadership style which fosters accountability, transparent communication and innovation
- Demonstrated high level of emotional intelligence
- Proven outstanding collaboration, influencing, problem solving and negotiation skills
- Proven ability to sell ideas to people outside of your direct team members
- Demonstrated innovative orientation and customer first mindset
- Experience leading global technology teams (through other leaders) of 200+ people
- Healthcare industry experience
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- Utilization Management and Care Management domain knowledge
- Experience delivering AI tools into production environments at scale
- Public cloud platform knowledge
- MBA or Master's degree
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
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