[Remote] Senior Analyst, Payer Performance - Remote
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The Senior Analyst, Payer Performance will play a critical role in proactively managing and identifying remediation and growth opportunities to improve the payer portfolio, influencing strategies and developing data-centric reporting. This position requires collaboration with cross-functional partners and the ability to navigate diverse environments to achieve value-based care growth.
Responsibilities
- Influence payer strategies in a fast-paced, performance-focused environment
- Provide quantitative and qualitative interpretation of payer performance to help advance Optum Health goals
- Partner to develop and create data centric tracking and reporting on key organizational priorities
- Foster relationships with cross-functional partners to solve critical business initiatives
- Proactively identify problems and develop recommended solutions
- Develop a data-driven, proactive approach for ongoing assessment of Optum Health's payer performance
- Evaluate financial impact of payer negotiations, terminations, regulatory changes, or other OH strategic shifts
- Assist in source of truth tracking for active payer negotiations and/or terminations
- Support partnership with Finance and Healthcare Economics to ensure consistent modeling, measurement, and reporting (i.e., scenario modeling and $ impacts, budget vs. actuals, etc.)
- Enhance reporting to improve ability to understand, measure and compare payer performance
- Anticipate leadership needs; proactively source / package data to inform OH POV and strategic decisions
- Support ongoing executive leadership updates and ad-hoc requests
- Key contributor to Medicare Advantage Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) reporting & impact analysis
- Research and inform strategic recommendations around value-based care product positioning
Skills
- 3+ years of relevant experience in healthcare operations, strategy, growth, or consulting roles
- Demonstrated problem solving, analysis, and resolution at strategic and functional levels
- Experience building financial models and translating data into actionable business insights
- Proven critical thinking skills with experience managing multiple priorities and resolving data inconsistencies
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and readiness to take on increasing level of responsibilities
- Ability to be a self-starter with comfort navigating ambiguous situations and problems
- Financial acumen and ability to analyze financial, clinical and/or operational data
- Proven solid Excel skills with ability to build models and analyses to assess business impact
- Ability to convey findings in a cohesive story, including summarizing insights
- Experience building PowerPoint presentations
- Ability to present comfortably to project team and various stakeholders
- Demonstrated solution-oriented thinking in analyzing problems and engaging with teammates
- Ability to effectively manage multiple competing priorities amid a rapidly changing business environment
- Proven foundational understanding of payer and provider relationships in the healthcare industry, value-based care products and/or the Medicare Advantage landscape
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
- Flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S.
- For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.
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