Dir Pln & Strat - Remote
About The Position
Provides strategic planning, analysis, and execution support across Optum Whole Health Solutions, including Optum Health Solutions and Optum Behavioral Health. The role strengthens proactive strategy development by identifying emerging opportunities, risks, portfolio gaps, and strategic priorities before they become immediate business needs. It leads complex, cross-functional initiatives that need additional structure, analytical rigor, stakeholder alignment, or momentum. The position evaluates portfolio performance, customer needs, payer and regulatory developments, competitive activity, technology trends, and emerging market opportunities to inform business strategy and long-range planning. It develops market assessments, business cases, and build-buy-partner recommendations to guide decisions about investing, growing, maintaining, partnering, outsourcing, de-emphasizing, divesting, or exiting. This role independently leads proactive portfolio analysis, market intelligence, and long-range planning while supporting immediate strategy projects and cross-functional workstreams. It turns ambiguous business questions into clear recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and implementation plans, and works across businesses and functions to resolve barriers and support decisions. The position uses AI to improve research and analysis while validating outputs with human judgment and business context, and operates with substantial independence and limited day-to-day direction. The position may be performed remotely from anywhere in the U.S. Employees hired in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area must work in the office at least four days per week. Remote employees must adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy. Travel may be up to 10%.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, corporate development, strategic finance, private equity, or enterprise strategy.
- Healthcare experience.
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional strategy work from problem definition and analysis through senior-level recommendation.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and drive work from initial framing through completion in a matrixed organization.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.
- Ability to travel up to 10%.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree such as an MBA, MPH, or other relevant advanced degree.
- Reside in Minnesota.
Responsibilities
- Independently lead proactive portfolio analysis, market intelligence, and long-range planning while supporting immediate strategy projects and cross-functional workstreams.
- Structure ambiguous business questions, conduct market research, and convert findings into recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and implementation plans.
- Work across businesses and functions to resolve barriers, accelerate progress, and support decisions through analysis, judgment, communication, and stakeholder influence.
- Use AI to improve the speed and depth of research and analysis, validate outputs, and account for business realities and constraints.
- Identify emerging market opportunities, portfolio gaps, external risks, and strategic questions requiring leadership attention.
- Own complex strategy workstreams from problem definition through analysis, recommendation, stakeholder alignment, and implementation planning.
- Lead or support high-priority initiatives affecting multiple products, capabilities, functions, or businesses across Whole Health Solutions.
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses of markets, customers, competitors, portfolio performance, business models, capabilities, and strategic alternatives.
- Develop business cases and recommendations related to growth, investment, partnerships, acquisitions, outsourcing, portfolio optimization, and other strategic choices.
- Evaluate payer, CMS, reimbursement, regulatory, technology, AI, customer, and competitive developments and translate them into business implications.
- Influence senior and enterprise stakeholders without relying on formal authority.
- Exercise independent judgment and escalate material risks, dependencies, and decisions to appropriate leaders.
- Manage multiple priorities and drive work from initial framing through completion in a matrixed organization.
- Travel up to 10%.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Incentive and recognition programs, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Equity stock purchase, subject to eligibility requirements.
- 401(k) contribution, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Career development opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
