Product Manager - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

14h•$91,700 - $163,700•Remote

About The Position

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Optum Health Solutions is a culture-focused and excellence-driven team dedicated to improving experience across a diverse set of stakeholders. The Optum Health Solutions product team is responsible for optimizing care management capabilities. The candidate will work with strategic business partners across UnitedHealth Group; working heavily with Optum teams across operations, product/benefits, and technology, as well as, UnitedHealthcare clinical leadership. The candidate will need to understand the dynamics of the UHG enterprise and of the external marketplace (including customers, competitors, providers, partners, government sector, and consumers) to create multi-tiered care management solutions. The Product Manager will elevate a baseline of capabilities to improve both individual product and holistic product care management workflow tools across assessing, educating, care planning, and clinical trending. The Product Manager will partner with cross functional leads to innovate care management models based on best practice analytics. Reporting to the Product Director – Care Management Portfolio Modernization this role will work in partnership with business owners of distinct products or programs that make up the medical Optum Health Solutions portfolio to deliver scalable solutions. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. 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.

Requirements

Proven excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
Proven to be self-directed individual with the ability to prioritize one's work
Proven to leverage critical thinking skills to arrive at solutions
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives and achieve goals
Demonstrated ability to work independently and in a team environment in a positive and supportive manner

Nice To Haves

Health care experience
Performance measurement and KPI management
Business requirements gathering and documentation
Reporting and analytics
Project Management / Agile methodologies

Responsibilities

Liaison across analytics, tech, and operations partners to transform performance management
Manage into technology partners to align strategies to optimize clinical data sources for care management products
Identify performance management and clinical data use best practices across products and scale them across the portfolio
Gather and document business, functional, and technical requirements
Works with matrix partners to translate needs into required technology capabilities
Interprets vision and translates into requirements with technology teams
Applies increasing expertise to solve problems: assists others with complex problems, takes a broad business approach, and is a resource to senior leadership
Demonstrate and apply understanding of health care industry trends and their drivers
Conduct current state analysis to gather current business, functional and non-functional requirements and constraints (i.e., "as-is" state)
Document future state using appropriate tools/processes (e.g., "to-be" process maps)
Communicate ongoing updates to all stakeholders to ensure understanding of and alignment with project status/changes
Analyze and balance risk/reward considerations for identified solutions (e.g., options analysis)