Regional Director of Policy - Remote in Western U.S.

UnitedHealth Group•Minnetonka, MN

12h•Remote

About The Position

At UnitedHealthcare, the Regional Director of Policy plays a crucial role in simplifying the health care experience and improving communities by engaging in public policy. This position involves working with health plans, functional partners, and government affairs colleagues to inform the business of emerging policy trends, establish policy positioning, build influence through advocacy and thought leadership, and support sustainable growth. The Regional Director serves as a subject matter expert for health plan and regional CEOs, providing policy expertise and consultation on Medicaid issues. Key responsibilities include tracking policy priorities across multiple states, developing market-specific advocacy plans to support growth through programmatic and RFP opportunities, and creating thought leadership content. The role requires a deep passion for Medicaid policy, strong communication skills for developing policy documents and presentations, and experience speaking with government officials and influential stakeholders. Building internal and external relationships and coalitions is critical, as this individual will bring policy expertise and insights to competitive procurement activities and strategic growth leadership.

Requirements

Experience shaping, creating, and/or analyzing public policy
Experience advocating - either in legislative or other public environment
Experience building coalitions and/or creating other advocacy forums
Medicaid experience
Command of Medicaid policy
Solid PowerPoint and Excel skills
Proven analytical and research expertise
Proven excellent written and verbal communication

Nice To Haves

Experience in state or federal government or within advocacy organizations for Medicaid policy command

Responsibilities

Develop market-specific advocacy plans, including RFP shaping to ensure optimal positioning, enrollment logic shaping to support membership growth, program shaping to improve program design and optimize plan performance, and program shaping in response to defensive needs
Create, in partnership with national policy experts, thought leadership content to support proactive role as trusted advisor, including an annual thought leadership plan that maximizes use of national tools and provides exposure to best practices, differentiated solutions, etc., and ad hoc thought leadership content
Organize and participate in forums with government and regulatory officials to review business activities and potential legislation and program design changes that may affect the organization
Coordinate dissemination of the organization's positioning and thought leadership with state partners, stakeholders through special events, public speaking or other influence means to reach defined audiences
Serve as SME for CEOs as needed to provide policy expertise and be responsive to state and health plan needs, including production of draft RFI content to effectively shape program design and development of ad hoc policy/position documents as needed to support markets
Represent the organization's interests in state meetings and in the development of procurements, program regulations, and program design
Serve as policy expert to inform aspects of growth and sustainable business operations including insights to inform competitive procurement activities, partnering with the Growth Team to influence priorities and influence the team to drive execution, and supporting Influence Team activities by providing policy perspective and priorities
Predict emerging customer (state, health plan and functional partner) needs and develop innovative solutions to meet them
Solve unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business
Participate in the development of business strategy
Develop and manage business plans to achieve objectives
Lead large, complex projects related to policy, advocacy and influence to achieve key business objectives
Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches
Direct cross-functional and/or cross-segment teams