Senior Director VBC Consolidation & Planning - MN
About The Position
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The company is part of UnitedHealth Group and combines data, technology, and clinical expertise to deliver more effective, affordable, and equitable care. Optum Health is a clinician-led, value-based care organization focused on improving patient outcomes, advancing care delivery, and simplifying the health care experience, partnering with physicians, health systems, employers, and communities. As a strategic leader, the Senior Director of Value-Based Care (VBC) Consolidations & Planning will play a central role in strengthening VBC financial governance, supporting external margin commitments, and enabling the broader VBC Strategy & Analytics operating model. This critical leadership role is responsible for establishing single-point accountability for enterprise VBC financial consolidation, benefit planning, and forecasting across risk models, reporting constructs, and delegated pricing arrangements, ensuring consistent, decision-ready P&L views for executive leadership and UnitedHealthcare (UHC) partners during plan, forecast, and earnings cycles, especially as VBC scale and regulatory complexity increase.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- 12+ years of progressive experience in healthcare finance, FP&A, actuarial finance, or value-based care economics
- 5+ years leadership experience (direct or indirect reporting relationships)
- Deep expertise in value-based care financial models, risk arrangements, and provider economics
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise financial consolidation, planning, and forecasting processes
- Solid understanding of Medicare Advantage and delegated pricing dynamics
- Demonstrated leadership and hands-on experience, solid leader and motivator with the ability to develop talent within the organization
- Ability to drive alignment and accountability across multiple teams and stakeholders
- Demonstrated planning, project management and communication skills. Accurately scopes out projects, sets objectives and goals, develops schedules and resource assignments, measures performance against goals, and evaluates results
- Ability to deal with ambiguity - can cope with change and comfortably handles risk and uncertainty in a manner consistent with UnitedHealth Group’s core values
- Experience within large, matrix organizations with demonstrated business results
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree (MBA, MHA, MPH) or advanced degree / certification
- UnitedHealth Group experience
- Experience supporting earnings cycles, external reporting, or Board-level communication
- Familiarity with CMS and other regulatory frameworks impacting value-based care performance
- Prior experience leading large-scale financial remediation or performance improvement initiatives
- Ability to work independently and effectively in a results-oriented, fast-paced environment
- Ability to synthesize complex information to drive decision-making
- Excellent communication skills; ability to independently produce written communication for executive leaders
Responsibilities
- Own enterprise-wide VBC financial consolidation, ensuring consistent and accurate P&L views across risk models, reporting constructs, and lines of business
- Lead VBC benefit planning and multi-year forecasting in support of plan, forecast, and earnings cycles, including alignment to external margin commitments
- Serve as the primary finance partner supporting UnitedHealthcare delegated pricing, ensuring alignment between provider economics, plan assumptions, and enterprise financial targets
- Establish and maintain disciplined governance, controls, and standard methodologies for VBC financial reporting, forecasting, and performance measurement
- Coordinate financial oversight and execution tracking for more than $2B in VBC remediation initiatives, partnering closely with strategy, operations, actuarial, and clinical leaders
- Translate complex regulatory, pricing, and performance dynamics into clear, consistent executive and Board-level financial narratives
- Anticipate and proactively mitigate execution risk during high-impact cycles by driving alignment across finance, actuarial, strategy, and operational stakeholders
- Support the maturation of the VBC Strategy & Analytics operating model by enabling scalable planning, reporting, and decision-support capabilities
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits package
- incentive and recognition programs
- equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
