Senior Network Pricing Consultant - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•Minnetonka, MN

1d•$91,700 - $163,700•Remote

About The Position

At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and optimized. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, organizing, and producing analyses and reporting that will support the Individual and Family Plan (IFP) initiative. They will also discuss details and insight that follow from this material with internal stakeholders for further action as necessary. Through strategic partnership, this role will leverage internal and external assets to build and maintain actionable financial models to inform business decisions related to the long-term sustainability of IFP business. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. Ability to work Central and Eastern Time Zones 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

5+ years of analytical experience in financial analysis, health care pricing, network management, health care economics or related discipline
5+ years of experience with provider payment methodologies and healthcare products
5+ years of experience in creating and using financial modeling tools, spreadsheets and information acquisition tools
Demonstrated progression of technical expertise related to acquisition of new tools and methodologies
Intermediate level of proficiency in performing financial impact analysis, risk management and data manipulation
Advanced level of proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint
Proven excellent communication, time/project management, problem solving and organization skills
Proven successfully manage expectations
Willing and able to work Eastern Standard Time Zone hours

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of PowerBI

Responsibilities

Financial modeling to support actuarial, financial and utilization analyses related to product and pricing initiatives
Perform various ad hoc projects in a timely and accurate manner
Identify solutions to non-standard requests and problems
Critically evaluate information obtained from multiple sources and reconcile discrepancies
Ensure solid data and process transparency to support methodology integrity and delegation of tasks and responsibilities for department learning opportunities and growth
Demonstrate a customer service mindset
Partner with Healthcare Economics teams, Network Contracting and various stakeholders to understand and distinguish requests from the underlying true need
Proactively anticipate business needs and develop solutions to meet them
Effectively summarize information while providing supporting data to a variety of audiences
Support operational and product partners with strategic insights into financial metrics
Seek opportunities to improve processes and identify areas of improvement specifically related to data reliability, efficiency and quality (implement and scale best practices)
Assist in building, supporting, enhancing and maintaining reports, models and dashboards
Successfully deploy new processes, tools and models to advance modeling capabilities in a changing environment
Establish quality control measures to ensure accuracy and integrity of data used to feed forecasts and metrics to support internal and external stakeholders
Create and maintain applicable project documentation for assigned initiatives