Strategic Advisor - Inland Empire

UnitedHealth Group•Ontario, CA

2h•$96 - $165

About The Position

The Market Advisor, Inland Empire serves as a senior strategic advisor and thought partner to market leadership, helping advance the market’s strategic, clinical, operational, growth, and financial priorities. The role works collaboratively with the Market CEO and physician, clinical, operations, finance, growth, and People leaders to identify opportunities, solve complex business challenges, strengthen alignment, and accelerate execution of key priorities. This role is not the Chief Operating Officer and does not own day-to-day market operations or direct P&L responsibility. Instead, the Market Advisor works through influence and partnership across a highly matrixed organization to improve decision-making, remove barriers, and advance market performance. The successful candidate brings healthcare business acumen, strategic and operational expertise, and the ability to influence senior leaders without relying on formal authority. The position supports strategic decision-making, integrated assessment of market performance, clinical and value-based care priorities, cross-functional initiatives and transformation, market growth, leadership alignment, and organizational effectiveness. Travel within the market may be needed. The role offers development opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements. The hourly pay range is $96.00 to $165.00 based on full-time employment.

Requirements

At least 7 years of progressively responsible leadership experience within healthcare, care delivery, a health plan, value-based care, or a similarly complex environment.
Experience leading or facilitating significant cross-functional strategic initiatives and transformation efforts.
Experience navigating ambiguity and facilitating alignment among leaders with differing priorities.
Demonstrated experience advising senior executives and influencing business outcomes without relying exclusively on direct reporting authority.
Knowledge of healthcare regulatory and compliance considerations.
Solid understanding of healthcare operations, financial performance, clinical delivery, and value-based care.
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively within a complex, highly matrixed organization.
Solid business and financial acumen, including the ability to interpret operational and financial performance indicators.
Strategic thinking, structured problem-solving, and executive-level communication capabilities.
Ability to develop trusted relationships with physician, clinical, operational, and business leaders.
Ability to travel within the market as needed.

Nice To Haves

At least 10 years of healthcare leadership, strategy, operations, consulting, or market leadership experience.
Experience within physician-led or integrated care delivery organizations.
Experience with value-based care, risk-bearing arrangements, affordability, quality, growth, and clinical performance.
Experience supporting significant healthcare transformation or operating-model change.
Experience working across enterprise, regional, and local-market leadership structures.

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted strategic advisor and thought partner to the Market CEO and broader market leadership team.
Provide perspective and recommendations on complex market, operational, clinical, financial, and organizational opportunities.
Translate enterprise and regional strategies into actionable priorities for the Inland Empire market.
Evaluate market trends, performance indicators, competitive dynamics, and emerging business needs to identify opportunities and potential risks.
Facilitate strategic discussions and help leadership evaluate alternatives, trade-offs, and implications of significant market decisions.
Partner with functional leaders to assess market performance across financial, operational, clinical, growth, affordability, quality, and patient/member experience measures.
Identify performance gaps, emerging trends, and opportunities requiring leadership attention; integrate cross-functional information into a market-wide view of performance.
Develop recommendations and facilitate action planning when market performance is not progressing against established goals.
Support the establishment of performance measures, milestones, and mechanisms for monitoring progress.
Collaborate with physician and clinical leadership to advance market clinical priorities while respecting established clinical governance and medical decision-making authority.
Partner with leaders responsible for risk-bearing and value-based care strategies to advance affordability, quality, growth, access, and clinical outcomes.
Connect clinical strategies with operational and business priorities and facilitate cross-functional problem solving when dependencies create barriers to execution.
Advise and support priority market initiatives involving coordination across multiple functions or enterprise capabilities.
Help establish objectives, milestones, accountabilities, dependencies, and success measures for significant market initiatives.
Integrate across functions, helping leaders identify and resolve issues that cross traditional organizational boundaries.
Support transformation and operating-model initiatives intended to improve efficiency, affordability, growth, clinical performance, and organizational effectiveness.
Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve coordination, and leverage enterprise capabilities within the market.
Partner with market and regional leadership to evaluate and advance strategic growth opportunities.
Provide insight on market dynamics, physician partnerships, care delivery capabilities, patient/member needs, and competitive considerations.
Support evaluation of potential partnerships, service expansion, market optimization, and other strategic opportunities.
Help ensure growth strategies consider operational capacity, clinical capabilities, workforce implications, financial performance, and execution risk.
Connect physician, clinical, operations, finance, growth, People, and enterprise leadership.
Facilitate leadership alignment on market priorities, accountabilities, decisions, and execution requirements.
Identify organizational or operating-model barriers to market performance and recommend solutions to accountable leaders.
Partner with market and People leadership on organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, succession, and organizational design considerations, as appropriate.
Promote collaboration, transparency, accountability, and enterprise thinking across the leadership team.