Project Manager

Optum; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum in Ireland is seeking a Senior Project Manager to define, lead, and execute strategic initiatives across the Payment Integrity Value Optimization and Transformation agenda. You will partner with Operations, Technology, Product, Finance, Compliance, and Strategy to turn ambitious goals into measurable outcomes.

This hybrid role offers Dublin/Letterkenny options with home-based telecommuting. You will drive end-to-end delivery, manage cross-functional dependencies, and provide

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in project or program management leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience driving projects from strategy through implementation and delivery.
• Proficiency in project planning, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, priorities, and dependencies simultaneously.
• Proven ability to leverage AI and digital automation tools to enhance project execution and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex projects from initiation through implementation.
• Define project scope, milestones, success metrics, governance structures, and execution strategies.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans aligning teams around objectives and timelines.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies and ensure coordinated execution across workstreams.
• Monitor progress, remove roadblocks, and drive accountability for delivery commitments.
• Build partnerships across business, technology, operations, and supporting functions.
• Facilitate alignment among stakeholders with competing priorities and perspectives.
• Drive decision-making by presenting options, risks, and recommendations.
• Resolve conflicts and navigate ambiguity to maintain momentum.
• Prepare executive-ready communications, status reports, and presentations.
• Translate complex activities into clear business outcomes, risks, and decisions.
• Provide leadership with transparency into progress, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes and governance.
• Contribute to maturation of project management capabilities across the organization.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Risk management

AI/digital automation

Education

PMP certification

Agile/Scrum certification

Tools

AI tools

Job description

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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Project Manager is a senior individual contributor responsible for defining, leading, and executing some of the most important strategic initiatives across Payment Integrity's Value Optimization and Transformation (PIVOT) agenda. These initiatives are complex, highly visible, and critical to evolving the Payment Integrity business in the face of changing provider behaviour and increased use of artificial intelligence (AI).

This role is accountable for both determining how work gets done and driving the work forward. You will partner across Operations, Technology, Product, Finance, Compliance, and Strategy to turn ambitious business goals into measurable outcomes. Success requires a combination of strategic thinking, hands-on execution, resilience, and a willingness to navigate ambiguity, solve difficult problems, and remain focused on achieving meaningful outcomes. This is an opportunity for someone who is motivated by mission-driven work, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and wants to make a meaningful impact.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

What You Will Do

Project Leadership & Execution

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex projects from initiation through implementation
• Define project scope, milestones, success metrics, governance structures, and execution strategies
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans that align teams around shared objectives and timelines
• Manage cross-functional dependencies and ensure coordinated execution across multiple workstreams
• Monitor progress, remove roadblocks, and drive accountability for delivery commitments

Stakeholder Management & Influence

• Build solid partnerships across business, technology, operations, and supporting functions
• Facilitate alignment among stakeholders with competing priorities and perspectives
• Drive decision-making by presenting options, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations
• Resolve conflicts and navigate ambiguity to maintain project momentum

Risk Management & Problem Solving

• Anticipate risks, challenges, and execution gaps before they impact delivery
• Develop mitigation strategies and proactively adjust plans to address changing business needs
• Escalate critical issues appropriately while recommending actionable solutions

Executive Communication & Reporting

• Prepare concise, executive-ready communications, status reports, and presentations
• Translate complex project activities into clear business outcomes, risks, and decisions
• Provide leadership with transparency into progress, dependencies, and trade-offs

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes, governance, and team effectiveness
• Implement best practices that increase efficiency, predictability, and execution excellence
• Contribute to the maturation of project management capabilities across the organization

You will be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

What You Will Bring

• Proven extensive experience in project or program management, leading complex cross-functionale initiatives
• Proven experience driving projects from strategy through implementation and delivery
• Demonstrated proficiency in project planning, risk management, and executive reporting
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders, priorities, and dependencies simultaneously
• Demonstrated solid communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI and digital automation tools to enhance project execution, streamline processes, and improve business outcomes

Other Useful Skills & Qualifications

• PMP, Agile, Scrum, or related project management certification
• Proven experience in Payment Integrity, claims, or other payer operations
• Proven experience leading initiatives within large, matrixed organizations
• Proven experience supporting operational transformation, process improvement, or strategic initiatives
• Proven experience leveraging AI to consolidate information and generate executive-ready reporting

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.