Senior AI Consultant

Taleo; Leinster; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Hybrid work model

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Optum Ireland is seeking a Senior AI Consultant to lead advisory engagements across healthcare clients, applying AI-enabled delivery approaches and strong PMO practices. You will drive cross-functional projects, guide stakeholders, and ensure outcomes align with client value and financial targets.

Key requirements include healthcare project/product management experience, Agile proficiency, and knowledge of AI tools to accelerate insights and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Experience in project or product management in healthcare settings.
• Proven ability to drive process improvements and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Experience managing complex workstreams in client-facing environments.
• Experience working with Agile teams and methodologies.
• Familiarity with CA Agile, Rally, Jira or similar tools.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools to enhance productivity and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business and technology teams to identify issues, objectives and implement solutions.
• Leverage AI enabled tools to support consulting delivery activities and outcomes.
• Advise clients on practical applications of AI to enhance processes and performance.
• Provide work stream oversight, track issue resolution, and make key decisions.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external clients.
• Define, establish and deploy PMO frameworks and best practices.
• Monitor milestones, deliverables, and risks across the project lifecycle.
• Develop risk management plans and escalation strategies.
• Facilitate status updates and reviews with client leadership.
• Provide clear communications and knowledge sharing at all levels.

Skills

Project Management

Product Management

Healthcare domain experience

Agile methodologies

CA Agile / Rally / Jira

AI-enabled tools

Tools

CA Agile

Rally

Jira

Job description

Improve the lives of others while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Job Description - Senior AI Consultant (2390151)

Senior AI Consultant - 2390151

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 AI Senior Consultant is a consulting expert within the Optum Advisory (OA) Ireland Consulting team. This is a rapidly growing business that serves clients across the health care ecosystem. We provide on-demand access to consulting talent with unparalleled experience and combine it with premium customer care and flexible contracting, allowing clients to focus on their core capabilities and create an agile workforce that scales with the demands of their business. OA Ireland consultants combine deep healthcare expertise with AI enabled delivery approaches, leveraging data-driven tools to accelerate insights, improve decision-making, and drive measurable outcomes across complex enterprise initiatives. Engagements are delivered through a range of structured consulting delivery models that are tailored to client needs, scope, and organisational maturity.

Our consultants are engaged to support both internal teams within UnitedHealth Group and external commercial clients in one or more of the following areas:

• AI driven innovation and solution enablement
• Process Transformation
• Project and Program Management
• Business Analysis
• Product Management
• Change Management
• Quality Assurance
• Data Analysis and Reporting
• Training, Learning and Development

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:

• Collaborate with business and technology teams to identify issues, establish objectives, develop recommendations, and implement solutions for our clients
• Leverage AI enabled tools to support and accelerate consulting delivery activities while improving efficiency and outcomes
• Advise clients on practical applications of AI to enhance business processes, digital products, and operational performance
• Provide work stream/project oversight, manage and track issue resolution, and make key decisions for the project with the project sponsor
• Effectively build and maintain relationships with internal and external clients
• Drive outcomes without direct authority, engaging team members in a cross-functional environment
• Define, establish, and deploy Project Management Office (PMO) frameworks, standards, and best practices, leveraging advanced project management tools and artifacts (e.g., Charter/Scope, Integrated Project Plans, Issue logs, Requirements Matrices, Lessons Learned, and portfolio tracking)
• Monitor, manage, and document project milestones, deliverables, and outcomes throughout the project lifecycle, proactively identifying emerging issues and driving appropriate actions to maintain project alignment and momentum
• Develop, communicate, and execute comprehensive project risk and issue management plans, including mitigation and escalation strategies to minimise impact and ensure successful delivery
• Facilitate status updates and review of programs to client leadership and/or project sponsor
• Provide clear communications (oral and written) and share knowledge at all levels of the organisation
• Conduct research studies that may include collecting, analysing, trending, and presenting data and recommendations to management
• Provide coaching and mentoring of project team with the goal of developing talent within the organisation
• Ensure that the engagement performs consistent with expected client value and internal financial targets

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in Project Management, Product Management, or related roles within healthcare environments
• Proven experience driving process improvement initiatives and delivering measurable business outcomes
• Proven experience developing project deliverables and managing complex workstreams within client-facing environments
• Proven experience working within Agile teams and applying Agile methodologies to project delivery
• Demonstrated working knowledge of CA Agile, Rally, Jira, or similar project management and work-tracking tools
• Proven experience leveraging AI-enabled tools, including Generative AI, automation technologies, or advanced analytics platforms, to enhance productivity, decision-making, and deliverables

Preferred Qualifications:

• Agile, Scrum, or related professional certification
• Proven experience working with nationally recognized consulting firms or healthcare payer and provider organizations
• Proven experience across all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Proven experience within digital health or consumer digital products and services
• Proven experience working within large, matrixed organizations
• Proven ability to work effectively within highly technical and fast-paced environments
• Demonstrated solid interpersonal skills

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.

UnitedHealth Group is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or accommodation for any part of the application process, please call 1-866-566-8715 to be connected to Recruitment Services. Recruitment Services hours of operation are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. CT, Monday through Friday.

UnitedHealth Group is a registered service mark of UnitedHealth Group, Inc. The UnitedHealth Group name with the dimensional logo, as well as the dimensional logo alone, are both service marks for the UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.