Senior Director Data Analytics

UnitedHealth Group; Dublin; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Optum Ireland is seeking a Senior Director, Analytics to lead the development and execution of enterprise analytics and insight-generation capabilities that enable data-driven decision making across Optum Rx. This role defines analytics strategy and delivers scalable analytics solutions that drive performance, efficiency, revenue growth, and client value.

The ideal candidate brings strategic leadership in analytics, AI, and technology to a complex organization, with a track record of partnering

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in analytics, transformation, or strategy.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive change within a matrix organization.
• Experience partnering with business, technology, analytics, and product teams.
• Strong communication skills across all levels of a large organization.
• Experience building business cases, operating models, and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise analytics strategy and scalable insights across Optum Rx.
• Partner with executives to align analytics investments with strategic priorities.
• Champion AI-enabled analytics and continuous improvement.
• Build a high-performing, multi-team organization delivering BI and analytics.
• Govern governance, prioritization, and performance tracking for value-led outcomes.

Skills

Executive leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Data-driven decision making

AI/analytics strategy

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.

About the Team:

The Rx Data Strategy & Analytics organization enables data-driven decision-making across Optum Rx and operates within the Ireland Analytics organization. They partner with business, operations, clinical, finance, and technology leaders to deliver trusted data, actionable insights, and scalable analytics solutions that improve business performance, operational efficiency, and client outcomes.

The organization leads enterprise data strategy, governance, analytics, AI, and data management initiatives, ensuring data is treated as a strategic asset. By combining deep business knowledge with advanced analytics capabilities, the team helps drive innovation, informed decision-making, and measurable business value across the enterprise.

About the Role:

The Senior Director, Analytics leads the development and execution of enterprise analytics, and insight-generation capabilities that enable data-driven decision making across Optum Rx. This role is responsible for defining analytics strategy, and delivering scalable analytics solutions that drive business performance, operational efficiency, revenue growth, and client value. Working closely with executive and functional leaders across business, operations, finance, clinical, technology, formulary, and rebate organizations, the role ensures analytics investments are aligned to strategic priorities and measurable outcomes. The position champions trusted data, advanced analytics, AI-enabled insights, and continuous improvement while leading high-performing teams responsible for transforming complex data into actionable business intelligence.

The ideal candidate is a strategic analytics leader with experience using data, analytics, AI, and technology to drive business outcomes in a complex organization.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

Analytics Strategy, Solutions & Insights

• Partner with business leaders to deliver analytics insights aligned to strategic priorities across Clinical, Formulary, Finance, Rebates, and Product, while expanding the team's remit to additional domains
• Identify opportunities to apply analytics, AI, and automation across business domains to generate enterprise-level PBM impact
• Advance the strategic agenda to evolve the team into an AI-native analytics organization

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as the primary liaison for business domains supported by the current analytics team, while proactively identifying opportunities to expand analytics support across the PBM domains
• Partner across Data Strategy & Analytics teams and capabilities to ensure a coordinated, holistic approach that delivers exceptional business outcomes
• Build solid relationships with technology leaders and teams to support integrated delivery of analytics and AI solutions

Operational Excellence

• Establish governance, prioritization, and performance tracking processes that focus team efforts on the highest-value business outcomes
• Drive automation, standardization, and continuous improvement across analytics teams
• Ensure analytics capabilities are scalable, sustainable, and adaptable to changing business needsMaintain compliance with privacy, security, and regulatory requirements

AI & Innovation

• Champion AI-enabled analytics that deliver intelligent, proactive, and high-impact insights
• Support the PBM AI-native vision, strategy, and roadmap by identifying opportunities to collaborate and expand our capabilities
• Identify technology-enabled opportunities to strengthen decision support and improve operational effectiveness
• Promote responsible, effective use of AI and enterprise data assets

People Leadership

• Lead a multifaceted team-of-teams with a servant leadership mindset, fostering high performance, engagement, and employee development
• Build a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous learning
• Coach leaders and strengthen organizational capabilities to support future growth

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:

• Proven significant leadership experience in analytics, operations, transformation, strategy, technology, healthcare, or related disciplines
• Demonstrated solid executive presence, with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive organizational change
• Proven ability to thrive within highly matrixed environments and partner across business, technology, analytics, and product teams to deliver complex initiatives
• Demonstrated solid leadership skills, a bias for action, and the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of a large, complex organization
• Proven experience developing business cases, operating models, organizational capabilities, and strategic roadmaps
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of analytics, artificial intelligence, automation, emerging technologies, and industry trends
• Demonstrated sound judgment, with the ability to distinguish critical priorities from competing demands and operate effectively within ambiguous environments
• Proven ability to synthesize large volumes of information and translate insights into actionable business decisions
• Proven track record delivering large-scale analytics, business intelligence, technology, or transformation initiatives
• Demonstrated attention to detail
• Proven experience managing scope, resources, timelines, and budgets
• Demonstrated solid relationship-building skills across all organizational levels

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.

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