Associate Director C&S Product Dental, Vision & Hearing - Remote - 2280262

UnitedHealth Group; Minnetonka (MN); Remote; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company is seeking an Associate Director for Dental, Vision, and Hearing. This role involves creating strategies for sustainable growth and managing vendor relationships, while working remotely from anywhere in the U.S. Ideal candidates will have extensive product management experience and strong leadership skills.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Incentive and recognition programs

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product development/management and/or Medicaid expertise.
• Experience in leading complicated, cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities

• Continuously monitor external market and competitive landscape.
• Build a product performance process and product road map.
• Own vendor management and establish requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Problem Solving

Analytical Skills

Job description

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 equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Associate Director for Dental, Vision, and Hearing is responsible for creating and executing a strategy that is designed to drive sustainable growth by not only meeting the expectations of our members and state customers but by delighting and driving competitive differentiation. The vision is that our ancillary benefits are developed, launched, and continuously refined using our robust data, customer feedback and enterprise capabilities. This leader will also develop and maintain an explicit view of our strategy around enterprise partnerships including both internal and external partners.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Continuously monitor external market / competitive landscape including understanding proposal trends, industry news/updates, and state trends
• Build a product performance process that includes reviewing and responding to utilization, consumer experience, and return on investment
• Build a product road map and work with cross-functional partners to drive delivery
• Own vendor management including establishing requirements, day-to-day management, and monitoring performance
• Work with marketing and distribution teams to create and maintain sales content
• Craft and maintain language for proposal ingestion ensuring best-in-class language and proof points are available
• Refine the comprehensive ancillary management strategy by actively incorporating data and insights into our go-forward strategic plan

You’ll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in product development/management and/or Medicaid expertise
• Healthcare Industry experience
• Experience in leading complicated, cross-functional projects
• Experience in complex, matrix organizations; knows how to get things done both through formal channels and the informal network
• Demonstrated leadership ability with cross-functional teams and consensus builder
• Demonstrated good negotiation, problem solving, planning and decision-making skills; accurately scopes out projects, sets objectives and goals, develops schedules and resource assignments, measures performance against goals, and evaluates results
• Ability to manage projects simultaneously and achieve goals; uses resources effectively and efficiently
• Solid analytical skills; demonstrates ability to use data to drive action

Preferred Qualifications:

• Medicaid expertise and knowledge of health plan management (network, operations, clinical)

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

The salary range for this role is $106,800 to $194,200 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with al minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

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