Life Sciences Strategy Analyst — AI & Data Growth

UnitedHealth Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group, through Optum Life Sciences, seeks a Strategy Analyst to support growth across data assets, AI-enabled solutions, platform modernization, and life sciences commercialization. You will conduct research, synthesize insights, and prepare executive materials while collaborating across functions.

You’ll gain broad exposure to strategic planning, analytics, and business development in a dynamic healthcare data ecosystem, with remote work options within the U.S.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in strategy, market research, business analysis, or related roles.
• Experience conducting research, market assessments, and business-case development.
• Experience producing presentations, reports, and executive summaries.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and coordinate with cross-functional teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Conduct market, industry, competitive, client and business research to support strategic priorities.
• Gather, organize, analyze, and synthesize information into clear findings and actionable insights.
• Support market assessments, competitive analyses, business cases, and value proposition development.
• Prepare presentation decks, executive summaries, meeting materials, and status updates.
• Assist with evaluation of opportunities involving data assets, analytics, AI-enabled solutions, platforms, partnerships, and commercialization.
• Coordinate inputs across strategy, product, technology, data, finance, and operations stakeholders.
• Contribute to multiple concurrent projects and adjust to changing priorities.
• Support reporting, data visualization, and dashboard activities; use AI tools to improve outputs.

Skills

Strategy experience

Market research

Business analysis

Consulting

Cross-functional teamwork

Excel

PowerPoint

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Domo

SQL

Job description

UnitedHealth Group, through Optum Life Sciences, seeks a Strategy Analyst to support growth across data assets, AI-enabled solutions, platform modernization, and life sciences commercialization. You will conduct research, synthesize insights, and prepare executive materials while collaborating across functions.

You’ll gain broad exposure to strategic planning, analytics, and business development in a dynamic healthcare data ecosystem, with remote work options within the U.S.