Remote Advisory Senior Director, Strategy & Growth

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum is seeking an Advisory Sr. Director, Strategy and Growth to lead consulting engagements for payer and provider clients, integrating research strategy, operations, and analytics to drive growth and adapt to new payment models.

You’ll manage and mentor diverse teams, steer proposal development, and deliver market insights across Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial programs. Remote-friendly with domestic travel and an office presence required in major markets.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of health care consulting experience, with an emphasis on commercial payer and provider consulting
• 7+ years of experience in either management or strategy consulting
• Experience in designing and delivering market research initiatives, supporting the development contracting and network models for value-based care programs, including MSSP, ACOs, and delegated risk contracts
• Experience in developing business in the Medicaid Managed Care market
• Experience with payer-side population health techniques such as care management, utilization management, prior authorization, and disease management
• Expertise on emerging innovations in contracting and operating models across Medicare, commercial, Medicaid and dual eligible populations
• Proven business development success and consultative sales experience in identifying and recommending new opportunities and initiatives for continual growth with the ability to obtain $2 - $5M in annual sales
• Proven track record of client management and sales
• Ability to travel domestically up to 60% - 80% when required

Responsibilities

• Supporting business development and sales activity across payers and health care providers, with an emphasis on proposal development and selling into the commercial provider and health insurance markets
• Providing day-to-day project leadership with client stakeholders who play a critical role in the client's ability to successfully implement the identified solutions
• Oversee managers, senior consultants and analysts in individual workstreams with responsibility to own, coordinate, and harmonize the overall approach
• Industry expert in value-based contracting methodologies, strategy development, and network design
• Provide ongoing management and mentorship of managers and senior consultants, overseeing career growth and identifying development opportunities for direct reports
• Provide thought leadership and guidance to the practice and broader Optum Advisory constituencies

Skills

Health care consulting

Strategy consulting

Client management

Sales strategy

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum is seeking an Advisory Sr. Director, Strategy and Growth to lead consulting engagements for payer and provider clients, integrating research strategy, operations, and analytics to drive growth and adapt to new payment models.

You’ll manage and mentor diverse teams, steer proposal development, and deliver market insights across Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial programs. Remote-friendly with domestic travel and an office presence required in major markets.