Senior Medicare Forecasting Actuary Director

UnitedHealthcare; Minnetonka (MN); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase program

401k contribution

Job summary

UnitedHealthcare seeks an actuarial professional to forecast Medicare medical expense trends and identify drivers of health care costs. You will apply advanced analytics to assess utilization patterns, provider dynamics, regulatory changes, and population health factors shaping future medical spending.

You will work remotely anywhere in the U.S., with four in-office days per week for Minneapolis or Washington, D.C.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• ASA or FSA designation.
• 5+ years of actuarial science, data science, predictive analytics, or related quantitative discipline.
• Experience with Medical and/or Pharmacy claims data.
• Advanced proficiency with MS Excel.

Responsibilities

• Develop, conduct, and evaluate studies to understand drivers behind changing health care costs and impact on future medical spending.
• Mentor actuarial talent through delegation, coaching, peer review, cross-training and development opportunities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business questions for analytic investigation (e.g., utilization analysis).
• Support collaboration across Actuarial, FP&A, Healthcare Economics, Pricing, and Reserving teams with cross-LOB collaboration.
• Lead meetings to validate and develop modeling assumptions.
• Design and run complex data programs using SAS, SQL, Excel, Snowflake to extract and analyze data.
• Interpret and disseminate results of modeling analyses with conclusions and recommendations.

Education

Bachelor's degree

ASA/FSA designation

Tools

SAS

SQL

Excel

Snowflake

Job description

UnitedHealthcare seeks an actuarial professional to forecast Medicare medical expense trends and identify drivers of health care costs. You will apply advanced analytics to assess utilization patterns, provider dynamics, regulatory changes, and population health factors shaping future medical spending.

You will work remotely anywhere in the U.S., with four in-office days per week for Minneapolis or Washington, D.C.