VP, Provider Partnerships - Execution & Performance

UnitedHealth Group

Minnetonka (MN)

On-site

Confidential

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

UnitedHealth Group's UnitedHealthcare Provider Partnerships team is seeking a Vice President to lead provider partnerships, execution, and performance improvement across Medicaid, Medicare, and Commercial.

You will oversee a ~400-strong organization, translate enterprise priorities into field-ready plans, and partner with Market CEOs and cross-functional leaders to remove barriers and drive value-based care outcomes.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
15+ years of healthcare experience in provider performance, provider engagement, quality improvement, health plan operations, value-based care, network management, or related disciplines.
10+ years of experience leading business/healthcare strategy and execution across multi-disciplinary teams.
Demonstrated success leading provider-facing or field-based organizations and delivering measurable business outcomes at scale.
Experience designing and translating enterprise strategy into execution across complex, matrixed organizations.
Demonstrated success leading organizational transformation, operating model deployment, change management, and large-scale change initiatives.
Solid understanding of provider engagement models, quality performance, provider incentive programs, utilization management, affordability initiatives, Total Cost of Care management, ACO models and value-based care.
Proven ability to influence provider executives, Market CEOs, senior business leaders, and enterprise stakeholders.
Solid strategic planning, organizational leadership, performance management, analytical, and communication capabilities.

Responsibilities

Lead five Regional Vice Presidents and leadership layers for provider partnerships, execution, and performance improvement.
Translate enterprise and market provider engagement strategies into clear operating priorities, execution plans, leadership expectations, and measurable outcomes.
Establish workforce strategies, deployment models, performance routines, and accountability mechanisms that ensure consistent execution across markets, incentive types and lines of business (Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial).
Lead execution of affordability, utilization, and ACO strategies through provider-facing teams, ensuring consistent adoption, accountability, and measurable improvement in Total Cost of Care and utilization outcomes.
Monitor organizational performance, identify execution risks, and ensure regional leaders take timely action to address performance gaps and remove barriers.
Partner across Network, Provider Operations, Clinical, Quality, Product, Technology, Finance, Analytics, Pharmacy, and Market Leadership to identify provider-level, market-level, and systemic barriers impacting quality and utilization performance and lead cross-functional efforts to address root causes, variation in care delivery and affordability performance.
Influence enterprise priorities, investment decisions and operating model through provider Insights, market intelligence, and performance data.
Drive development of enabling technologies, CRM capabilities, reporting tools, standardized templates, SOPs, and workflow practices that support execution.
Ensure provider-facing teams use data, insights, and consultative engagement to drive measurable improvement in provider and member outcomes.
Establish feedback loops between field execution, provider experience, analytics, reporting, and strategy teams to inform ongoing refinement of strategies and tools.
Assess and strengthen organizational capabilities, structure, resource alignment, and field effectiveness to meet current and future business needs.
Scale best practices across markets and reduce unnecessary variation while preserving local flexibility to improve provider adoption, field effectiveness, and performance outcomes.
Strengthen leadership development and employee experience required to support organizational transformation, scale, and long-term business performance.
Champion a culture focused on partnership, performance, inclusion, learning, and continuous improvement.
Build and develop a high-performing leadership team through Regional Vice Presidents, ensuring succession readiness, organizational capability, and leadership consistency across UPP.