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UnitedHealth Group Associate Director Business Process in Letterkenny Ulster, Ireland
Optum is a global organisation that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
About the Role:
At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.
Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.
The Associate Director of Business Process role forms part of the Submissions & Supplemental Data team nested in the Clinical Solutions Data Ops workstream. The team drives global execution of scaled data processes required to deliver risk adjustment and quality services. The Associate Director of Business Process oversees, coordinates, and ensures team execution of CMS, HHS and Medicaid state risk adjustment submissions as well as ensure agreed upon service levels are maintained. The role will drive timely issue resolution across a portfolio of over 50 clients and advance integration of capabilities across acquired entities, driving modernization in infrastructure, and enabling defect reduction. This role will also be accountable for a set of key client success metrics related data throughput and acceptance rates.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities of the Associate Director of Business Process:
Provide senior leadership to an operations team around the execution of encounter operations processes
Drive continuous improvement of existing processes as well as develop new processes to meet emerging business needs
Work collaboratively across a broad spectrum of business partners to ensure flawless execution across the full E2E spectrum of encounter operations processes and objectives
Build and maintain productive relationships with key business partners
Develop team members to drive individual skill enrichment with a focus on the key success factors for encounter operations processes
You will be rewarded and recognised 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications of the Associate Director of Business Process:
Undergraduate degree from an accredited college/university
Operations leadership experience including team management
Exceptional technical skills related to data mining, data analytics, development of process metrics and scorecards
Preferred Qualifications of the Associate Director of Business Process:
Relevant work experience in strategy, management consulting, product or general management in a health care related field
Experience in risk adjustment data processing and CMS submission regulations
Solid knowledge of healthcare related data including diagnosis and CPT structures
Superior conceptual, analytical and financial modeling skills as well as critical thinking
Solid history of quickly gaining credibility, partnering with business leaders and exhibiting executive presence
Ability to champion continuous change, consult with versatility, exhibit personal leadership and model a customer orientation
Ability to effectively drive results in a dynamic, matrixed environment with a high degree of organizational change, growth and ambiguity
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
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 marginalised 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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2023 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
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