Optum Hiring For Director, General Management at Dublin, County Dublin Full Time

Optum, the fast-growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernising the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

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. Join us and do your life’s best work.

As a Director, Credit Risk Modeling, you will be part of a team working at the intersection of financial services and health care to launch new cash flow solutions to drive broader, more equitable access to capital. You will be empowered, supported and encouraged to use your expertise to help change the future of health care. Prior experience leading teams delivering credit risk models or automated underwriting applications is essential. You will work together with a team of engineers and data scientists using your unique blend of business and technical knowledge to bring solutions to life. If you are someone that is energized by solving complex problems and have a do whatever it takes attitude to deliver the best outcome for the customer, this is the position for you. At Optum, you’ll find an organization that will recognize your talents and provide growth opportunities. Join us!

Primary Responsibilities:
Develop and manage end-to-end business critical processes

Build and manage relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including bank Chief Risk Officer and Chief Credit Officer

Effectively lead the team to solve complex problems and develop innovative solutions

Communicate business insights and outcomes; providing recommendations for improvement where applicable

Manage routine progress reporting to Executive level audiences

Apply broad knowledge of domain to optimize choices in architecture and design within the boundaries of applicable regulations

Liaison with banking stakeholders using expertise to drive decisions on model requirements, business rules, and reporting

Develop deep subject matter expertise in the product, business use cases and combine with strong technical aptitude to drive daily and strategic deliverables

Translate changes in healthcare policy, economic environment, political environment and social environment that could impact the product into tangible considerations for application/model changes

Manage R&D activities and records

Maintain compliant model documentation

Ensure change management processes are adhered to for application and supporting models

Perform UAT

Liaison with the Auditors/Regulators

Review work performed by others and provide constructive recommendations for improvement

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:
Prior experience in a financial institution leading credit risk/underwriting modeling teams

Prior experience as the business or executive owner of production applications and models

Prior experience directing R&D activities

Prior experience leading teams of data scientists

Prior experience working with Model Validators, Auditors and Regulators

Expert in stakeholder management, including negotiation and conflict management

Proficient knowledge of US Commercial Lending regulations

Demonstrated ability to define strategic objectives that satisfy the tradeoffs between business, technical, and customer contexts

Demonstrated ability to switch seamlessly between strategic planning activities and contributing hands-on to deliverables

Demonstrated ability to manage time, resource and deliverable scope constraints

Preferred Qualifications:
Proficient knowledge of the US healthcare system and ability to interpret how policy changes at federal and state level could impact the claim payment lifecycle

Familiarity with the US healthcare industry and applicable state and federal legislation

Familiarity with Machine Learning concepts and methodologies

Solid understanding of the software development life cycle and agile development practices

Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.SM

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the Optum Ireland 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.