UnitedHealth Group Hiring for Principal Data Scientist Job at Dublin , Ireland Full Time

As the largest health insurance payer in the United States, and as one of the largest healthcare services providers, UnitedHealth Group provides a professional culture where you’re empowered and encouraged to exceed the expectations of our members, while making a tangible impact on the healthcare ecosystem. Join us and start doing your life’s best work.(sm)

The Associate Director (Principal Data Scientist) will partner with Pharmacy business units to build strong relationships and provide analytical subject matter expertise to collaborate on opportunities while leveraging and optimising both internal and external organisational data. The successful candidate will contribute to creating and maintaining clear, strategic vision and a plan for bringing actionable, innovative analytic solutions to market.

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 office and telecommuting from a home-based office.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Direct and implement analytic activities to support decision-making for UnitedHealthcare Pharmacy.
• Collaborate with different lines of business to understand their analytic needs, propose & deliver business solutions and drive change.
• Anticipate customer needs, proactively develop & deliver solutions to meet them, and forecast/predict the impact of business strategies.
• Implement process improvement initiatives and automation for efficiency where appropriate.
• Research, interpret, and analyse diverse and complex data and communicate findings to influence the business direction.
• Utilise a broad range of analytic approaches including predictive analytics, issue detection, trend analysis, and data visualisation to best address the business priorities.

Requirements:

• Degree Qualified (BA, BS) in relevant field (analytics, mathematics, economics, business, statistics, engineering, or finance) or equivalent experience
• Significant experience in data analytics or data science, ideally with experience working with financial or healthcare-related data (e.g. pharmaceuticals, medical claims).
• Proficient in researching, interpreting, and analysing diverse and complex data.
• Extensive data manipulation skills across structured and unstructured sources/repositories such as relational and non-relational databases, CSV’s, API’s, text, Excel, etc.
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language such as R or Python.
• Demonstrated effective project ownership, management, drive & delivery
• Stakeholder management experience, dealing with multiple stakeholders, and forming effective partnerships.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to strategically consult with the business.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely in writing and orally to individuals and groups
• The ability to work a portion of monthly work hours from our Dublin office is required.

Desired:

• Proficiency in a visualisation tool like Excel, Tableau, PowerBI or QlikView/QlikSense etc.
• Experience or knowledge with cloud-based data analytics e.g. (AWS, Azure, Snowflake)
• Masters and/or PhD in Finance, Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, Econometrics, or other relevant field of study

• Experience in healthcare industry, either from a pharmaceutical background or consulting firm

Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organisation 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)

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 Optum Ireland Telecommuter Policy.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.