UnitedHealth Group Hiring for Senior Project Manager – Dublin, Ireland Job at Dublin , Ireland 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 modernizing 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:

You will have the opportunity to directly partner with executive level business champions to identify, evaluate and deploy projects at a national level spanning across multiple business segments, UHC and Optum departments. This is a challenging role that relies on your ability to effectively manage projects and build relationships with stakeholders. Your ability to use various methodologies and tools to collaborate in a cross-matrix environment will drive long term success keeping projects on track within the project scope and timeline.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Lead or help develop project scope statements, in consultation with applicable stakeholders (e.g., program / project charter, Statement of Work, Business Vision Document) for the delivery of key strategic and affordability initiatives.
• Drive strategic initiatives across various functions within the business from inception through post deployment monitoring
• Develop and maintain project plans, tasks, deliverables, dependencies and resource requirements
• Lead coordination and completion of projects across various functional areas
• Provide regular project updates that cover program implementation plans / project risk / issue management plans and strategies (e.g., mitigation, avoidance, transfer, acceptance)
• Establish / apply quality objectives, criteria, standards and levels using appropriate quality management methods, with stakeholder input (e.g., key performance indicators, scope definition)
• Monitor and document project milestones and outcomes throughout the project lifecycle to ensure adherence to established quality standards.
• Monitor and control projects ensuring efficient utilization of project resources
• Provide input into and/or develop relevant policies, procedures, and/or work tools to support new or updated business processes

Required Qualifications:

• Significant Project Management experience
• Proven experience in tracking, planning projects, working with large data sets and making data-driven analytical decisions
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and a demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely to leadership
• Strong communication skill sets, with the ability to support and present information in a variety of different formats to all levels of stakeholders.
• Ability to work a portion of monthly work hours from our Dublin office is required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prince 2 project management qualification OR Project Management Certification PMP
• Previous experience standing up a new business or business change initiative
• Healthcare experience
• Experience working across multiple countries
• Previous experience working within a large multinational matrixed environment
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to prioritize and balance multiple priorities and projects
• Proficiency with MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and SharePoint

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.

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 UnitedHealth Group’s 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.

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