Job: Director, Healthcare Economics - Drive Strategic Analytics & Reporting - Telecommuting
Posted: 05/21/2012
Job Status: Full Time
Job Reference #: 367806
Job Type: Other/General
Jobing Description
The Director, Healthcare Economics will serve as the lead position in a newly expanded Healthcare Economics Department. The role will have responsibility for monthly HCE reports, working with Clinical teams in support of Health Care Quality and Affordability Initiatives (HCQAI), and leading analysis of drivers of trends identified in the Monthly Reserve Close process. The position will strategically plan and direct all aspects of Optum's Healthcare Economics analytic processes. This position will directly manage, or via direction, manage approximately 20 staff; supporting five major lines of business across the country.
Key job responsibilities:
-Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a complicated variety of tasks.
-Leads and directs the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
-We expect this leader to drive to greater staff reporting efficiency over the next 1-2 years via report consolidation and standardization.
-Proven skills in creating collaborative approaches across systems, organizational levels, and intersegment work efforts.
Skills / Requirements
Required:
- Bachelor's degree
-10 years of direct experience in the healthcare industry. Familiar with a variety of the industry's concepts, practices, and procedures.
- Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in a leadership role, specifically a track record in leadership of programs, initiatives and groups of stakeholders towards a common goal.
- Experience in quantitative analyses of utilization and health care cost data
- Demonstrated skill in qualitative and quantitative analysis, presentation, and predictive modeling.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Preferred:
- Advanced degree
- ASA or FSA actuarial designation
OptumHealth is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.
OptumHealth helps nearly 60 million Americans live their lives to the fullest by educating them about their symptoms, conditions and treatments; helping them to navigate the system, finance their health care needs and stay on track with their health goals. No other business touches so many lives in such a positive way. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation & Performance.
At OptumHealth, you will perform within an innovative culture that's focused on transformational change in the health care system. You will leverage your skills across a diverse and multi-faceted business. And you will make contributions that will have an impact that's greater than you've ever imagined.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.
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