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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with financial forecasting
• Knowledge of best practices for optimization and prediction model development
  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. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in advanced analytics, data science, finance, economics, mathematics or a related field
• Programming experience with Python and SQL
• Experience as a people manager
• Experience with data analysis and problem solving
• Experience with forecasting and delivering report

ABOUT THE ROLE:

In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum.
As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.
You will join a team of data scientists and data analysts who are responsible for building the pricing engine on our pricing platform. We build the algorithms that find the optimal combination of prices to achieve multiple targets, given multiple constraints and uncertain future outcomes. We are accountable to build pricing in one of the most complex areas of UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest companies in the world. We bring initiative, innovative thinking and curiosity to constantly evolve in a changing regulatory and competitive environment. The changes we make impacts the prices on over 150 million prescriptions in the US market annually.
As a Senior Manager Data Science, you will lead a team of data scientists that will be primarily responsible for financial forecasting and value measurement and have a secondary responsibility of contributing to the development of our pricing engine. You will be supporting your team in analyzing data, problem solving with the wider team, researching, prototyping solutions, building data pipelines, producing visuals, utilizing and augmenting the pricing engine prediction logic, developing pricing engine logic, and reporting out. You will be acting primarily in a management role. Your will do technical work when required to support your team. You are someone that has strong management and forecasting experience.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead a team of data scientists; ensuring they are engaged and orientated towards our goals
• Ensure the team delivers on financial forecasts, forecast error measurement, and value tracking metrics.
• Ensure the team delivers on changes to our pricing engine logic to support adding more pricing to our platform and improving the pricing outcomes.
• Support your team in their technical work and occasionally be involved in technical work
• Ensure the quality of the outputs produced by you and the team
• Communicate to leadership and advocate for your team
• Collaborate with the team and partners to solve problems
• Lead technical and procedural changes needed
• Work independently and with focus when needed
• Work within the solution delivery methods and standards set out
  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:

• Undergraduate degree in advanced analytics, data science, finance, economics, mathematics or a related field
• Programming experience with Python and SQL
• Experience as a people manager
• Experience with data analysis and problem solving
• Experience with forecasting and delivering reports