Senior Analyst, Payer Performance - Remote

Responsibilities

• Influence payer strategies in a fast-paced, performance-focused environment
• Provide quantitative and qualitative interpretation of payer performance to help advance Optum Health goals
• Partner to develop and create data-centric tracking and reporting on key organizational priorities
• Foster relationships with cross-functional partners to solve critical business initiatives
• Proactively identify problems and develop recommended solutions

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience in healthcare operations, strategy, growth, or consulting roles
• Demonstrated problem-solving, analysis, and resolution at strategic and functional levels
• Experience building financial models and translating data into actionable business insights
• Proven critical thinking skills with experience managing multiple priorities and resolving data inconsistencies
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and readiness to take on increasing level of responsibilities
• Ability to be a self-starter with comfort navigating ambiguous situations and problems

Qualifications

• Financial acumen and ability to analyze financial, clinical and/or operational data
• Proven solid Excel skills with ability to build models and analyses to assess business impact
• Ability to convey findings in a cohesive story, including summarizing insights
• Experience building PowerPoint presentations
• Effective management of multiple competing priorities amid a rapidly changing business environment
• Foundational understanding of payer and provider relationships in the healthcare industry, value-based care products and/or the Medicare Advantage landscape

Benefits

Primary responsibilities include developing a data-driven, proactive approach for ongoing assessment of Optum Health's payer performance, evaluating financial impact of payer negotiations, terminations, regulatory changes, or other OH strategic shifts, assisting in source of truth tracking for active payer negotiations and/or terminations, supporting partnership with Finance and Healthcare Economics to ensure consistent modeling, measurement, and reporting, enhancing reporting to improve ability to understand, measure and compare payer performance, anticipating leadership needs, proactively sourcing/packaging data to inform OH POV and strategic decisions, supporting ongoing executive leadership updates and ad-hoc requests, and key contributor to Medicare Advantage Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) reporting & impact analysis.

The position requires an ability to comprehend local markets' strategies while demonstrating awareness of broader systems across the enterprise, both strategically and tactically. Organizational agility will be required - building meaningful relationships and facilitating decision-making to continue achieving Optum Health's value-based care growth agenda.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary responsibilities include developing a data-driven, proactive approach for ongoing assessment of Optum Health's payer performance, evaluating financial impact of payer negotiations, terminations, regulatory changes, or other OH strategic shifts, assisting in source of truth tracking for active payer negotiations and/or terminations, supporting partnership with Finance and Healthcare Economics to ensure consistent modeling, measurement, and reporting, enhancing reporting to improve ability to understand, measure and compare payer performance, anticipating leadership needs, proactively sourcing/packaging data to inform OH POV and strategic decisions, supporting ongoing executive leadership updates and ad-hoc requests, and key contributor to Medicare Advantage Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) reporting & impact analysis.

The position requires an ability to comprehend local markets' strategies while demonstrating awareness of broader systems across the enterprise, both strategically and tactically. Organizational agility will be required - building meaningful relationships and facilitating decision-making to continue achieving Optum Health's value-based care growth agenda.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary responsibilities include developing a data-driven, proactive approach for ongoing assessment of Optum Health's payer performance, evaluating financial impact of payer negotiations, terminations, regulatory changes, or other OH strategic shifts, assisting in source of truth tracking for active payer negotiations and/or terminations, supporting partnership with Finance and Healthcare Economics to ensure consistent modeling, measurement, and reporting, enhancing reporting to improve ability to understand, measure and compare payer performance, anticipating leadership needs, proactively sourcing/packaging data to inform OH POV and strategic decisions, supporting ongoing executive leadership updates and ad-hoc requests, and key contributor to Medicare Advantage Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) reporting & impact analysis.

The position requires an ability to comprehend local markets' strategies while demonstrating awareness of broader systems across the enterprise, both strategically and tactically. Organizational agility will be required - building meaningful relationships and facilitating decision-making to continue achieving Optum Health's value-based care growth agenda.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary responsibilities include developing a data-driven, proactive approach for ongoing assessment of Optum Health's payer performance, evaluating financial impact of payer negotiations, terminations, regulatory changes, or other OH strategic shifts, assisting in source of truth tracking for active payer negotiations and/or terminations, supporting partnership with Finance and Healthcare Economics to ensure consistent modeling, measurement, and reporting, enhancing reporting to improve ability to understand, measure and compare payer performance, anticipating leadership needs, proactively sourcing/packaging data to inform OH POV and strategic decisions, supporting ongoing executive leadership updates and ad-hoc requests, and key contributor to Medicare Advantage Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) reporting & impact analysis.

The position requires an ability to comprehend local markets' strategies while demonstrating awareness of broader systems across the enterprise, both strategically and tactically. Organizational agility will be required - building meaningful relationships and facilitating decision-making to continue achieving Optum Health's value-based care growth agenda.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary responsibilities include developing a data-driven, proactive approach for ongoing assessment of Optum Health's payer performance, evaluating financial impact of payer negotiations, terminations, regulatory changes, or other OH strategic shifts, assisting in source of truth tracking for active payer negotiations and/or terminations, supporting partnership with Finance and Healthcare Economics to ensure consistent modeling, measurement, and reporting, enhancing reporting to improve ability to understand, measure and compare payer performance, anticipating leadership needs, proactively sourcing/packaging data to inform OH POV and strategic decisions, supporting ongoing executive leadership updates and ad-hoc requests, and key contributor to Medicare Advantage Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) reporting & impact analysis.

The position requires an ability to comprehend local markets' strategies while demonstrating awareness of broader systems across the enterprise, both strategically and tactically. Organizational agility will be required - building meaningful relationships and facilitating decision-making to continue achieving Optum Health's value-based care growth agenda.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary responsibilities include developing a data-driven, proactive approach for ongoing assessment of Optum Health's payer performance, evaluating financial impact of payer negotiations, terminations, regulatory changes, or other OH strategic shifts, assisting in source of truth tracking for active payer negotiations and/or terminations, supporting partnership with Finance and Healthcare Economics to ensure consistent modeling, measurement, and reporting, enhancing reporting to improve ability to understand, measure and compare payer performance, anticipating leadership needs, proactively sourcing/packaging data to inform OH POV and strategic decisions, supporting ongoing executive leadership updates and ad-hoc requests, and key contributor to Medicare Advantage Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) reporting & impact analysis.

The position requires an ability to comprehend local markets' strategies while demonstrating awareness of broader systems across the enterprise, both strategically and tactically. Organizational agility will be required - building meaningful relationships and facilitating decision-making to continue achieving Optum Health's value-based care growth agenda.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary responsibilities include developing a data-driven, proactive approach for ongoing assessment of Optum Health's payer performance, evaluating financial impact of payer negotiations, terminations, regulatory changes, or other OH strategic shifts, assisting in source of truth tracking for active payer negotiations and/or terminations, supporting partnership with Finance and Healthcare Economics to ensure consistent modeling, measurement, and reporting, enhancing reporting to improve ability to understand, measure and compare payer performance, anticipating leadership needs, proactively sourcing/packaging data to inform OH POV and strategic decisions, supporting ongoing executive leadership updates and ad-hoc requests, and key contributor to Medicare Advantage Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) reporting & impact analysis.

The position requires an ability to comprehend local markets' strategies while demonstrating awareness of broader systems across the enterprise, both strategically and tactically. Organizational agility will be required - building meaningful relationships and facilitating decision-making to continue achieving Optum Health's value-based care growth agenda.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary responsibilities include developing a data-driven, proactive approach for ongoing assessment of Optum Health's payer performance, evaluating financial impact of payer negotiations, terminations, regulatory changes, or other OH strategic shifts, assisting in source of truth tracking for active payer negotiations and/or terminations, supporting partnership with Finance and Healthcare Economics to ensure consistent modeling, measurement, and reporting, enhancing reporting to improve ability to understand, measure and compare payer performance, anticipating leadership needs, proactively sourcing/packaging data to inform OH POV and strategic decisions, supporting ongoing executive leadership updates and ad-hoc requests, and key contributor to Medicare Advantage Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) reporting & impact analysis.

The position requires an ability to comprehend local markets' strategies while demonstrating awareness of broader systems across the enterprise, both strategically and tactically. Organizational agility will be required - building meaningful relationships and facilitating decision-making to continue achieving Optum Health's value-based care growth agenda.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary responsibilities include developing a data-driven, proactive approach for ongoing assessment of Optum Health's payer performance, evaluating financial impact of payer negotiations, terminations, regulatory changes, or other OH strategic shifts, assisting in source of truth tracking for active payer negotiations and/or terminations, supporting partnership with Finance and Healthcare Economics to ensure consistent modeling, measurement, and reporting, enhancing reporting to improve ability to understand, measure and compare payer performance, anticipating leadership needs, proactively sourcing/packaging data to inform OH POV and strategic decisions, supporting ongoing executive leadership updates and ad-hoc requests, and key contributor to Medicare Advantage Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) reporting & impact analysis.

The position requires an ability to comprehend local markets' strategies while demonstrating awareness of broader systems across the enterprise, both strategically and tactically. Organizational agility will be required - building meaningful relationships and facilitating decision-making to continue achieving Optum Health's value-based care growth agenda.