As a Senior Data Analyst within our Total Cost of Care team, you will join our existing Formulary Solutions function with expanded scope.  This new sub-team is responsible for the analytics and performance monitoring of formulary solutions, which includes formulary products, drug exclusion lists, utilisation management, benefit design, critical drug affordability and member disruption.

You will be an important member of a team motivated by innovation, developing solutions that leverage data in new and exciting ways. This is an opportunity to have a significant impact on the healthcare delivery for millions of people, all while doing your life’s best work℠.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and be responsible for innovative analytic solutions around performance monitoring of formulary solutions covering formulary products, drug exclusion lists, utiliation management, critical drug affordability, benefit design and member disruption
• Work as part of a high functioning team with a flat hierarchy to rapidly develop new insights and iterate upon those insights to drive business decisions
• Anticipate issues and proactively develop solutions to address them
• Research, interpret, and analyse diverse and complex data
• Deliver, enhance, and maintain robust and scalable analytic solutions in an automation ready state
• Work closely and collaboratively with other Optum teams and individuals across geographies.
• Efficiently deliver on ad-hoc analysis requests from a wide range of stakeholders
• Participate in the development of analytic and business strategy for the team
• Collaborate with lines of business to understand their analytic needs, contribute to shaping business solutions and communicate results of analytics
• Provide status updates with senior leadership and stakeholders as needed

• Strong experience in SQL and SAS for data manipulation / analysis of large volumes of data from disparate data sources with the ability to error proof the output of analyses
• Quantitative mindset and ability to understand complex processes
• Demonstrated ability to own and deliver projects with strong organisational, time management and problem-solving skills
• Experience building analytic solutions with the mindset for repeatability and scalability
• Ability to visualise, interpret and efficiently communicate data insights using Tableau / Power BI / other visualisation tool

Preferred Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in discipline with strong analytical focus (analytics, mathematics, statistics, engineering etc.)
• Significant experience in delivering predictive and/or prescriptive analytics, including providing actionable insights and recommendations.   This may include designing and implementing analytics projects using R / Python in an industry setting that yield real business value
• Experience in creating rapid prototypes (ETL, Analytics logic and visualisations)
• Aptitude to adapt to new technologies
• Experience with healthcare data

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 

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.