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Optum is a global organization 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.

The Ideation & Growth Portfolio Manager leads reporting, analytics, and performance management for the Coordination of Benefits portfolio and wider Ideation and Growth portfolio, providing insight into initiative performance, savings realization, revenue generation, operational outcomes, and growth modernization efforts. The role is responsible for executive reporting, forecasting, value tracking, portfolio governance, and performance measurement, while partnering with Operations, Finance, Product, Technology, and leadership teams to support strategic decision-making.

A key responsibility of the role is driving modernization across the COB portfolio by advancing automation, AI-enabled capabilities, reporting transformation, and scalable operating models that improve efficiency, accuracy, and speed-to-value. The manager identifies opportunities to streamline processes, reduce manual work, enhance data integration and measurement capabilities, and support the deployment of innovative solutions that strengthen affordability, productivity, growth, and revenue outcomes.

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 or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end Ideation & Growth portfolio for Coordination of Benefits, driving opportunity identification, prioritization, deployment, value realization, and sustained medical cost savings growth
• Lead COB portfolio volume planning and productivity performance, establishing capacity models, operating leverage targets, deployment velocity metrics, and automation adoption goals to maximize value delivery
• Support the measurement, monitoring, and reporting of Non-Clinical ideation and growth initiatives, including tracking value realization, savings, revenue, and volume metrics, and contributing to monthly business reporting, performance analysis, and executive-level updates
• Drive Growth Modernization initiatives by reducing manual effort, increasing automation penetration, improving workflow efficiency, and accelerating idea-to-production cycle times across the portfolio
• Lead identification, evaluation, prioritization, and onboarding of internal and external data assets that enable growth, affordability, leakage detection, and new business opportunities
• Partner with Analytics, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Operations, and Payment Integrity stakeholders to establish scalable data acquisition, enablement, and governance capabilities that maximize business value realization
• Develop business cases, use-case frameworks, and investment recommendations for new data, technology, AI, and innovation opportunities, ensuring alignment to enterprise growth and affordability objectives
• Lead the formulation, prioritization, and deployment of AI, GenAI, machine learning, automation, and agentic workflow use cases that enhance ideation, lead generation, root-cause analysis, governance readiness, deployment monitoring, and portfolio reporting
• Establish and monitor portfolio KPIs including medical cost savings, revenue growth, productivity improvement, automation penetration, volume per resource, deployment velocity, forecast accuracy, and realized business benefit to ensure achievement of growth and operational excellence objectives

You will be rewarded and recognized 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 Healthcare Administration, Business, Finance, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• Proven solid experience in healthcare operations, Payment Integrity, Coordination of Benefits, claims auditing, reporting, or related healthcare functions
• Proven experience leading portfolios and programs, including identifying opportunities, driving value realization, and supporting business growth within healthcare or Payment Integrity environments
• Demonstrated solid analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience with forecasting, productivity metrics, financial performance reporting, and business performance analysis
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver accurate reporting within tight deadlines
• Proven experience utilizing AI, machine learning, analytics, or intelligent automation to enhance operational or analytical processes
• Proven experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, including Operations, Product, Finance, Technology, and business leadership teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience within Payment Integrity, Coordination of Benefits, healthcare payer, or related healthcare environments
• Proven experience leading enterprise portfolios, governance functions, and strategic growth initiatives
• Demonstrated solid financial acumen, including forecasting, business case development, and value realization methodologies
• Proven experience utilizing advanced analytics, AI, machine learning, or automation technologies
• Proven experience supporting healthcare modernization initiatives

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.

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 marginalized 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. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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