Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a global organization that delivers care aided by technology to help people live healthier lives. Optum Life Sciences is seeking an Associate Director, Strategic Planning & Operations to operationalize enterprise and business strategy through planning cycles, operating rhythms, leadership reporting, governance, and execution tracking across cross-functional stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Support annual business planning, long-range planning, strategic priority setting, and related enterprise planning activities for Optum Life Sciences
- Establish, manage, and continuously improve operating rhythms, including monthly business reviews, annual business planning, forecasting reviews, executive reviews, and strategic planning cycles
- Translate enterprise and business priorities into actionable plans, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and success measures
- Collect, organize, validate, and synthesize business updates from cross-functional stakeholders for leadership review and decision-making
- Develop executive-ready presentations, strategy updates, initiative readouts, status reports, planning documents, and decision materials
- Track progress across strategic initiatives and identify risks, gaps, dependencies, trade-offs, and items requiring escalation
- Establish and maintain governance practices that improve accountability, transparency, decision quality, and execution discipline
- Coordinate across strategy, product, technology, data, commercial, finance, operations, and other Optum and UHG stakeholders
- Support KPI definition, MBO tracking, organizational performance reporting, and leadership visibility into strategic commitments and business outcomes
- Build and maintain practical planning tools, trackers, reporting views, and dashboards as needed to support operating decisions
- Identify opportunities to improve planning, reporting, documentation, governance, and cross-functional coordination processes
- Use enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, strengthen synthesis and reporting, improve work products, and support continuous improvement
- Apply AI responsibly in accordance with applicable data privacy, security, confidentiality, and approved-tool requirements
Skills
- • 7+ years of experience in strategic planning, strategy execution, business operations, enterprise planning, program management, management consulting, healthcare, data, technology, or a related function
- • Experience translating enterprise or business priorities into execution plans, governance processes, performance-management activities, or recurring operating rhythms
- • Experience in life sciences, healthcare, healthcare technology, healthcare data, analytics, provider organizations, or closely related healthcare markets
- • Experience supporting and managing planning and reporting cycles, including monthly business reviews (MBRs), annual business planning (ABP), strategic planning cycles, forecasting reviews, executive reviews, and organizational reporting processes
- • Experience driving execution of complex, cross-functional initiatives with documented governance, milestones, risks, dependencies, and accountability
- • Experience coordinating priorities and stakeholders across multiple business functions in a matrixed organization
- • Experience developing leadership presentations, reporting packages, planning documents, business updates, or executive briefing materials
- • Experience influencing stakeholders and driving follow-through without direct authority
- • Experience creating, maintaining, and utilizing reporting dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, Domo, or comparable business intelligence platforms to support business planning, performance management, and executive reporting
- • Experience supporting a CEO, business president, senior executive, or enterprise leadership team with planning and reporting needs
- • Experience with KPI development, MBO tracking, initiative governance, portfolio reporting, or performance management
- • Experience improving operating rhythms, governance processes, reporting practices, or cross-functional planning workflows
- • Experience working in a large enterprise with multiple business units and senior stakeholders
- • Experience using enterprise-approved AI tools to support planning, analysis, synthesis, reporting, documentation, or productivity
- • Proven written and verbal communication skills demonstrated through executive materials, business reviews, planning updates, or cross-functional coordination
- • All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
- Flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S.
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
- Career development opportunities
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