Senior Consultant – Healthcare Economics

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. 

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. 

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. As a critical member of our Analytics team, you will help rewrite the future of UnitedHealth Group. You are a thought leader who thrives on developing new solutions to solve tough challenges. Here, your analytical and innovative skills will help us with our mission of helping people live healthier lives. The Senior Consultant – Healthcare Economics will be responsible for identifying and developing data analytics and data strategy solutions. The successful candidate will collaborate cross-functionally with various business and data analytics teams, have proven data modeling, data analysis, and programming experience, and the ability to manage multiple competing projects at one time. 

Schedule: Full-time position with standard working hours of Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm. 

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:

• Design and develop data queries and programs through Python to create data sets and models for analyzing and interpreting key drivers of health care trends (i.e., medical cost, utilization, etc.)
• Build and maintain user friendly and informative dashboards and summarizations that provide actionable insights to stakeholders using relevant data visualization aids
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, manage multiple priorities and deadlines, be detail-oriented and work independently as well as in groups
• Collaborate with stakeholders and internal business partners to understand business requirements and translate them into analytical solutions, using data visualization tools
• Conduct Ad Hoc Analysis and solve complex data issues and provide consultative advice and summarize analytic findings. Present analysis clearly and consistently using various BI tools
• Evaluate gaps in processes and opportunities for automation
• Interpret and analyze clinical data from various sources and recommend best approaches
• Provide ongoing, meaningful, communications to leadership on project status, results and conclusions from analyses
• Migrate processes and analyses from legacy systems to new solutions

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:

• Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in relevant field (data science, analytics, mathematics, economics, business, statistics, engineering, or finance) or equivalent experience
• Intermediate (or higher) level of Proficiency in SQL
• Experience programming statistical models, demonstrate understanding of different statistical methods and approaches
• Experience working with technical and business professionals in a matrix environment
• Experience using data visualization tools such as Power BI, or similar (such as Looker, Tableau/Salesforce, Qlik)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced Degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or related quantitative discipline
• Proficiency in Machine Learning and AI models and algorithms
• Experience in Snowflake
• Ability to work successfully in an ever-changing, priority driven environment
• Experience in medical data including hospital, ancillary, and physician
• Experienced working in a large global and virtual corporate environment
• Intermediate level or higher Proficiency in analytic tools such as R, Python

Soft Skills:

• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and translate complex concepts into practical solutions
• Oral and written communication skills and presentation skills
• People skills, proven ability to work and present effectively with various levels of leadership

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. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

 

 

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