Principal Data Analyst

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.

As a leader within our Network Pricing team, you’ll help with setting effective drug pricing within our provider networks to meet client and pharmacy contract guarantees through financial and network pricing modeling, analysis and reporting. As you do, you’ll find that you can make a real impact while enjoying the resources, backing and opportunities that you’d expect from a Fortune 6 leader.

As a leader within our Network Strategy team, you will play a key role in analyzing and optimizing pricing strategies across our provider networks. By leveraging data insights and market trends, you’ll develop innovative solutions to enhance member experience and drive improved financial performance. Your work will involve collaboration with stakeholders, creating actionable strategies, and supporting implementation to achieve measurable outcomes.

Ready for a challenge? You will need all your leadership skills and creativity as you manage and develop provider networks that achieve performance objectives. As a result, there is a high level of visibility and accountability for results.

You’ve been working your way to this opportunity for some time now. Now that you’ve learned to lead and build a deep analytics expertise, it is time to set your sights on having an impact in more ways. Join our leadership team and help UnitedHealth Group meet the challenge of shaping where health care will go.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ideate and conceptualize innovative solutions, critically analyze challenges, test hypotheses, and provide data-driven insights to inform key business decisions
• Undertake complex pricing analyses and develop business cases for innovative pricing products
• Collate internal and external market data and prepare trend reports to identify inefficiencies in how the network is currently priced
• Engage with key stakeholders across the business on formulating strategies to support the financial goals of new productsaddress these inefficiencies, developing business cases weighing out pros-and-cons and laying out steps to implementation
• Present to SLT and support ELT level presentations on financial strategies for new products
• Ensure success of new products by liaising with ops and pricing teams to ensure intended strategies are followed once these products go liveCollate playbook of optimal pricing strategies for different scenarios to support the business in effective implementation and maintenance
• Support development and tracking of network performance KPI’s to quantify impact of different strategies following implementation
• Thoroughly learn the business and educate those around you, both on your team and more broadly, on the mechanics of network pricing and the PBM business model

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:

• Experience in business focused analytical roles (e.g. finance, business analysis, data analytics)
• Experience leading projects autonomously
• Intermediate SQL with experience querying large volumes of transactional data
• Experience working with visualization software such as Tableau and/or PowerBI
• Experience in MS Office, including proficiency with MS Excel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience communicating and presenting complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Undergraduate degree in a numerical subject (e.g. Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, or Economics)
• Intermediate Python experience in data manipulation and analysis
• Experience with Azure Databricks & the Azure Ecosystem
• Experience working in industries such as Healthcare, Financial Services, Banking or Telco

Soft Skill:

• Strong communication skills, able to work with stakeholders from multiple levels and disciplines

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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