Programme Manager

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. 

Here at Optum, we are looking for a tech focused Programme Manager to come and join us on a permanent basis.

Now is a fantastic time to join us, as you will come in to oversee some of our highest strategic priorities and most crucial programmes that will support us in our vision to become the leading provider of innovative healthcare technology.

Imperative to success in this role, will be your ability to build trusted relationships with your peers, internal stakeholders, and our customers. You will work closely with our Head of Portfolio Delivery to ensure that prioritised workstreams align to strategic business objectives and commercial priorities.

We operate in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, so if this is what you thrive off, then Optum is the place for you!

You will be joining a company where every single person makes an impact on the healthcare industry. We are passionate, innovative, creative, quality driven, talented, and hard-working and we want you to come and be part of our amazing culture.

 

What you’ll doYou will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery and reporting for all programmes and projects within one more programme area. This particularly programme will see you manage multiple features and deliverables, as well as being able to coordinate dependencies, whilst maintaining quality and robustness.

Ensuring that programmes are managed diligently and consistently in accordance with best practice, that defined governance standards are adhered to and data quality is maintained is key.

Collaboration and engagement with sponsors will form a significant part of your role, to define projects objectives and scope, we well as working closely with other departments across Optum to drive programme delivery. We will look to you as Programme Manager to build relationships with customers and support them from pilot to UAT.

 

Other key responsibilities and accountabilities will include; 

• Provide leadership, oversight, and guidance to those within the programme to help them achieve their objectives
• Champion best practice ways of working, through adoption of delivery methodologies and internal processes
• Employ effective quality controls to ensure that risk, issues, assumptions, and dependencies are properly tracked and managed

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. 

Who you’ll be

You will be a Programme Manager who is able to demonstrate significant experience in managing technology projects within an Agile framework, and have an appreciation of the software development lifecycle.

You will pride yourself on your ability to build and maintain great working relationships that allow you to influence, advise and challenge appropriately to ensure the best outcome for the business and customer.

Being able to talk to us about your track record of managing and delivering programmes with multiple project teams and within a matrix management environment is essential.

Technical skills and experience we are looking for you to demonstrate include;

• Experience of using a variety of programme reporting project lifecycle management tools to monitor and report project progress
• Great understanding of agile methodologies
• Ability to work with and manage 3rd parties
• Exposure to working within a complex environment, with competing demands and tight deadlines
• Programme or Portfolio Management qualification e.g., MSP

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 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.

 

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