Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager- Dublin & Letterkenny, Ireland

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.  

As a Fortune 5 business, we’re one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. There are no limits here on the resources you’ll have or the challenges you’ll encounter.   

We have been supporting global healthcare systems from Ireland and the UK for more than 20 years, building a dynamic and diverse team of more than 2,100 talented individuals. With a continued record of growth and stability, we’re on the constant lookout for fresh talent to join our expanding teams. 

About the role:  

As a Senior Product Manager within our Emisar team, you’ll help with developing products for our pharmaceutical /manufacturer partners to meet emerging requirements in advanced analytics through developing key insights using 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. 

 About You: 

You’ve been working your way to this opportunity for some time now. Now that you’ve learned to lead and build a deep product management 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.  

Working Schedule: This is a 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 of the Senior Product Manager:

• Define the vision for the product in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and business partners to understand and anticipate their needs

• Develop, maintain, and oversee delivery of the product roadmap

• Prioritize features/functionality for development based on business need. Manage and communicate the product backlog to all relevant stakeholders

• Translate business need into clearly documented requirements and work with Technical Product Owner/Delivery leads to refine as appropriate

• Work with Business team and Operations team to fully understand and clarify the requirements as appropriate

• In collaboration with Business partners, define and clearly articulate success and acceptance criteria based on a solid understanding and measuring of business value

• Co-ordinate with the Operations team to ensure UAT is completed and signed off adequately ahead of deployments

• Provide approval/sign off for added features, functionality & defect fixes ahead of releases 

• Work with the Operations team to oversee solution rollout 

• Manage issue escalation as appropriate 

• Ensure solution integration, leading business process development as appropriate 

• Regular attendance and engagement at scrum ceremonies for example, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives, backlog review and refinement calls etc. 

• Liaise with leadership, management teams, end-users, and stakeholders, and provide status updates regularly 

• Develop and maintain relevant documentation

• Support general Product Management activities and ad hoc requests as required 

 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 of the Senior Product Manager:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience 

• Product Owner / Management experience in an Agile environment, working with Agile Processes, Principals & Tools 

• Demonstrated experience building roadmaps, managing backlogs, and working with technical development teams to drive delivery

• Experience translating business requirements into Capabilities, Features and User Stories

• Stakeholder management experience, with strong communication skills and an ability to build collaborative relationships with cross-functional teams 

• Experience with User Acceptance Testing and associated activities 

   

• Proficiency with MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote) 

 Preferred Qualifications of the Senior Product Manager:

• Experience with Road mapping and Backlog management tools such as Aha and Rally 

• Experience working on large scale and high impact projects 

• Experience leading process improvement/optimization activities.  

• Process automation experience  

• Ability to quickly build subject matter expertise. 

• Familiarity with the HealthCare industry 

• Technical skills including basic SQL an advantage but not essential 

• Experience working with transactional data in industries such as Healthcare, Financial Services, Banking or Telco 

   

   

  Soft Skills of the Senior Product Manager:

   

   

• Effective leadership, decision making, prioritization and problem-solving skills 

• Ability to work under pressure in a demanding environment and be adaptable to change

   

   

  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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