Director of Actuarial Pricing

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.

What makes your Actuarial career greater with UnitedHealth Group? Actuaries are the decision-making engine for our business, that is why we support you from day one. We offer a competitive study program with paid time off to study, expense reimbursement for study materials and pay raises for passing exams. Advancement, access to data, variety of product lines, and rewards for delivering on our mission ensures you will always be challenged to do your best. Our businesses serve the entire spectrum of health care participants: individual consumers and employers, commercial payers and intermediaries, physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and more, providing you with a career that is challenging, exciting, and integral in helping to write the history of our organization.

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, enhance, and maintain actuarial pricing, rating, and compliance tools that support UHC new business and renewal workflows across medical and supplemental health products
• Support and modernize actuarial studies and pricing analyses by improving data pipelines, model inputs and outputs, and system integrations to enable faster, repeatable, and reproducible results
• Analyze claims experience and financial performance to inform actuarial studies, model assumptions, and structural improvements to pricing and risk assessment methodologies
• Develop and implement predictive and analytical models to support forecasting of claim events, persistency, and experience trends used in pricing and compliance tools
• Partner closely with underwriting, product, actuarial, and technology stakeholders to translate actuarial requirements into durable, well governed tool capabilities rather than ad hoc processes
• Strengthen governance, controls, and auditability by embedding validation checks, documentation standards, and traceability directly into pricing and compliance tools and analyses
• Collaborate with US and Irish leadership to ensure objectives are met and to support the evolution of actuarial analytics and tooling capabilities over time

Additional Responsibilities:

• Evaluate industry trends and external context to inform actuarial analytics, pricing assumptions, and tool evolution
• Mentor and support actuarial staff, and collaborate with actuaries and partners across teams and geographies
• Contribute actuarial and analytical expertise to initiatives spanning medical and ancillary products, with a focus on shared platforms and consistent methodologies
• Support modernization initiatives through process improvement, analytics automation, and enhancement of actuarial tools and workflows
• Coordinate with interdisciplinary teams to strengthen and evolve enterprise risk management and pricing governance practices
• Support senior management with actuarial and technical input on strategic initiatives as needed

Your leadership skills will be exercised in shaping how actuarial pricing and compliance capabilities scale and remain reliable across the organization. Senior management will rely on your actuarial judgment and technical leadership to help drive consistent, transparent, and well‑governed pricing outcomes, as well as to support the development and mentoring of actuarial talent as needed.

Join at an exciting time as we set up a new team in Ireland supporting UHC new business and renewal pricing. 

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Fellow of Society of Actuaries (Ireland/UK, US), or near Fellow designation
• Proven solid actuarial pricing experience in health insurance or related benefits field, including support of pricing, studies, or compliance activities
• Demonstrable knowledge of health insurance underwriting and rating concepts, including experience analysis and risk selection methodologies
• Proven experience working closely with underwriting and actuarial stakeholders to support pricing or analytical outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to translate actuarial requirements into analytical, technical, or tooling solutions used by broader teams
• Proven ability to be comfortable operating in a complex, matrixed environment and providing actuarial leadership without direct ownership of market pricing decisions
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience working with healthcare claims data and financial experience analysis, including understanding of costs, expected claims, and benefit pricing
• Demonstrable experience mentoring actuarial students, providing technical or analytical leadership within a team
• Demonstrated predictive analytics capabilities, such as machine learning 
• Proven data management skills using SQL or similar environments 
• Demonstrable programming experience in R, Python or similar languages used in analytical workflows
• Proven data visualization skills in Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools
• Proven experience supporting or contributing to actuarial pricing, analytics, or compliance platforms or system modernization efforts

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.  

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.


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. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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