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. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as we help advance health equity on a global scale. Here, you will find talented peers, comprehensive benefits, a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, career growth opportunities and your life's best work.(sm)

Growth Partners are leaders on the Growth team responsible for the overall growth and attrition metrics of a geography. Growth Partners collaborate deeply with their Ops partners to integrate centrally developed growth and retention programs while capturing and promoting local needs/nuances. Each Growth Partner has overall responsibility for developing and executing an aggressive member growth and retention strategy for their assigned service area, focused primarily on organic growth in existing and contiguous markets. Using new and established relationships with plans, regional agencies and community liaisons, the position will work directly with IPA and Group leaders to create opportunities for expansion and retention. Will partner closely with marketing on data insights and opportunity sizing.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead initiatives to formulate and execute on AEP/OEP/SEP strategies across geography drive market-leading growth
• Develop and lead a team to support member growth and retention activities in region in alignment with centrally developed strategies
• Collaborate with health plans to develop creative partnerships and market leading growth opportunities
• Collaborate with local marketing teams to implement cohesive community relationships and targeted digital strategies
• Collaborate with Commercial and Senior focused agencies to develop comprehensive regional partnerships
• Collaborate with the regional leaders to support local needs and understand local nuances in support of achieving performance goals
• Strong understanding of and ability to communicate KPIs, strategic initiatives, and work through challenges in the market
• Responsible to effectively communicate the strategy and value to existing market leaders and regional leadership
• Support network design and contracting strategies as needed to support physician alignment with member growth opportunities
• Work closely with IPA and Group Ops leaders to ensure effective collaboration with field teams and to ensure proper training is in place

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of experience in managed health care, with specific experience in sales, account management, and marketing, and/or member services delivery systems
• 5+ years of experience in a leadership role, establishing teams, and creating an environment of accountability and success
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Education: Masters or MBA degree
• Experience working with Salesforce; Smartsheets
  

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Ability to work with all levels of management across all functional levels, as well as business partners in other business entities within a larger organization
• Proven ability to achieve superior results in a performance-oriented environment
• Solid leadership and strategic planning skills within a matrix environment
• Proven customer service orientation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and negotiation skills
• Established positive relationships with healthcare leaders in California to expedite growth
• Solid business acumen and management experience leading results-oriented teams
• Demonstrated problem solving, analysis and resolution at strategic and functional levels
• Ability to deal well with competing priorities and a rapidly changing business environment
• Comfortable with change and ambiguity
  

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.