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Lead Optum Health Solutions PMO and enterprise prioritization, drive strategic initiatives and transformation, align Shared Services, manage portfolio governance, resource allocation, cost optimization, and improve execution, accountability, and performance across cross-functional teams.

The ULE Program Associate participates in a two-year rotational leadership program across Optum, UnitedHealthcare, and other enterprise functions. Responsibilities include supporting high-priority initiatives, applying AI-enabled and data-driven approaches to solve business challenges, developing healthcare and business acumen, collaborating with cross-functional teams, building executive relationships, presenting insights, and completing leadership development activities. Participants work in person four days weekly in Minnesota or Washington, D.C., with potential permanent placement after the program.

Leads governance for new health plan implementations, overseeing implementation project managers, client relationships, delivery plans, performance guarantees, escalations, and cross-functional execution. Partners with executives and operational leaders to ensure client satisfaction, resolve issues, support growth initiatives, and develop customized solutions. May contribute to RFP responses and finalist presentations. The role also leads team training and requires substantial experience with health plans, Medicare, Medicaid, exchanges, healthcare implementations, and executive stakeholders.

Leads enterprise Risk Revenue strategy execution across multiple cross-functional workstreams. Responsibilities include portfolio reporting, executive dashboards, governance frameworks, strategic planning, intake prioritization, program management, risk and dependency tracking, operating reviews, and executive communications. The role synthesizes actuarial, analytics, finance, healthcare, and operational information into decision-ready insights, drives accountability and issue resolution, and supports senior leadership across a highly matrixed organization.

Lead complex cardiology implementation projects across clinical, technical, operational, software, quality, and business teams. Develop plans, schedules, scope documentation, and risk mitigations; coordinate interconnected workstreams; manage customer and executive communications; resolve conflicts and dependencies; oversee implementation, integration, release, and deployment activities; and report project status to leadership. Provide guidance to project managers while supporting process improvement and PMO initiatives.

Leads complex technical programs across multiple engineering organizations and Agile Release Trains. Coordinates dependencies, priorities, milestones, release readiness, governance, risks, and cross-functional delivery across product, engineering, architecture, security, infrastructure, and operations. Develops program plans, dashboards, KPIs, and executive communications while driving enterprise initiatives involving resiliency, disaster recovery, compliance, security remediation, and production releases. Promotes Agile continuous improvement, automation, and AI-enabled productivity.

Manage end-to-end technology projects for healthcare clients, including scope definition, planning, timelines, resource allocation, risk mitigation, requirements gathering, stakeholder communication, documentation, compliance, and meeting facilitation. The role coordinates clinical, administrative, and IT teams while delivering projects aligned with healthcare regulations and organizational objectives. It requires Agile project management experience, familiarity with tools such as MS Project or ServiceNow, understanding of IT infrastructure and SDLC, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage onshore client relationships.

Lead and deliver process-improvement projects using Six Sigma methodology across controllership and record-to-report functions. Define scope, manage risks, allocate resources, coordinate vendors, produce project documentation and presentations for senior leadership, and ensure timely, on-budget completion while mentoring teams and facilitating stakeholder meetings.

Owns end-to-end delivery governance for technical workstreams, including timelines, scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, blockers, and stakeholder reporting. Drives delivery improvements through metrics such as velocity, throughput, and defects while coordinating Product, Business Analysis, Engineering, distributed teams, and vendors. Requires strong project management, Agile, planning, risk management, communication, and multitasking skills, along with experience leading IT delivery, data engineering, or analytics programs.

Leads complex cross-functional engineering, automation, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and technology initiatives. Responsibilities include managing scope, dependencies, risks, governance, milestones, KPIs, executive reporting, and issue resolution. The role facilitates Agile, Lean, and continuous improvement practices; coordinates teams and vendors; supports automation, robotics, facility expansion, systems implementation, and operational improvements; and uses analytics to identify bottlenecks and resource constraints.