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.
About the Role
As our Principal Data Analyst, you will join a newly established team within OptumRx responsible for delivering a Pharmacy Centre of Excellence. You will provide analytics and insights related to primary revenue drivers as well as supporting process improvements across the 5 Optum owned pharmacy network. You will also have the opportunity to develop new data products for external customers.
Within the role, you will build relationships with our partners across many functions, including Supply Chain, Finance, Network Relations and Clinical.
We’re looking for someone with a quantitative mindset, an aptitude for complex problem solving and process improvement with well-developed communication and technical skills.
Primary Responsibilities:
1. Lead projects and segment teams, review work performed by others, and recommend improvements while motivating and mentoring team members.
2. Develop new concepts, technologies, and products to meet emerging business requirements to support data and service product programs, contracting, sales, and invoicing.
3. Utilize analytical skills to understand complex problems, break them down into manageable components, and apply analytical techniques to find solutions.
4. Drive solutions for both internal and external customers.
5. Consult with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure appropriate business content is incorporated into analytic approaches. Anticipate stakeholder needs and proactively develop solutions to meet them.
6. Perform complex conceptual analyses and deliver well-engineered, scalable data products to support integrated analytics and reporting.
7. Rapidly develop new insights and iterate upon those insights to drive business decisions.
8. Create annotated Data Bricks code and documentation describing analytics methodologies and data product designs using layman’s terms that will serve as the documented technical requirements for IT partners to scale and productionize analytics solutions.
9. Efficiently deliver on ad-hoc analysis requests from a wide range of stakeholders.
Additional Responsibilities:
* Work closely with Finance, Operations, Compliance, INR, legal, and other constituents to coordinate activity and ensure ORx remains compliant, competitive, and proactive.
Primary Qualifications:
1. Extensive work experience with FMCG, Pharma, or any retail experience preferred.
2. Demonstrated ability to own solution delivery with organizational, time management, and problem-solving skills.
3. Comfortable analyzing and interpreting large volumes of data from disparate data sources with the ability to error-proof the output of analyses.
4. Quantitative mindset and ability to understand complex processes.
5. Experience in creating rapid prototypes (ETL, Analytics logic).
6. Strong communication skills, able to work with stakeholders from multiple levels and disciplines.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Undergraduate degree in a discipline with analytical focus (analytics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, etc.).
2. Experience in delivering predictive and/or prescriptive analytics in an industry setting that yielded real business value.
3. Experience working in health informatics or within the healthcare industry or prior experience with clinical data would be advantageous.
4. Computer science qualification or experience.
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