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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.

The Vice President, OptumRx Pharmacy Care Services People Team will help shape and execute the People Team and talent strategies for Pharmacy Care Services businesses, creating a wealth of opportunity for an experienced HR strategic partner to contribute across a broad range of priorities, including workforce strategy, culture building, labor relations strategy, organization effectiveness, talent agenda, leadership bench strength, and employee experience.

As part of the OptumRx People Team, this role will be aligned to support the rapidly growing OptumRx Pharmacy Care Services suite of companies, which current has over $60B in revenue and over 15,000 employees. The incumbent will leverage extensive organizational development, M&A and leadership experience to help support the organization’s evolution and future growth. As a member of the OptumRx People Team leadership team, the incumbent will also serve as a leader on cross-OptumRx evolution strategies and initiatives.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership: Coaching, development, and stewardship of a high impact People Business Partner team, with a mix of integrated and not-yet-integrated teams

• Consulting & Coaching: Lead as strategic partner to senior leaders driving people strategies to achieve business outcomes

• Organizational Effectiveness: Improve the health and effectiveness of the organization through various methods, tools and techniques impacting business results. Examples include organization design, change enablement and leadership, workforce planning, effective leadership, and coaching.

• Data and Analytics: Leverage data and analytic skills to drive decision making and action. Design, develop, and deploy solutions through on-going analysis and tying multiple data sets together to recommend action aligned with business strategies.

• Talent Management: Understands the organizational talent strategy, talent plans and supply chain of internal and external talent. Drives business talent strategy and plans by applying talent acquisition, workforce planning, total rewards and inclusion and diversity practices to drive talent outcomes.

• Mergers & Acquisitions: Lead and provide oversight to due diligence, integration and divestiture activity across the Pharmacy Care Services businesses. Partner with the business and people COE teams to continuously improve the experience and refine our processes

• Culture and Employee Experience: Deep understanding of culture, diversity and the drivers impacting a positive employee experience. Foster inclusion, diversity, and culture practices to create and maintain a positive, rewarding, and inclusive environment.

• Business Fluency: Financial understanding and business operations knowledge. Understands how the business unit operates, major categories of cost and how profits are generated. Able to articulate the strategy, customer base and external factors impacting the business.

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Integrate, align, and embed Inclusion and Diversity Strategy within the people strategy and all aspects of People Team work

You’ll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business or Behavioral Science or related field or demonstrated equivalency

• Proven leadership of People teams and commitment to caring for, connecting with and developing all members of the team

• Experience with mergers & acquisitions, including due diligence, talent assessment, leading organizational design and organizational effectiveness strategies, complex change management, integration and assimilation

• Experience successfully leveraging COE People Team functions, and partnership within a matrixed (i.e. shared services delivery model) environment at a large, global, complex organization

• Demonstrated systems thinking including influencing executives in shaping and implementing long-term business strategies aligned with people strategies

• Significant experience in leading large scale, multi-business organizational effectiveness and change management strategies

• Demonstrated experience in being a highly influential, disruptive strategic thinker, willing to challenge conventional and siloed thinking, drive change and offer a different viewpoint

• Demonstrated expertise applying data and analytics to influence decision making and business outcomes

• Proven successful consulting and interpersonal agility competencies demonstrated across various types of executive stakeholders

• Experience developing talent strategies and executing plans aligned with the culture and overall employee experience to drive business outcomes; experience with developing and driving labor strategies is a plus

• Experience demonstrating business fluency and knowledge

• Experience developing and implementing workforce strategy, aligned with and driving business outcomes

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington residents is $XXX to $XXX per year. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives  

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: 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.