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

The Senior Analyst, Product Innovation is responsible for identifying and qualifying new product opportunities for Optum Rx’s PBM. Reporting up to the Senior Director, Product Innovation, the Senior Analyst will analyze opportunities to develop a sustainable pipeline of new product ideas for build. As a Senior Analyst, you will leverage data, research, and market insights to bring analytical rigor that will ensure focus on the highest impact solutions for our clients and our business.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identify and gather internal and external data to evaluate business challenges

• Conduct rigorous analyses of available data sets and build robust analytical models

• Perform market and opportunity sizing and financial analysis

• Build high-level pro-forma P&Ls for new product ideas

• Guide market research and lead internal and external interviews

• Test operational, legal, and clinical feasibility of new ideas

• Develop and validate hypotheses to drive strategic recommendations

• Create materials for sharing recommendations with senior audiences

• Communicate analyses and key takeaways through reports and presentations

Required Qualifications:

• BS or BA in a Quantitative field (Economics, Applied Math, Statistics, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, others considered) or equivalent experience

• Experience working within a healthcare strategy environment or with healthcare clients

• Experience in strategy consulting or corporate strategy with a focus on informing and influencing go-to-market decisions including business experience in 4 of the 6 following areas:

• Gathering and analyzing internal and external data to evaluate business challenges and opportunities

• Performing market and opportunity sizing and financial analysis

• Performing competitor and trend analyses

• Synthesizing data sets and extracting insights

• Developing and validating hypotheses and driving strategic recommendations

• Building financial models

• Experience communicating analyses and takeaways via reports and presentations to internal and external audiences

• Advanced Excel skills (creation of pivot tables, formulas, linking of cells and sheets, advanced manipulation, formatting of data and data visualization)

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office including PowerPoint for business presentations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Background in related business experience in strategy consulting or corporate strategy with a focus on informing and influencing go-to-market decisions

• Experience working within innovation environments (start-ups, venture capital, new business development)

• Experience guiding market research and leading internal and external interviews

• Healthcare consulting or banking experience

• Experience working in a cross-matrixed team-oriented environment

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system 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

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.

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.

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. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.