Delivering Care through Innovation
At Optum, we utilize technology to enhance the lives of millions. Our team collaborates to achieve better health outcomes by connecting individuals with necessary care, pharmacy benefits, data, and resources.
About the Role
Transformation in healthcare does not occur overnight. It requires creativity, imagination, and a passion for solving complex problems through innovative solutions. We are expanding our team in Ireland, creating opportunities for those seeking greater purpose and impact in their work.
The Data Scientist will partner with Pharmacy business units to develop scalable solutions addressing business challenges. The role demands strong collaboration with internal partners to set analytics direction and deliver on identified opportunities.
* Main Responsibilities:
* Direct and implement analytic activities to support decision-making for United Healthcare Pharmacy.
* Collaborate with various lines of business to understand their analytical needs, propose & deliver business solutions and drive change.
* Solve high visibility & high complexity problems, requiring strong domain knowledge & statistical understanding.
* Provide technical leadership across the department to support various teams with their data science challenges, helping code and review where appropriate.
* Build scalable data solutions for core business functions
* Anticipate customer needs, proactively develop & deliver solutions to meet them, and forecast/predict the impact of business strategies.
* Research, interpret, and analyse diverse and complex data and communicate findings to influence business direction.
You will be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and provide clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as offer development opportunities for other roles you may be interested in.