Senior Manager, E&I Strategic Partnerships – Remote

At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

In this role in UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, you will help provide access to a health and wellness shopping experience designed to deliver unsurpassed value and personalized services for consumers.

You must be passionate about improving access to care, health and wellness products and newly emerging virtual and digital offerings. 

Position in this function is reporting to the Senior Director, the Senior Manager will manage relationships with key partners and vendors, ensuring solutions fit the portfolios and align with business goals. They will identify opportunities, negotiate contracts, and deliver market value. Working with Strategic Partnership leadership, they will identify business opportunities, author strategy documents, and develop fact-based arguments to secure support. The Senior Manager will manage select vendors, demonstrating anticipation and timing in oversight and accountability. They will navigate a complex, matrixed environment, collaborating cross-functionally to support training, best practices, and shared opportunities. Additionally, they will work with internal stakeholders and external partners to execute relationships and independently understand complex businesses, customer needs, and technology, identifying areas for process improvement.

The Senior Manager role is a highly visible and critical role for advancing:

• Vendor Strategy: Work across Strategic Partnerships’ team to help drive and support partnership strategy and partner selection
• Vendor Contracting: Work with external partners to advance discussions alongside UHC procurement for advancing the contract including clinical, legal, employer and network
• Relationship Management: Manage external vendors and regular monitor performance, including reporting and metrics, growth opportunities, operations, client NPS, etc.
• Proactive Collaboration: Highly critical for the candidate to demonstrate the ability to drive initiatives forward and act with a sense of urgency while creating solid relationships across both UnitedHealthcare and Optum

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Partnership Strategy & Development:
  • Identify and evaluate potential partners and vendors
  • Develop and execute partnership strategies to drive growth and innovation
  • Maintain solid relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring alignment and mutual benefit
  • Conduct market research to identify trends and opportunities
• Contract Negotiation and Management:
  • Lead contract negotiations with partners and vendors
  • Oversee the drafting, review, and execution of contracts, ensuring compliance with company policies
  • Monitor contract performance and address any issues
• Vendor Management:
  • Establish and manage vendor performance metrics to ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are met
  • Develop strategies to optimize vendor performance and value
  • Conduct regular reviews of vendor relationships and negotiate improvements
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • Work closely with internal teams, including procurement, legal, and operations, to ensure alignment of partnership and vendor strategies
  • Provide support to internal stakeholders on partnership and vendor-related matters
• Reporting and Documentation:
  • Prepare and present reports on partnership and vendor performance to management
  • Maintain accurate documentation on all partnership and vendor activities
• Other duties as assigned to support the Consumer Office

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:

• 4+ years of relevant product, general management, consumer experience
• 1+ year of demonstrated experience in partnership management, contract negotiation, and vendor relations
• Demonstrated experience navigating complex topics and leading teams to aligned decisions
• Demonstrated experience in communications and influencing business strategy
• Demonstrated experience leading and influencing cross functional technical and business teams
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative and fluid work environment and working with ambiguity
• Willing and able to travel 10% +/- depending on business need

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with managing successful product lifecycles including product vision, market analysis, go-to-market strategy, delivery, and post-delivery optimization
• Experience communicating with and briefing senior executives
• Demonstrated success in creating and maintaining external and internal relationships

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

The salary range for this role is $106,800 to $194,200 annually based on full-time employment. 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.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug – free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.