Director, IT - Military & Veterans Vendor Mgt Operations - Optum Technology - MN, AZ or CO. - Full-time / Part-time

Lead the best and brightest in technology to transform health care as we know it.

Want a meaningful and impactful challenge? At Optum, we're helping to make the health care system work better for everyone. It takes visionary technical leaders, like you, to achieve such historic change. Here, a technology leadership career will allow you the opportunity to inspire large teams comprised of highly talented, technical professionals to solve some of the toughest challenges we face and to transform the health care industry. You strive to lead and enable significant change in people's lives. This your opportunity to do just that.

 

As a Director, IT - M&V Vendor Management Operations you will be helping people live healthier lives when you bring your expertise, passion, energy, focus and all-in approach to work every day. This is the place where you can do your life's best work.(SM)

In this dynamic technology leadership role, you will provide leadership, guidance and accountability and for the performance of managers and/or senior level professional staff. As a Director, IT - M&V Vendor Management Operations, you will manage leading edge technologies and elite teams to drive and manage high-quality execution and operational excellence, delivering technology

solutions,  meeting business needs, and maximizing customer experience, growth and retention. Your strategic vision, tactical excellence and consultative skills will enable others to resolve business problems that affect multiple functions or disciplines, and ultimately, the lives of millions.

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Primary Responsibilities:
-Serve as a subject matter expert to internal stakeholders on specific IT topics/issues - collaborate with internal leaders and external business partners to gain understanding of their business needs and adapt departmental plans and priorities to address business and operational challenges
-Lead change and innovation - pursue opportunities to adopt new technologies and drive adoption to enhance business outcomes - drive and mange high-quality execution across organizational lines
-Communicate with impact - influence and negotiate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders to achieve win-win solutions that advance organizational goals
-Provide leadership, guidance, team direction, problem resolution and accountability for the performance of managers and/or senior level professional staff
-Leverage diversity and inclusion to bring in the right talent, drive employee engagement and foster teamwork and collaboration
-Manage and ensure compliance with IT structures/processes/technologies
-Grow and maintain knowledge of and leverage IT industry/marketplace technologies and trends
-Apply financial knowledge to influence forecasting and financial planning activities
-Participate in vendor contract negotiations to ensure optimal service delivery and cost controls (e.g., SLAs, vendor discounts) and monitor/manage vendor performance to ensure compliance with contract terms/conditions and deliverables
-Demonstrate integrity and ethical behavior by complying with applicable laws, regulations and policies and requiring the same from others


Responsible for Vendor Management/Daily Operations for Military &Veterans

- Vendors: DEERS/SHOV/PGBA Service Level Owner

- Drive all impact communications for Vendor systems

- Manage regular infrastructure reviews

- Provide vendor management of Government systems/SHOV/PGBA

- Provide oversite over all changes impacting M&V

- Track and manage PLM for M&V including external vendors

- Lead a small team in supporting the above responsibilities

Required Qualifications:
Undergraduate Degree or equivalent work experience
-10+ years of professional IT experience
-7+ years of professional IT experience in a large, enterprise environment
-3 to 5 years or more of professional leadership level experience in a large, enterprise environment influencing others such as IT leaders & directors. Working with people at that level extensively.
-5+ years of experience leading teams and/or managing workloads for IT team members
-Prior experience leading distributed teams in a in a support organization.  

-Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Excellent presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
-Health care industry experience
-Graduate degree preferred

-HR responsibility for staff preferred

- Experience with Vendor Management/Daily Operations


Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.SM

 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: 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.