Vice President, Market Strategy - Boston, MA - Full-time / Part-time

Great sales are the result of strong purpose, conviction and pride - pride in your ability and your product. UnitedHealth Group offers a portfolio of products that are greatly improving the life of others. Bring along your passion and do your life's best work.(sm)

Will lead the development of business unit growth strategies, as well as developing strategic plans that will drive growth. This includes understanding the competitive landscape, market dynamics and trends, voice of the customer and solution gaps, as well as opportunities for respective markets. Markets include but are not limited to: Provider, Payer, Patient/Consumer and Employer. The Vice President of Market Strategy will also be responsible for influencing the strategic partnership pipeline to continually understand how the Optum Analytics business can expand and enhance strategic growth areas for the business. Requires close interaction with Product Management and Marketing, Client Services and Sales Management.

This key role reports into the Chief Product Officer of Optum Analytics

Primary Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated understanding of and familiarity with major healthcare industry trends and opportunities


• Demonstrated experience in initiating, conducting and synthesizing disparate research to identify business implications and recommendations


• Develop strategies to drive growth in core and adjacent areas


• Create product vision and strategic communication with key internal and external stakeholders


• Effectively prioritize product and technology roadmaps and processes that drive growth and product success


• Be an expert on our competition and how our products compare in detail; Facilitates/influences changes to product portfolio to improve competitive position and optimal product performance


• Drive a solution through market requirements, product pricing, contracting, and Understand client/market workflow at a deep level in order to translate market requirements to Product Development and the value proposition to downstream functions (marketing, sales, operations)


• Be a trusted advisor with the ability to influence stakeholders (including C-level), lead projects, and manage challenging interactions and effectively communicate value propositions

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years overall work experience


• At least 5 years of healthcare industry experience in business development, marketing or product strategy


• Successful track record of delivering innovative products to market in the healthcare industry


• BA or BS degree required, MBA or related MS degree preferred


• This position requires up to 30% travel

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

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.

Job Keywords: VP, Marketing, Product Development, Healthcare, Business Development, Product Strategy, Boston, MA, Massachusetts