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.

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 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 communicates we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale.  Join us to start Caring, Connecting Growing together. 

The Senior Director of Procurement and Supply Chain will be responsible for transforming seven individual local procurement and supply chain teams into a single strategic function serving the East Region of Optum Health. This is a large region and team comprised of $350M in annual spend, >300 suppliers, and >80 teammates. This function ensures high physician, patient, and team satisfaction by creating value in the form of savings, world-class procurement and supply chain support, industry leading solutions and shared services and industry leading product availability, total cost, and quality.

This is a high visibility role where influencing key stakeholders will be critical to success. The successful candidate must be passionate about customer service and a service first culture, driving value and performance improvements for the East Region and Optum Health, and must be effective at working in a fast-paced environment and confident in their interactions with a broad range of clients in executive and leadership roles. 

If you are located in New York or New Jersey, you will have the flexibility to work remotely* as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates solid collaboration skills and a service excellence / servant leadership mentality

• Lives and incorporates the UHG values in their daily work

• Demonstrates history of leading financial, operational, and cultural start-ups or turn arounds

• Builds high-performing teams

• Connects with local leaders across the East Region to ensure operations best practices are implemented

• Has deep experience in vendor relationships interacting with senior vendor leaders and works collaboratively with partners

• Demonstrates emotional resilience in stress situations; maintains a positive attitude when encountering resistance or setbacks; actively supports organizational change

• Assesses local and national programs

• Understands external market and industry trends

• Collaborates with Supply Chain operations leads to constantly engage on execution and strategy, aligning progress made to overall goal 

• Assumes responsibility for change management of key initiatives across the regions and markets

• Relentlessly and judiciously prioritize time, resources, and investments – can pivot and say no

• Displays solid speaking skills with ability to know the measures & share with operations, business, national leaders, market presidents and finance

• Communicates the strategy and vision effectively and drives the steps in the short-term to achieve the vision

• Accountable to the East region for procurement, supply chain, and materials management performance and to the enterprise for strategy, people, operating model and KPIs

• Deliver high customer satisfaction across strategic sourcing, procurement, and materials management

• Enable industry leading satisfaction, total cost, product availability, and product/service quality

• In collaboration with the enterprise and other regional leads, establish a regional Supply Chain Operating Model

• Establish regional solutions, technology, policies and procedures, and shared services (Ex: Intake, contract repository, procure to pay, purchasing services, asset management, materials management, and origin to destination supply chain)

• Enable supplier consolidation and supplies and services standardization resulting in improved cost, service, and quality

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:

• 10+ years of procurement and/or supply chain experience

• 8+ years of healthcare leadership experience with demonstrated excellence in building high performing and engaged teams in a highly matrixed environment

• Demonstrated ability to build and manage a scaled supply chain operating model with industry-leading solutions and capabilities

• Proven service oriented servant leader focused on exceeding customer expectations with the ability to influence all levels of Care Delivery and Supplier organizations

• Proven bias towards action and results with the ability to resolve conflicts and remove barriers

• Proven excellent communicator verbal and written

• Demonstrated ability to create value for customers in the form of savings, efficiency, and quality improvement

Preferred Qualification:

• Demonstrated ability to analyze spend, identify opportunities, and communicate detailed expected results to partnering teams

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

New Jersey or New York Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $147,300 to $282,800 annually. 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.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and 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.