Basic relocation package
About Optum
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.
Position
As our Principal Project Manager, you will play a key role in driving innovative projects across our Business and Technology groups in Ireland. Working closely alongside the Director of Technical Program Management, you will be a key orchestrator in implementing the vision of establishing Optum’s Ireland Office as a Technology and Innovation Hub. Specifically, your focus will be to assist in the continued implementation and development of the iHub operating model, ensuring the successful delivery of critical projects and the continued success of the Optum Tech Division and the Innovation Hub.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead or help develop program or project scope statements, in consultation with applicable stakeholders (e.g., program / project charter, Statement of Work, Business Vision Document)
- Work with resource managers to drive the identification of the skills, duration and effort required for successful project execution
- Reporting progress/metrics for products
- Collect, analyze and maintain financial forecast information (e.g., labor, hardware, software), using input from applicable sources
- Lead strategic initiatives across various units of the business from cradle to grave
- Develop and maintain project plans, tasks, deliverables, dependencies and resource requirements
- Establish / apply quality objectives, criteria, standards and levels using appropriate quality management methods, with stakeholder input (e.g., key performance indicators, scope definition)
- Develop, communicate and implement program / project risk / issue management plans and strategies (e.g., mitigation, avoidance, transfer, acceptance)
- Lead coordination and completion of projects across various functional areas
- Monitor and control projects ensuring efficient utilization of project resources
- Participate and promote the use of lean and continuous improvement tools
Your qualification
- Significant project management and delivery experience
- Proven experience translating business requirements into project deliverables
- Stakeholder management experience
- Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently to competing deadlines
- Experience in operationalizing projects
Will be a plus
- Proven change management and/or operational readiness experience
- Project Management qualification(s)
- Past success in driving innovation across a function/enterprise
- Experience in Cybersecurity or related industry (Banking, Gaming) is desirable
Additional details
A relocation package is discussed individually.