Principal Data Analyst - Pharmacy Analytics,
OptumIreland3 days ago
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Principal Data Analyst, Pharmacy Analytics
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.
About The Role
The Principal Data Analyst will be responsible for developing and maintaining analytics, data solutions and business dashboards intended to drive excellence in financial and operational performance. The successful candidate will collaborate cross-functionally with various business and data analytics teams, have proven business analysis experience, and the ability to manage multiple competing business projects at one time.
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
Required Qualifications
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: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveler community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
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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.
About The Role
The Principal Data Analyst will be responsible for developing and maintaining analytics, data solutions and business dashboards intended to drive excellence in financial and operational performance. The successful candidate will collaborate cross-functionally with various business and data analytics teams, have proven business analysis experience, and the ability to manage multiple competing business projects at one time.
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
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, manage multiple priorities and deadlines, be detail-oriented and work independently as well as in groups
- Develop robust data solutions and processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting for management and staff on a wide variety of business metrics
- Responsible for detailed and continuous business analysis, identifying problems and opportunities, and recommending solutions for a business
- Transforms data into meaningful and easy to understand insights for various audiences
- Collaborate with business and product development managers on roadmap planning, prioritization, business requirements sessions and other key activities
- Participate in the development of the team's business strategy and the technical project delivery/roadmap
- Develop and manage business plans to achieve objectives
- Capture Business Requirements and translate into technical specifications
- Create specifications to bring data into a common structure, create product specifications and models, developing data solutions to support data analysis
- Partner with stakeholders to understand data requirements and business needs and develop tools and models to assist building of dashboards, data visualizations
- Define technical, data and system configuration specifications and business analysis requirements
- Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
- Develop insights and proposals for improved business processes to enable speedy deployment and testing of future projects
- Participate in multiple phases of analytics project delivery
- Analyze processes and identify issues and obstacles to make improvements
- Evaluate gaps in processes and opportunities for automation
- Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches
Required Qualifications
- Degree Qualified (BA, BS) in relevant field (analytics, mathematics, economics, business, statistics, engineering, or finance) or equivalent experience
- Experience working with technical and business professionals in a matrix management environment
- Proven track record in driving changes and influence individuals at all levels of the organization and to take appropriate risks
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language such as R or Python
- Understanding of IT systems, databases, and other technology
- Proven track record in developing strong networks and ensure collaboration and consensus building
- Demonstrated effective project ownership, management, drive & delivery
- Proven experience with Healthcare Analytics or similar analytic knowledge
- Masters and/or PhD in Finance, Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, Econometrics, or other relevant field of study
- Experience or knowledge of cloud-based data analytics e.g. (AWS, Azure, Snowflake)
- Experience in healthcare industry, either from a pharmaceutical background or consulting firm
- Experience in prioritizing work on multiple complex assignments with ongoing deadlines
- Proficiency in a visualisation tool like Excel, Tableau, PowerBI or QlikView/QlikSense etc
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills
- Excellent analytical reporting skills
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: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveler community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
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