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What's your next step? How will you leverage the study, training, certifications and your energy to help develop solutions to transform the health care industry? As an Associate Director at UnitedHealth Group, you can do just that. You'll lead complex actuarial projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives and helping to make the health system work better for everyone. It's an opportunity to help rewrite the future of UnitedHealth Group as you participate in the development of business strategy.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with our teams to maintain, update, and continually improve the pharmacy model
• Lead actuarial analysts in pharmacy pricing studies to support and enhance the pricing of pharmacy EGWP
• Review emerging plan experience to keep improving pricing accuracy
• Work in a cross-functional team forming partnerships with the Individual Medicare Pharmacy Pricing Team, Trend Team, and Finance to ensure consistency with emerging trends and strategic planning
• Assist Underwriting with non-standard requests, ad hoc pricing questions, and review of model outputs
• Communicate pricing results to senior management and provide guidance on achieving financial targets
• Lead Rate filings and ensure rating methodology in rate filings is consistent with the rating model
• Work with pharmacists on potential strategies for clients and ensure we can price them accurately
• Work with product development on new ideas
• Manage the workload and career development of a small staff of actuarial analysts
• Build solid relationships across teams that will serve to strengthen our product for our members and your network for future career development

The challenges and opportunities here are significant. You'll be part of an intensely driven and focused team that is accountable for constantly improving business results. You'll be a trusted subject matter expert who's called on to incorporate traditional actuarial expertise into novel, cutting edge actuarial solutions.

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:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• ASA (Associate of the Society of Actuaries) or FSA (Fellow of the Society of Actuaries) designation
• 4+ years of professional Actuarial experience
• Experience working in the healthcare industry
• Project management experience
• Advanced proficiency with MS Excel

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of actuarial experience
• Experience with Medicare Part D
• Staff management experience
• Medicare experience
• A basic level of proficiency with SAS (Statistical Analysis System) and/or SQL (Structured Query Language)
• A basic level of proficiency with VBA
• Proven solid communication and presentation skills

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island or Washington residents is $101,200 to $184,000. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. 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.

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

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. ]