Optum

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

As our Principal Data Analyst you will join a newly established team within OptumRx responsible for delivering a Pharmacy Centre of Excellence. You will provide analytics and insights related to primary revenue drivers as well as supporting process improvements across the 5 Optum owned pharmacy network. You will also have the opportunity to develop new data products for external customers.

Within the role, you will build relationships with our partners across many functions, including Supply Chain, Finance, Network Relations and Clinical.

We’re looking for someone with a quantitative mindset, a aptitude for complex problem solving and process improvement with well-developed communication and technical skills.

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:

• Role requires leading projects and or segment teams, review work performed by others, and recommend improvements, motivate and mentor team members
• Develop new concepts, technologies and products to meet emerging business requirements to support data and service product and programs, contracting, sales and invoicing
• Analytical skills including the ability to understand complex problems, break them down into manageable components, and apply analytical techniques to find solutions
• Help drive these solutions for both Internal and external customers
• Actively consult with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure appropriate business content is incorporated into analytic approaches. Anticipate stakeholder needs and proactively develop solutions to meet them
• Performs complex conceptual analyses and deliver well-engineered, scalable data products to support integrated analytics and reporting
• Rapidly develop new insights and iterate upon those insights to drive business decisions
• Create annotated Data Bricks code and documentation describing analytics methodologies, data product designs using layman’s terms that will serve as the documented technical requirements for IT partners to scale and productionize analytics solutions
• Efficiently deliver on ad-hoc analysis requests from a wide range of stakeholders

Additional Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Finance, Operations, Compliance, INR, legal and other constituents to coordinate activity and ensure ORx remains compliant, competitive, and proactive

Primary Qualifications:

• MS Azure, SQL, Data visualisation experience
• Extensive work experience with FMCG, Pharma or any Retail experience preferred
• Demonstrated ability to own solution delivery with organizational, time management and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable analyzing and interpreting large volumes of data from disparate data sources with the ability to error proof the output of analyses
• Quantitative mindset and ability to understand complex processes
• Experience in creating rapid prototypes (ETL, Analytics logic)
• Communication skills, able to work with stakeholders from multiple levels and disciplines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in discipline with analytical focus (analytics, mathematics, statistics, engineering etc.)
• Experience in delivering predictive and/or prescriptive analytics in an industry setting that yielded real business value
• Experience working in health informatics or within the healthcare industry or prior experience with Clinical data would be advantageous
• Computer science qualification or experience

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

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.

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

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 Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.