[Remote] Manager Advisory Services - Payer Strategy and Management Consulting - Remote

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum Insight is hiring a Manager, Advisory Services to lead strategy and transformation consulting engagements for payer clients. The role sets engagement approaches and deliverables, guides and develops consulting teams, and helps clients address strategic priorities and improve financial and market performance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as overall day-to-day engagement manager across various engagement types (predominantly strategy and transformation consulting engagements for payer clients)
• Demonstrate ability to accurately diagnose client-facing issues and determine the appropriate analyses and evaluations to develop solutions
• Responsible for determining overall analytical approach and structure for client engagements and workstreams
• Build consensus among client stakeholders about the accuracy of the solutions and aid them in successful implementation
• Spend time coaching team members to develop approaches for their individual responsibilities, reviewing and validating their work for accuracy and effectiveness
• Serve as the main point of contact for payer clients and client stakeholders
• Establish optimal communication cadence with clients and demonstrate executive presence
• Prioritize and delegate work to team members and self that meet needs and timelines of client
• Closely monitors actual vs. expected team utilization
• Effectively and appropriately apply both deductive and inductive thinking
• Provide subject matter expertise to other Optum Advisory Services business units related to strategic planning and specific payer client issues
• Communicate effectively and accurately in writing and verbally
• Demonstrate solid relationship management skills and ability to handle challenging interpersonal situations
• Contribute to practice-level initiatives including business development and thought leadership beyond client project work

Skills

• 2+ years of external client/customer-facing experience in strategy and management consulting (McKinsey-BCG-Bain/Big 4/Boutique) or equivalent professional services environment
• 2+ years of experience in health care (payer or life sciences)
• 2+ years of experience utilizing formal industry strategy consulting frameworks within a payer or life sciences environment
• 2+ years of experience with project management, developing and presenting deliverables to C-suite executives
• 1+ experience mentoring and upskilling junior staff
• Proven analytical reasoning and solutions-focus problem solving skills
• Ability to drill down to the root cause of issues and develop actionable solutions
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite - Word, PowerPoint, Excel
• Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, generative AI platforms, AI-driven analytics) as part of day-to-day delivery and team workflow
• Background in healthcare consulting
• Experience supporting end-to-end sales and business development life cycle in a consulting environment (e.g., lead generation, proposal development, RFP response)
• Creative in problem solving approach

Benefits

• Remote work from anywhere within the U.S.; hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area are required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.
• Comprehensive benefits package (subject to eligibility requirements).
• Incentive and recognition programs (subject to eligibility requirements).
• Equity stock purchase (subject to eligibility requirements).
• 401k contribution (subject to eligibility requirements).
• Development for other roles you may be interested in.

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