Python Job: Actuarial Manager - Hybrid

Actuarial Manager - Dublin (Hybrid)

In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum.

As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive. Together we’ll create a new future for healthcare. It’s the opportunity to do your life’s best work.

Are you a thought leader who thrives on developing new solutions to solve tough challenges? At Optum, the actuarial consulting leader in health care innovation, your performance, your ideas and your innovative thinking will help us improve the lives of millions.

As the Actuarial Manager, you will manage project teams in the delivery of consulting services involving complex mathematical analyses and actuarial modeling. You’ll provide actuarial direction and strategy that strikes a balance between growth and profitability goals. Join us. There's never been a better time to do your life's best work.

Careers with Optum offer hybrid work arrangements and individuals who live in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to regularly work from home (remote). Here at Optum we use the office space to promote community, enhance collaboration and foster innovation.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

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  Execute creative problem solving and critical thinking on the job
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  Mentor and develop an elite team of consulting actuaries
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  Lead negotiations, presentations and client relationships
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  Develop and deploy predictive data models on large data sets
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  Perform quantitative analysis on Actuarial, financial, utilization and costs data
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  Collaborate and communicate effectively with our broader teams
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  Design and support ad-hoc analytics where needed
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  Projects could range from actuarial pricing, reserving/Solvency II reporting, predictive analytics, model development, trend forecasting, population health management, value-based contracting

Required Qualifications:

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  Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
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  Extensive Actuarial/Analytical/Data Science experience
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  Experience of Project leadership/management
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  Experience leveraging traditional and non-traditional data assets
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  Experience interacting with senior management and providing work direction to a team
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  Expertise working with formulas, calculations, charts, graphs in MS Excel
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  Assess internal data and processes to determine opportunities for application of advanced analytics for broad division-wide analytic usage
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  Support development of leading edge solutions and propose recommendations and strategies to solve commercial opportunities in unique ways that return optimal value to our business
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  Ability to work a portion of monthly work hours from our Dublin or Letterkenny office is required

Preferred Assets:

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  Experience in performing statistical and regression analyses
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  Experience with predictive modeling
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  Experience with Solvency II Reporting
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  Advanced level of proficiency using SQL, R, SAS, Azure Databricks, Python, .net
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  Experience in large file transfers and/or manipulations
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  Experience in handling various file formats (JSON, csv, xls, delimited text files)
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  Experience and/or exposure in dealing with health care claims experience (i.e. understanding of costs, expected claims, diagnosis codes, procedure codes)
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  Associateship or an Fellowship designation through IFoA or SOA

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.

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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 must 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.

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