Sr. Manager Strategy and Innovation (Medicare Ancillary) - MN Market

UnitedHealth Group is simplifying the health care experience and creating healthier communities. They are seeking a Senior Manager to drive the Medicare Ancillary innovation strategy and multi-year roadmap, translating market insights and member needs into portfolio-level recommendations that shape growth and member experience.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the Medicare Ancillary innovation pipeline across Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement, aligning opportunities to support enterprise growth, affordability, and member experience goals
• Lead prioritization of high-value product opportunities by synthesizing market research, competitive intelligence, utilization data, member insights, operational feasibility, and financial impact into clear recommendations
• Define portfolio recommendations, product concept briefs, and business cases that clarify the problem to solve, target population, value proposition, operating model, investment needs, readiness requirements, and success measures
• Drive executive decision-making through strategic recommendations, tradeoff analyses, investment narratives, and roadmaps that clarify milestones, decisions, owners, dependencies, risks, and enterprise readiness
• Represent the Ancillary innovation portfolio in governance forums, portfolio reviews, and senior leadership discussions, surfacing tradeoffs, blockers, and decisions required to accelerate impact
• Advise senior product leaders on innovation priorities, investment choices, strategic risks, readiness gaps, and actions to improve portfolio performance
• Establish the Ancillary portfolio operating model and leadership rhythm, including priority setting, governance, risk management, decision escalation, performance montioring, and executive follow-through
• Shape planning cycles, leadership meetings, business reviews, and working sessions by framing strategic choices, required decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and recommended paths forward
• Translate Medicare Ancillary strategy into priorities, workstreams, success measures, and implementation plans aligned to broader product organization priorities and goals
• Lead cross-functional alignment across matrixed partners by clarifying objectives, accountable owners, decision rights, timelines, dependencies, unresolved issues, and readiness implications
• Synthesize market, competitor, regulatory, financial, and operational intelligence to inform product priorities, executive decisions, and future innovation opportunities
• Navigate competing priorities and incomplete information across business areas, balancing member value, financial impact, feasibility, compliance, sales needs, and implementation risk
• Create structure for ambiguous innovation opportunities and convert them into sequenced decisions, funded initiatives, measurable outcomes, and scalable operating practices

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in healthcare strategy, Medicare, product management, innovation, or consulting
• Experience owning strategy development, portfolio prioritization, business cases, product concepts, market assessments, implementation roadmaps, or cross-functional transformation initiatives
• Working knowledge of Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, supplemental benefits, ancillary products, or related health plan capabilities
• Solid strategic and analytical skills, including ability to interpret complex inputs, assess enterprise implications, frame tradeoffs, quantify value, and translate findings into executive-ready recommendations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to create concise, structured, decision-oriented executive materials
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex workstreams, influence senior stakeholders, drive accountability without direct authority, and move high-impact work forward in a matrixed enterprise
• High ownership mindset with comfort operating in ambiguity, creating structure for complex problems, and balancing enterprise strategy with disciplined execution
• Outstanding executive communication and organizational skills, with ability to manage competing priorities, relationships, decision forums, and portfolio-level deliverables with limited direction