Director, Health Policy, External Affairs

1 week ago

Washington, United States UnitedHealth Group Full time

UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a diverse team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start** Caring. Connecting. Growing together.**

The Director, Health Policy, will support External Affairs’ efforts to develop policy solutions to achieve UnitedHealth Group’s advocacy priorities and advance our mission. This person will work on a wide range of policy issues, including advancing health coverage, improving care affordability, achieving better care outcomes, and improving the consumer experience.

If you are located in Washington, DC, you will have the flexibility to work from home two days and the office three days a week in this hybrid role* as you take on some tough challenges.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Lead policy development and contribute to advocacy strategy for the topics of health insurance administrative simplification, state and federal health care-related taxes, hospital payment policy, and quality reporting
- Ensure senior business leaders are updated on external policy events related to your policy portfolio and work with senior leaders to develop policy positioning and advocacy goals
- Manage the development of select, complex Board materials including state trends maps production
- Project manage Administration engagement efforts, including reporting to executives
- Draft internal communications including weekly updates and manage completion of regulatory and legislative summaries
- Manage development of thought leadership materials
- Track and summarize Congressional hearings and relevant agency and stakeholder meetings
- Research policy topics and pertinent industry developments to highlight environmental trends and support internal initiatives
- Draft official correspondence, thought leadership collateral, presentations, policy updates, and other materials for external and internal efforts
- Direct select cross-functional projects to support External Affairs advocacy priorities
- Establish relationships with colleagues across the enterprise to ensure coordinated engagement on health policy issues and effectively ensure consistency of messaging
- Participate in internal working groups, including deployment of comprehensive strategies and tactics, to achieve UnitedHealth Group’s policy and advocacy priorities
- Predict emerging external stakeholder trends and internal business needs and develop innovative solutions to meet them

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**:

- 5+ years of experience in health care policy
- Experience monitoring, analyzing, and synthesizing state or federal regulations
- Ability to translate complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
- Understanding of how legislation impacts business goals and ability to articulate impacts
- Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills, ability to build rapport and trust, affinity for collaborative work
- Industry-wide perspective across the health care sector
- Superior oral and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts and programs to senior executives
- Intellectual curiosity and ability to gather, assess, synthesize information
- Advanced organizational skills and ability to manage work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Proven ability to anticipate needs and foresee and overcome obstacles
- 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

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