VP, Portfolio Strategy, Commercialization and Transformation

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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States Salary: $200,400 - $343,500/year

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United Health Group Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives? Join

us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.  The VP, Portfolio Strategy, Commercialization and Transformation owns the enterprise portfolio strategy and product development lifecycle for Optum Insight Product. This leader ensures product concepts are grounded in payer and provider priorities, validated against market demand, advanced through disciplined investment and governance decisions, and designed for differentiated, scalable commercialization.

The role integrates portfolio strategy, product ideation and validation, build, buy and partner choices, commercialization readiness, and transformation priorities across a complex, matrixed organization.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

  Champion responsible for AI as a core driver of product strategy and team performance, shaping how AI-enabled capabilities are prioritized, developed, deployed, measured, and scaled

Define and maintain the multiyear Optum Insight Product portfolio strategy, including market priorities, growth vectors, capability gaps, adjacencies, and expansion opportunities

Translate payer and provider business models, workflows, economics, regulatory dynamics, technology needs, and client pain points into actionable product and portfolio priorities

Assess market demand and apply deep knowledge of payer and provider needs, workflows, and capabilities to shape interoperable solutions that connect across the healthcare ecosystem

Establish consistent standards for product ideation, discovery, market testing, value proposition development, business case creation, and evidence-based validation before investment

Shape portfolio and roadmap decisions by recommending where to invest, accelerate, integrate, consolidate, rationalize, acquire, or partner based on market value, strategic fit, feasibility, and financial return

Drive coherence across products and platforms to create integrated, client-centered solutions while preserving clear stand-alone market propositions where appropriate

Set commercialization readiness standards across the portfolio, including priority buyers, use cases, positioning, value articulation, pricing inputs, entry points, expansion pathways, and measurable client outcomes

Partners with Product, Technology, Finance, Implementation, Sales, Client Management, Strategy, and Growth leaders to convert portfolio strategy into funded roadmaps and disciplined market execution

Lead cross-functional portfolio governance, bringing transparent tradeoffs, investment choices, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to senior leadership

Define strategic build, buy, and partner recommendations and connect AI, automation, data, globalization, workforce, and operating model choices to portfolio direction

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…