Senior Manager, Pharmacy Value Capabilities & Decision Support - Remote

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Senior Manager, Pharmacy Value Capabilities & Decision Support will serve as the business owner for technology-enabled and AI-enabled capabilities that support value product selection, clinical decision support, and pharmacy affordability across Optum Health. This role translates clinical, financial, payer, and operational priorities into scalable tools that improve affordability, provider experience, patient access, workflow automation, and value realization.

The position leads the roadmap, implementation, lifecycle management, and adoption of enterprise pharmacy value tools, including the Pharmacy Value Product Navigator and related decision-support capabilities embedded within Epic, utilization management, and operational platforms.

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.

• Own the strategic vision, roadmap, and business requirements for pharmacy value and decision-support capabilities, including the Pharmacy Value Product Navigator and related affordability solutions
• Translate preferred product strategies, rebate opportunities, payer requirements, clinical policies, and operational priorities into scalable product direction
• governance processes for intake, prioritization, enhancement evaluation, lifecycle management, and stakeholder decision-making
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to use technology, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions to improve affordability, scalability, workflow automation, adoption, and value realization

• Integrate clinical, operational, financial, and payer intelligence into actionable decision-support frameworks
• Operationalize clinically approved preferred product and affordability strategies into scalable decision-support workflows
• Partner with clinical leadership, sourcing/procurement, market teams, and operational stakeholders to translate approved direction into practical tool design

• Serve as the business lead for pharmacy value and decision-support capabilities, aligning Pharmacy, Healthcare Economics, Finance, Technology, Utilization Management, Market Leadership, Operations, and vendor partners
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment on priorities, decision rights, solution design, deployment approach, change management, outcome measurement, and investment needs
• Develop executive-ready recommendations, business cases, and performance updates to support prioritization, technology investment planning, and leadership decision-making

• Partner with technology, analytics, product, clinical informatics, AI engineering, and clinical stakeholders to define solution scope, development priorities, governance needs, and implementation plans
• Guide development of decision-support tools embedded within provider, payer, and utilization management workflows
• Partner with AI engineering, technology, analytics, data engineering, clinical informatics, and…