SVP Enterprise Relationship Management & Strategic Provider Partnerships - UnitedHealthcare Networks

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The Senior Vice President, Enterprise Relationship Management & Strategic Provider Partnerships leads the strategy, governance, and execution of United Healthcare's most strategic provider and health-system relationships. This executive aligns United Healthcare, Optum, and functional teams to strengthen partnerships and advance growth, affordability, access, quality, innovation, and enterprise priorities. The role also shapes the future-state ERM operating model and uses technology, analytics, and AI to improve relationship intelligence, accountability, and execution.

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.

• Serve as executive sponsor and senior relationship leader for the organization's most strategic provider, health-systems
• Build trusted relationships with provider executives and align internal leaders around shared priorities, commitments, and long-term partnership opportunities
• Create executive engagement strategies and forums that accelerate decisions, resolve complex issues, and strengthen relationship durability
• Influence cross-functional leaders across Network, Clinical, O&E, Finance, and other teams

• Lead the evolution of the ERM strategy, operating model, governance, relationship ownership, decision rights, commitment tracking, and escalation processes
• Establish consistent operating standards, performance expectations, and best practices across markets and business segments
• Define internal relationship-health and business-impact measures and incorporate external partner feedback where appropriate
• Build scalable capabilities that improve relationships, visibility, coordination and accountability across United Healthcare and relevant enterprise partners

• Identify and advance opportunities that create mutual value for United Healthcare and strategic partners
• Leverage strategic relationships to advance affordability, access, quality, growth, total cost of care, and differentiated partnership opportunities across applicable lines of business
• Align enterprise provider strategies with market priorities, emerging risks, and long-range business plans
• Support innovative partnership models that improve healthcare quality, affordability, and consumer experience

• Define and champion the ERM technology, analytics, AI, and relationship-intelligence strategy
• Use digital workflows and data-driven insights to strengthen relationship health, identify opportunities and risks, and improve executive decision-making
• Partner with technology and business leaders to operationalize scalable ERM capabilities

• Serve as a member of the United Healthcare Networks Senior Leadership Team and represent the organization in executive, industry, and provider forums
• Lead, develop, and inspire high-performing teams while defining the talent profiles and capabilities required for future relationship management roles
• Foster a culture of integrity, compassion, relationships, innovation, performance, collaboration, accountability, and enterprise thinking

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.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Finance, Strategy, or a related field
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare, provider strategy, network management, enterprise partnerships, relationship management, or business development
• Demonstrated success managing complex provider, health-system, or…