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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

This position requires an experienced clinician who has a combination of clinical training and with business acumen, and leadership skills required to deploy clinical subject matter experts and their clinical knowledge related to real-world data to support and advance the NLP capabilities within DAT. The clinical operations will need to support the scaling of NLP enrichment and innovation within existing products as well as the launch new products.

This position requires experience in people management, including training and management of a team of clinical annotators and ensuring responsibilities are fulfilled in accordance with best practices in NLP and data enrichment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Team Management - Managing the team of 10+ clinical annotators

• Stakeholder Management - Client engagement, responding to RFP and Project management

• Success in this role will require that the individual be responsible and accountable for multiple functions and general clinical operations relative delivering sustainable, financially sound solutions that solve specific problems in NLP and data enrichment and enable successful business performance

• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• MBBS, MBBS + MD/ MS, BDS, MDS, B. Pharm, M. Pharm, D. Pharm, Ph.D, RN, NP, PA

• 7 - 12 years of experience with pharma company or consulting company

• 3+ years people management experience

• Medical knowledge

• Computer skills with working knowledge of MS Office package

• Solid communication skills: Collaborate with data scientists, NLP engineers, and healthcare experts to clarify requirements, provide feedback, and address annotation-related challenges

• Understanding of data privacy and security: Adhere to strict data security and privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA) to ensure the protection of patient information during the annotation process

• Solid adaptability and flexible skills. Willing to adapt to changing project requirements, including the annotation of different types of clinical data (e.g., electronic health records, medical notes, radiology reports)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Clinical experience of 1+ years and/ or experience in review of clinical text data

• Life sciences/ Pharma Consulting experience

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.