Vice President, Health Policy - Evaluation, Economics and Predictive Modeling - Remote
UnitedHealth Group
- Falls Church, VA
- Contract
- Full-time
- Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise in the design and execution of program evaluations, economic analyses, advanced statistical modeling, and policy analysis
- Understand current issues in health care financing, delivery, policy, and regulation at the Federal and State level. Be expert in Medicare and Medicaid payment and policy
- Develop strategies for winning new contract work from Federal, State, and private clients. Lead winning competitive proposals. Support related work led by colleagues
- Be a trusted advisor to clients and a recognized expert in the field. Expand OSC/Lewin's reputation and prominence
- Manage large complex projects, involving multiple teams and concurrent tasks. Ensure scientific excellence, and operational efficiency. Deliver a high-quality innovative product
- Communicate clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical audiences. Ensure clear and accurate communication in all written and verbal communications and products
- Mange a large reporting line that includes staff at multiple levels of seniority and with diverse professional backgrounds. Promote employee engagement and development
- PhD in Economics, Public Policy, Health Services Research, Public Health, or related field
- 15+ years experience in health care or related industry
- 5+ years of experience leading program evaluations and/or economic analyses
- Experience attaining revenue targets, managing workstreams and budgets of multiple, sophisticated projects
- Experience managing and supervising a diverse reporting line and/or project team
- Demonstrated expertise with complex econometric analyses and evaluation design
- Demonstrated success achieving individual new business development goals and writing winning competitive proposals
- Proven excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience leading, as Principal Investigator or Project Director, multi-year program evaluations with a budget exceeding $3 million, preferably for federal HHS programs, including those at CMS
- Expertise working with large health care administrative and claims data sets
- Experience in mixed methods qualitative and quantitative research
- Expert knowledge of current Medicare and Medicaid policy
- Established professional reputation in the industry, documented by peer-reviewed publications and activities in professional associations and conferences