Strategic Advisor - Inland Empire

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The Market Advisor, Inland Empire serves as a senior strategic advisor and thought partner to market leadership, helping advance the market's strategic, clinical, operational, growth, and financial priorities.

Working collaboratively with the Market CEO and physician, clinical, operations, finance, growth, and People leaders, the Market Advisor provides an enterprise and market-wide perspective to help identify opportunities, solve complex business challenges, strengthen alignment, and accelerate execution of key priorities.

This role does not function as the Chief Operating Officer and does not assume responsibility for day-to-day market operations or direct P&L ownership. Instead, the Market Advisor works through influence and partnership, bringing together leaders and capabilities across a highly matrixed organization to improve decision-making, remove barriers, and advance market performance.

The successful candidate will bring deep healthcare business acumen, solid strategic and operational expertise, and the ability to influence senior leaders without relying on formal authority.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Strategic Advisor to Market Leadership

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor and thought partner to the Market CEO and broader market leadership team

• Provide perspective and recommendations on complex market, operational, clinical, financial, and organizational opportunities

• Help translate enterprise and regional strategies into actionable priorities for the Inland Empire market

• Evaluate market trends, performance indicators, competitive dynamics, and emerging business needs to identify opportunities and potential risks

• Facilitate strategic discussions and help leadership evaluate alternatives, trade-offs, and implications of significant market decisions

• Market Performance & Business Insights

• Partner with functional leaders to assess market performance across financial, operational, clinical, growth, affordability, quality, and patient/member experience measures

• Identify performance gaps, emerging trends, and opportunities requiring leadership attention

• Bring together information from across functions to provide leadership with an integrated view of market performance

• Develop recommendations and facilitate action planning when market performance is not progressing against established goals

• Support leadership in establishing meaningful performance measures, milestones, and mechanisms for monitoring progress

• Clinical & Value-Based Care Partnership

• Collaborate closely with physician and clinical leadership to advance market clinical priorities while respecting established clinical governance and medical decision-making authority

• Partner with leaders responsible for risk-bearing and value-based care strategies to advance affordability, quality, growth, access, and clinical outcomes

• Help connect clinical strategies with operational and business priorities to improve overall market performance

• Facilitate cross-functional problem solving when clinical, operational, financial, or organizational dependencies create barriers to execution

• Strategic Initiative & Transformation Support

• Advise and support priority market initiatives, particularly those requiring coordination across multiple functions or enterprise capabilities

• Help establish clear objectives, milestones, accountabilities, dependencies, and measures of success for significant market initiatives

• Serve as a strategic integrator across functions, helping leaders identify and resolve issues that cross traditional organizational boundaries

• Support transformation and operating-model initiatives designed to improve efficiency, affordability, growth, clinical performance, and organizational effectiveness

• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve coordination, and leverage enterprise capabilities within the market

• Growth & Market Development

• Partner with market and regional leadership to evaluate and advance strategic growth opportunities

• Provide insight regarding market dynamics, physician partnerships, care delivery capabilities, patient/member needs, and competitive considerations

• Support evaluation of potential partnerships, service expansion, market optimization, and other strategic opportunities

• Help ensure that growth strategies appropriately consider operational capacity, clinical capabilities, workforce implications, financial performance, and execution risk

• Leadership Alignment & Organizational Effectiveness

• Serve as a connector across physician, clinical, operations, finance, growth, People, and enterprise leadership

• Facilitate leadership alignment around market priorities, accountabilities, decisions, and execution requirements

• Identify organizational or operating-model barriers that may inhibit market performance and recommend solutions to appropriate accountable leaders

• Partner with market leadership and People leadership on organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, succession, and organizational design considerations as appropriate

• Promote collaboration, transparency, accountability, and enterprise thinking across the leadership team

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.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of progressively responsible leadership experience within healthcare, care delivery, health plan, value-based care, or a similarly complex environment
• Experience leading or facilitating significant cross-functional strategic initiatives and transformation efforts
• Experience navigating ambiguity and facilitating alignment among leaders with differing priorities
• Demonstrated experience advising senior executives and influencing business outcomes without relying exclusively on direct reporting authority
• Knowledge of healthcare regulatory and compliance considerations
• Solid understanding of healthcare operations, financial performance, clinical delivery, and value-based care
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively within a complex, highly matrixed organization
• Demonstrated solid business and financial acumen, including the ability to interpret operational and financial performance indicators
• Demonstrated strategic thinking, structured problem solving, and executive-level communication capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to develop trusted relationships with physician, clinical, operational, and business leaders
• Ability to travel within the market as needed

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of healthcare leadership, strategy, operations, consulting, or market leadership experience
• Experience within physician-led or integrated care delivery organizations
• Experience with value-based care, risk-bearing arrangements, affordability, quality, growth, and clinical performance
• Experience supporting significant healthcare transformation or operating-model change
• Experience working across enterprise, regional, and local-market leadership structures

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The hourly pay for this role will range from $96.00 to $165.00 per hour based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. Together, we are shaping the future of healthcare by harnessing technology and innovation to make care simpler to navigate, more affordable and more connected for the people we serve. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued, heard and respected, empowering people to bring their authentic selves to work and strengthening our collective impact through diverse talents, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated brands are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated brands are a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.