Jobs at Optum

Lead and govern enterprise risk intelligence: define intelligence lifecycle and standards, ensure QA and scalable situational awareness, forecast geopolitical and civil threats, oversee 24/7 global coverage, integrate outputs with protective intelligence and crisis management, brief senior leaders, and drive an intelligence maturity roadmap aligned to enterprise decision-making.

Lead rebuilding and scaling procurement: set strategy, governance, supplier management, and commercial negotiations for technology and operational spend. Drive cost savings, manage supplier transitions, and partner with senior stakeholders to deliver procurement value.

Provide pragmatic commercial legal advice across the business; draft and negotiate commercial agreements (SaaS, software licensing, subcontracting, reseller); support data governance, regulatory compliance, healthcare-specific issues; assist with M&A, risk management, legal training, and stakeholder engagement in a hybrid Leeds-based digital healthcare business.

Coordinate day-to-day maintenance and compliance across multiple sites: manage contractors, maintain property records, support statutory safety (fire, asbestos, legionella), raise POs/invoices, track expenditure, and lead small projects to ensure safe, efficient workplaces.

Lead UX design for Community Pharmacy and Hospital products, partnering with PMs, clinicians, and engineers to deliver research-driven, safe, and high-fidelity Figma designs, prototypes, journeys, and workshop facilitation.

Lead end-to-end technology procurement for cloud, SaaS and IT services. Manage high-value sourcing, supplier negotiations (e.g., AWS, Microsoft), contract lifecycle, supplier performance and risk. Develop category strategies, identify cost optimisation, support stakeholder decision-making and assist supplier transitions during operational change.

Provide financial partnering for operating expenses: produce monthly management accounts, variance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. Challenge budget holders, identify cost risks/opportunities, maintain controls and reconciliations, collaborate cross-functionally, and improve finance processes and reporting tools.

Own administration, configuration, and lifecycle management of security tooling. Improve detection quality and reduce false positives, enforce change control and governance, maintain MITRE ATT&CK mapping and coverage analysis, and drive continuous optimisation of security tooling across enterprise, cloud, and network environments.