Associate Director Corporate Security

About UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group is a global healthcare and wellness organization committed to enhancing the health outcomes of millions worldwide. It operates through two complementary segments, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, aiming to rebuild a better healthcare system for all. Join a diverse team passionate about making a meaningful impact in healthcare.

Role Overview

The Associate Director, Enterprise Risk & Operations Intelligence, is a senior leadership position within Corporate Security. This role is accountable for developing and overseeing the enterprise-wide risk intelligence function that advances organizational insight into threats posed to personnel, operations, and assets at all levels.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and standardize intelligence lifecycle procedures, covering collection, analysis, quality validation, dissemination, and feedback incorporation.
• Develop and uphold enterprise-wide intelligence standards concerning report formats, confidence metrics, source expectations, and analytic rigor.
• Implement rigorous quality assurance frameworks to guarantee intelligence outputs are accurate, coherent, and relevant for decision making.
• Lead strategic evaluations and long-term forecasting of risks related to geopolitical dynamics, regional instabilities, social movements, and civil unrest.
• Create and manage the governance structure for enterprise risk intelligence, defining decision authorities, accountability, and oversight mechanisms.
• Facilitate scalable situational awareness solutions, including geographic, regional, and site-specific risk evaluations.
• Supervise continuous 24/7 global intelligence operations, ensuring prompt situational reports, updates, and high-level alerts during incidents.
• Design and execute the enterprise intelligence capability roadmap identifying gaps and future requirements.
• Ensure integration of risk intelligence outputs with other security functions such as Protective Intelligence, Crisis Management, and Enterprise Security Operations.
• Communicate enterprise risk trends and strategic intelligence insights to senior executives through briefings and reports.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive, proven experience in intelligence analysis, executive risk management, or related roles within both private and public sectors.
• Ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed global organizations and foster cross-functional partnerships.
• Experience working at enterprise governance and strategy levels beyond operational or program management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, capable of delivering intelligence products targeted at senior leadership.
• Effective leadership presence in communications, including briefings, presentations, and written summaries.
• Exceptional analytical skills with talent for synthesizing complex data into actionable insights.
• High discretion and integrity in managing confidential and sensitive information.
• Experience using intelligence analysis tools, threat assessment methods, and protective security technologies.

Eligibility and Legal Requirements

Applicants must be legally authorized to work indefinitely in Ireland without restrictions and provide verification upon request.

Diversity and Inclusion

UnitedHealth Group is committed to creating an equitable work environment that supports diversity in all forms. All qualified candidates will be considered without discrimination based on gender, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, or any other legally protected category.

Additional Information

Careers at Optum offer flexible working, particularly for individuals based in Ireland who may split their work time between the Dublin or Letterkenny offices and remote telecommuting in a hybrid arrangement.