Associate Director, Enterprise Risk & Operations Intelligence
UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well‑being company dedicated to improving health outcomes around the world. This senior leader within Corporate Security is responsible for developing and governing the enterprise‑level risk intelligence function that supports organizational awareness of threats to people, operations, and assets.
The role focuses on broad‑scale risk analysis, including activism, civil disruptions, regional risk conditions, and site‑level risk environments. The Associate Director establishes the intelligence requirements, analytic standards, frameworks, and processes that enable consistent, high‑quality intelligence across the enterprise. Intelligence outputs are scalable, defensible, and aligned to enterprise decision‑making. The function integrates closely with Protective Intelligence to provide risk context that informs downstream analysis of how broader threats may affect executive and other employee populations.
Individuals located in the Republic of Ireland may split their monthly work hours between the Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home‑based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities
- Define standardized intelligence lifecycle processes, including collection requirements, analysis, validation, dissemination, and feedback loops.
- Create and maintain enterprise intelligence standards, including product formats, confidence assessments, sourcing expectations, and analytic rigor requirements.
- Implement quality assurance and review processes to ensure intelligence products are accurate, consistent, and decision‑relevant.
- Lead strategic analysis and long‑term risk forecasting related to geopolitical shifts, regional instability, social movements, and civil disruptions.
- Develop and maintain the enterprise risk intelligence governance model, defining decision rights, accountability, and oversight for intelligence production and dissemination.
- Ensure delivery of scalable situational awareness, including geographic, regional, and asset‑based risk assessments.
- Provide oversight of 24/7 global intelligence coverage, including rapid‑turn SITREPs (5Ws), intelligence updates, and executive‑level alerts during emerging events.
- Develop and execute the enterprise intelligence maturity roadmap, identifying capability gaps and future state requirements.
- Integrate enterprise risk intelligence outputs with Protective Intelligence, Crisis Management, Enterprise Security Operations, and other risk partners.
- Brief senior leaders on enterprise risk trends, emerging threats, and strategic intelligence assessments.
Required Qualifications
- Proven extensive experience in intelligence analysis, executive risk management, or related roles across private and/or public sector environments.
- Proven ability to operate within highly matrixed, global organizations and build partnerships across functional areas.
- Demonstrated experience operating at an enterprise governance and strategy level beyond team or program management.
- Demonstrated solid written and verbal communication skills, with experience delivering intelligence products to senior leadership.
- Demonstrated solid leadership engagement, communication, and presentation skills, including delivering personal briefings, presentations, and written summaries.
- Demonstrated solid analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information and present clear, actionable recommendations.
- Demonstrated discretion and integrity in handling sensitive and confidential information.
- Proven experience working with intelligence analysis tools, threat assessment methodologies, and protective security technologies.
You must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the Republic of Ireland. Proof of eligibility will be required.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug‑free workplace.
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