VP, Provider Partnerships, Execution & Performance - UHC Government Programs

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The UnitedHealthcare Provider Partnership (UPP) team partners with provider organizations to improve quality, affordability, utilization, member experience, and value-based care performance across UnitedHealthcare. UPP serves as the primary provider-facing organization responsible for provider partnerships, performance improvement, and execution of enterprise strategies that drive measurable provider, business, and member outcomes.

The Vice President, Provider Partnerships, Execution & Performance is accountable for the national execution, organizational performance, and continued evolution of the integrated UPP provider-facing organization. Reporting to the SVP, this leader oversees an organization of approximately 400 employees through five Regional Vice Presidents and multiple layers of leadership, including Directors, Associate Directors, Managers and provider-facing roles. The Vice President is accountable for execution of enterprise provider engagement strategies and performance outcomes across all provider segments, incentive arrangements, and lines of business.

This role serves as the primary operational and execution counterpart to the Vice President, Strategy & Performance Management, translating enterprise priorities, incentive strategies, segmentation approaches, performance insights, reporting capabilities, and operating model designs into consistent field execution across markets. The Vice President ensures provider-facing teams are aligned, equipped, and accountable to deliver measurable performance improvement across all lines of business (Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial) and incentive and value-based care arrangements. This role partners closely with Market CEOs, Network, Provider Operations, Clinical, Quality, Product, Technology, Finance, Analytics, and other enterprise leaders to identify and remove systemic barriers to improve provider outcomes.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.  

For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead five Regional Vice Presidents and multiple layers of leadership responsible for provider partnerships, execution, and performance improvement
• Translate enterprise and market provider engagement strategies into clear operating Priorities, execution plans, leadership expectations, and measurable outcomes
• Establish workforce strategies, deployment models, performance routines, and accountability mechanisms that ensure consistent execution across markets, incentive types and lines of business (Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial)
• Lead execution of affordability, utilization, and ACO strategies through provider-facing teams, ensuring consistent adoption, accountability, and measurable improvement in Total Cost of Care and utilization outcomes
• Monitor organizational performance, identify execution risks, and ensure regional leaders take timely action to address performance gaps and remove barriers
• Partner across Network, Provider Operations, Clinical, Quality, Product, Technology, Finance, Analytics, Pharmacy, and Market Leadership to identify provider-level, market-level, and systemic barriers impacting quality and utilization performance and lead cross-functional efforts to address root causes, variation in care delivery and affordability performance
• Influence enterprise priorities, investment decisions and operating model through provider Insights, market intelligence, and performance data
• Drive development of enabling technologies, CRM capabilities, reporting tools, standardized templates, SOPs, and workflow practices that support execution
• Ensure provider-facing teams use data, insights, and consultative engagement to drive measurable improvement in provider and member outcomes
• Establish feedback loops between field execution, provider experience, analytics, reporting, and strategy teams to inform ongoing refinement of strategies and tools
• Assess and strengthen organizational capabilities, structure, resource alignment, and field effectiveness to mee