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The Associate Director, Enterprise Risk & Operations Intelligence is a senior leader within Corporate Security responsible for developing and governing the enterprise level risk intelligence function that supports organizational awareness of threats to people, operations, and assets.
This role focuses on broad scale risk analysis, including activism and 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.
The role ensures intelligence outputs are scalable, defensible, and aligned to enterprise decision making. This function integrates closely with Protective Intelligence by providing enterprise risk context that informs downstream analysis of how broader threats may affect executive and other employee populations.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities:
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Define standardized intelligence lifecycle processes, including collection requirements, analysis, validation, dissemination, and feedback loops
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Create and maintain enterprise intelligence standards, including product formats, confidence assessments, sourcing expectations, and analytic rigor requirements
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Implement quality assurance and review processes to ensure intelligence products are accurate, consistent, and decision relevant
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Lead strategic analysis and long term risk forecasting related to geopolitical shifts, regional instability, social movements, and civil disruptions
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Develop and maintain the enterprise risk intelligence governance model, defining decision rights, accountability, and oversight for intelligence production and dissemination
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Ensure delivery of scalable situational awareness, including geographic, regional, and asset based risk assessments
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Provide oversight of 24/7 global intelligence coverage, including rapid turn SITREPs (5Ws), intelligence updates, and executive level alerts during emerging events
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Develop and execute the enterprise intelligence maturity roadmap, identifying capability gaps and future state requirements
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Integrate enterprise risk intelligence outputs with Protective Intelligence, Crisis Management, Enterprise Security Operations, and other risk partners
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Brief senior leaders on enterprise risk trends, emerging threats, and strategic intelligence assessments
You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
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Proven extensive experience in intelligence analysis, executive risk management, or related roles across private and/or public sector environments
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Proven ability to operate within highly matrixed, global organizations and build partnerships across functional areas
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Demonstrated experience operating at an enterprise governance and strategy level beyond team or program management
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Demonstrated solid written and verbal communication skills, with experience delivering intelligence products to senior leadership
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Demonstrated solid leadership engagement, communication, and presentation skills, including delivering personal briefings, presentations, and written summaries
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Demonstrated solid analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information and present clear, actionable recommendations
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Demonstrated discretion and integrity in handling sensitive and confidential information
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Proven experience working with intelligence analysis tools, threat assessment methodologies, and protective security technologies
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: 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. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
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