Justin Slocum

About Justin Slocum

EXECUTIVE SUMMARYEnterprise executive with 18+ years of leadership across healthcare, retail, and financial services, spanning analytics, finance, and operations. Proven partner to C-suite and senior enterprise leaders, translating strategy into execution across complex, matrixed organizations. Track record of driving large-scale transformation, building and leading high-performing teams, and delivering sustained financial, operational, and customer outcomes. Recognized for aligning data, operations, and capital deployment to enterprise priorities across regulated and highly competitive environments.

Experience

1. Vice President, Analytics

   Optum

   Dec 2024 — Present

   Enterprise executive accountable for analytics-driven performance improvement across Care Delivery organization, partnering with senior leadership to improve clinical outcomes, operating efficiency, and financial performance.Enterprise ownership of analytics strategy and execution across 25 care delivery organizations, influencing clinical, operational, and financial decision-making and delivering $300M+ in annualized operating income improvement.Primary strategic partner to C-suite and senior executives, translating enterprise priorities into actionable insights across access, provider throughput, scheduling, referral management, ancillary services, service line optimization, revenue cycle, coding operations, payer contracting, medical cost, risk adjustment, workforce, real estate, and cost containment.Led the acquisition, integration, and operating model alignment of 10 analytics teams into a unified enterprise organization, standardizing governance, platforms, and delivery while improving speed, consistency, and impact.Led transformation of analytics operating model, modernizing platforms and capabilities - cloud data architecture (Azure, ADF & Snowflake), business intelligence (Power BI), geospatial analytics (ArcGIS), and advanced analytics & predictive modeling - to scale insights from pilots to enterprise-wide adoption.Built and sustained a high-performance organization of 70+ leaders and practitioners, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and talent development, resulting in 96% engagement.Serve as executive advisor on enterprise transformation initiatives, enabling data-driven prioritization, capital deployment, and measurement of realized value.

Education

• The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance

  2005 — 2008

Skills

• Financial Modeling
• Valuation
• Performance Management
• Budgeting
• Strategic Planning
• Financial Planning
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Inventory Management
• Financial Reporting
• Budgets
• Finance
• Essbase
• Financial Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Leadership
• Excel
• Analysis
• Corporate Finance
• Forecasting
• Word
• Microsoft Office
• Management
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint