Internships at UnitedHealth Group.

If you want an intern experience that will dramatically shape your career, consider a company that’s dramatically shaping our entire health care system. UnitedHealth Group internship opportunities will provide a hands-on view of a rapidly evolving, incredibly challenging marketplace of ideas, products and services. You’ll work side by side with some of the smartest people in the business on assignments that matter.

So here we are. You have a lot to learn. We have a lot to do. It’s the perfect storm. And even better? Join us and you may end up staying for a career in which you can do your life’s best work. SM

We built focused businesses, inside UnitedHealth Group, organized around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone.

Through our two business platforms, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, we work to improve the health care system and advance the health and well-being of individuals and communities so that they can enjoy better, fuller lives.

For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges. It’s a culture of optimism that’s not like any place you’ve ever worked. Many incredible ideas in one incredible company.

Optum is a thriving member of UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest health care companies in the world. We’re doing everything in our power to make health care work better for everyone.

That includes the entire spectrum of health care participants: individual consumers and employers, commercial payers and intermediaries, physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and more.

You will be a key member of the Optum Operations Payment Integrity team with the responsibility of supporting the business, market research and analytical needs of the team. You should be able to gather business information and synthesize it logically and analytically. The desired candidate should have the ability to play various roles developing insights into markets, customers, and strategic direction.

Join us for a summer internship as a Product Operations Associate Intern and you’ll find yourself working among the companies most dynamic leaders; people who are decisive, brilliant and passionate about creating solutions to help people live healthier lives.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Analyze, review, trend, and forecast operational and financial complex data

• Support analysis and interpretation of results for operational business reviews and planning

• Monitor performance, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of major variances

• Develop and analyze key performance indicator trends for all operational areas

• Assist in establishing operational scorecards as well as appropriate business and/or client level targets based on analysis

• Develop and implement effective/strategic business solutions through research and analysis of data and business processes

• Assist business operations owners in sophisticated operations, financial, or accounting analyses designed to improve business performance, efficiency, and/or growth

• Produce financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives

• Develop, support, and present ad-hoc client and operational reports

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required
• Currently pursuing an advanced degree - Masters Level.
• Intermediate level of proficiency with PC based software programs and automated database management systems required (Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
• Available for a summer internship scheduled to start in June 2017
• Minimum 3.00 cumulative GPA
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment-based work authorization (F-1 students with practical training and candidates requiring H-1Bs, TNs, etc. will not be considered)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Undergraduate work experience in Business, Finance, Health Administration, or related field
• Currently pursuing a graduate degree (MBA) in Supply Chain, Operations, Management, Finance, Accounting, Healthcare Administration or related business field preferred.
• Strong history of quickly gaining credibility, partnering with business leaders and exhibiting executive presence
• Proven ability to articulate business strategies and formulate concise solutions to complex problems
• Excellent consultative, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate analyses including trends and opportunities to clients
• Champion continuous change, consult with versatility, exhibit personal leadership and model a customer orientation
• Ability to effectively drive results in a dynamic, matrixed environment with a high degree of organizational change, growth and ambiguity
• Superior conceptual, analytical skills
• Ability to succinctly interpret data and strategic frameworks for executives
• Experience with business and analytical tools with ability to create high quality PowerPoint presentations

A Fortune 6 company, we're focused on helping people live healthier lives while making the health system work better for everyone. Here, we seek to empower people with the information, guidance and tools to make personal health choices. We work harder and we aim higher. We expect more from ourselves and each other. And, at the end of the day, we’re doing a lot of good for more than 142 million people worldwide.