POSITION DESCRIPTION

Throughout your 10-12 week internship, you'll collaborate with research teams to design datasets that help answer questions, use data and experience to contribute to team discussions and help guide projects, learn new or unfamiliar data by reviewing documentation, exploring data, and asking questions and take ownership and responsibility for the data used in research, models, and analysis. The Customer Office champions the voice of the customer, delivers innovative problem solving, applies and strengthens enterprise capabilities, and nurtures the stakeholder partnerships that deliver the wing-to-wing-to-wing experience that delights the customer and delivers enterprise value. The teams within the Customer Office partner with businesses throughout the Optum Enterprise to innovate and transform customer capabilities, design marquee customer experiences, deliver clear and compelling marketing communications, and improve the overall customer experience. The Customer Office drives Enterprise action by putting those we serve first.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyze healthcare data from disparate data sources
• Prioritizes and organizes own work to meet deadlines
• Develop data-driven objectives to assess risks and controls
• Contribute to the ideation and brainstorming processes required to develop game-changing products and programs in healthcare
• Translate complex findings into compelling narratives
• Present your findings to leaders spanning a wide range of technical expertise

You'll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

CAREERS WITH OPTUM. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do YOUR LIFE'S BEST WORK.(SM) Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job Details

• REQUISITION NUMBER 861810

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Working towards a BS/BA degree from an accredited college/university in Engineering, Life Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Decision Science or related field
• 1+ years of working analytic tools such as SAS, R, Python, SPSS, KNIME, RapidMiner, Tableau or similar tools, with an additional 1+ years of experience with SQL and/or other querying software
• Knowledge of predictive modeling techniques, including: regression (linear and logarithmic), classification methods, clustering, neural network development, etc.
• Experience applying a data science framework such as CRISP-DM, and using supervised or unsupervised learning methods to derive practical analytic insights, from problem formulation through model evaluation
• Experience translating research questions or business requirements into actionable work
• Working knowledge of relational databases and database structures

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.