Spend your summer at UnitedHealth Group and you'll get an opportunity to do something extraordinary: make a real difference. We have modest goals: Help 75 million people live healthier lives. Change the landscape of health care forever. Leave the world a better place than we found it. Such aspirations attract a certain type of person. Crazy talented. Brilliant. Compassionate. Driven. To these select few, we offer the global reach, resources and can-do culture of a Fortune 6 company. You'll find a world of career options fueled by your performance and limited only by imagination.

Here's the idea. 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.

Careers with OptumInsight Advisory Services have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do YOUR LIFE'S BEST WORK.

The Optum Advisory Services Master's Program Internship, part of OptumInsight, is a tailored program for current master students who are interested in progressing their management career in the Health Care and consulting industry. The internship capstone experience includes the following:

• A 10 week experiencing helping a team of your choice solve some of their most complex health care problems
• Professional networking, executive exposure, and community outreach activities
• A dedicated professional mentor/buddy to help guide and shape their summer experience
• Opportunity to choose your summer project, and focus area to help address some of most complex problems in health care

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct research studies that may include collecting, analyzing, trending and presenting data and recommendations to management.
• Create written and oral communication artifacts that effectively summarize findings, support fact based recommendations and provide appropriate detail to substantiate conclusions.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to define deliverables and develop solutions that are reusable across the organization.
• Identify and document business process re-engineering opportunities including current and future state process flows.
• Define, develop and document business requirements to ensure clients' needs are captured and delivered.
• Develop financial models and tools, including cost-benefit analysis, resource utilization models and performance reports.
• Maintain work papers, project deliverables and other artifacts that can be recreated and leveraged as intellectual capital.
• Perform project management duties including the creation of status reports, work plans, project budgets, resource plans and presentations for client leadership.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree obtained from an accredited college/university
• Currently enrolled in a Graduate degree program (MBA, MHA or MPH preferred) and scheduled to finish by Spring 2021
• Must be willing to work out of MN, DC or TN office locations
• 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 visa holders with Optional Practical Training (OPT) who will require H-1B status, TNs, or current H-1B visa holders will not be considered. H1-B and green card sponsorship is not available for this position)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3+ years of professional full time experience
• 1+ years of leadership experience
• Health care industry experience
• Consulting industry experience
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Highly adept at handling ambiguity
• Competence with MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio

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: 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.

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.