Begin your career at UnitedHealth Group and you'll get an opportunity to do something extraordinary with your first job out of school: 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. Start here.

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, part of OptumInsight, is a tailored program for recent master graduates who are interested in progressing their management career in the Health Care and consulting industry. The multi-year program includes the following:

• Rotational program focused on professional development, leadership, client and executive management in the health care ecosystem.
• Rotational opportunities will be provided in the payer and provider businesses in specific geographies, with the ability to influence final placement post rotations and the ability telecommute long term.
• Professional networking, executive exposure, and community outreach activities
• A dedicated professional mentor to help guide and shape your career path
• Opportunities to lead advisory teams in programs, projects, and areas of subject matter expertise
• Exposure to the most complex problems in health care through internal and external client work

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the creation of sales pursuit materials and other business development activities (e.g. proposals and Statements of Work (SOWs).
• Maintain work papers, project deliverables and other artifacts that can be recreated and leveraged as intellectual capital.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to define deliverables and develop solutions that are reusable across the organization.
• Work with clients to design and/or develop new product offerings.
• Support client implementations of products and/or services.
• Perform project management duties including the creation of status reports, work plans, project budgets, resource plans and presentations for client leadership.
• 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.
• Create written and oral communication artifacts that effectively summarize findings, support fact based recommendations and provides appropriate detail to substantiate conclusions.
• Develop financial models and tools, including cost-benefit analysis, resource utilization models and performance reports.
• Conduct research studies that may include collecting, analyzing, trending and presenting data and recommendations to management.

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 June 2020
• Must be willing to work out of MN, DC or TN office locations during rotations.
• 3+ years of professional full time experience
• Minimum 3.00 cumulative GPA
• Ability to travel up to 80% of the time as part of the OptumInsight Advisory Team
• 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) 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:

• 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.