POSITION DESCRIPTION

UHG Ventures is pioneering a new category of venture capital. We are a business foundry; designing, starting up, and scaling businesses committed to driving disruptive, systemic change in the health care system. The UHG Ventures team operates as an independent fund of UnitedHealth Group while leveraging strategic dynamics to accelerate and advance investments. Our investments catalyze health care system changes that improve health outcomes, reduce medical costs, and create operating efficiencies for the health care system.

As a UHG Corporate Ventures intern, you will work closely with C-suite executives of UHG Ventures' portfolio companies to support strategic growth initiatives and operational improvements, and with UHGV's management to participate in new business building. New business building activities include market research and analysis, financial analysis, business plan formation, and deployment planning. Work with portfolio companies includes analyzing, recommending and deploying strategic initiatives and operational improvements, and mitigating business risks. Candidates should be able to gather business information and synthesize it logically and analytically, and be able to effectively communicate the resulting new insights.

UHG Ventures is a dynamic 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. Join us for a summer internship with the UHG Ventures Team and you'll find yourself working among the company's most dynamic leaders; people who are decisive, brilliant, and passionate about creating solutions to help people live healthier lives. You'll have the opportunity for continuous learning while building a foundation of skills that will help create YOUR LIFE'S BEST WORK.(SM)

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

During the course of the internship you will have a primary and secondary project involving a mix of existing portfolio company initiatives and new investment concepts. As discussed above, these projects encompass initiatives ranging from developing growth strategies, improving operations, and evaluating new investments. Working on these projects will require that you perform many if not all of the items listed below:

• Develop end to end strategic recommendations and attainable plans of action for portfolio companies
• Deliver clear, crisp, and comprehensive summaries of markets and associated opportunities and potential business plans
• Take ownership of key business initiatives for portfolio companies and maintain flexibility with evolving business priorities
• Develop relationships quickly with portfolio company executive management and outside parties to accomplish objectives
• Support UHGV team with quantitative and qualitative market and financial analysis
• Demonstrate resourcefulness in moving work forward; finding and harnessing resources, and meeting tight timelines
• Manage ambiguity in terms of deliverables and scope that is inherent in building and growing new businesses

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.

UnitedHealth Group is working to create the health care system of tomorrow. Already Fortune 5, we are totally focused on innovation and change. We work a little harder. We aim a little higher. We expect more from ourselves and from each other. And at the end of the day, we're doing a lot of good. Through our family of businesses and a lot of inspired individuals, we're building a high-performance health care system that works better for more people in more ways than ever. Now we're looking to reinforce our team with people who are decisive, brilliant - and built for speed. UHG Ventures, 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 a high performance team, in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do YOUR LIFE'S BEST WORK.(SM) Come to UnitedHealth Group, and share your ideas and your passion for doing more. We have roles that will fit your skills and knowledge. We have diverse opportunities that will fit your dreams. 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 862815

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Undergraduate degree from an accredited institution
• Currently pursuing an MBA from a top-tier program with a target graduation date no later than June 2021
• Ability to work as a summer intern at the UHG location in Minnesota during the summer of 2020
• 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:

• 2+ years of experience at an consulting firm or VC / PE firm
• Ability to think creatively and comfort being hands-on in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical, project management and problem solving skills
• Possess advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to work collaboratively and diplomatically with external and internal constituents
• Excellent business research skills
• Demonstrated leadership, academic performance and intellectual curiosity

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.