Job Description

If you want to achieve more in your mission of healthcare, you have to be really smart about the business of healthcare. Which is why your performance and innovation will find a reception here like nowhere else as you help people live healthier lives while doing your life's best work.(sm)

In this role, you will be an integral part of the Optum Talent Analytics & Reporting team and report to the Senior Director of Optum Talent Analytics & Reporting. You will be a leader on the team and serve as a mentor and subject manager expert to other team members. You will partner across the matrixed Analytics Center of Excellence / community to lead complex projects and direct challenging work that will make meaningful contributions to deliver upon the human capital strategy supporting Optum's growth agenda.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Serve as a team mentor and influence without authority
* Utilize internal and external data to identify opportunities to improve business performance
* Simplify complex data into actionable insights
* Discover and communicate meaningful patterns in data and provide context, insights and analytics
* Proactive engagement with human capital leaders to track and improve employee-related metrics to measure the return on HC investments
* Collaborate with senior leadership, Organizational Design & Talent Development professionals, and stakeholders in the Talent Analytics community to inform solutions designed for lines of business and human capital strategy
* Interpret the results of data analyses and develop appropriate conclusions and recommendations to help guide people strategy and decision-making.
* Compile presentations to effectively synthesize and communicate results and implications of data findings and trends

Priorities will include:

* Enterprise-wide talent development
* Succession and mobility planning
* Inclusion & Diversity Capabilities
* Preparation for future growth and promotion of an inclusive and positive work environment
* Financial implications in workforce models

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.

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
* 10+ years of experience using conceptual data analytics to formulate hypotheses, determine assumptions to test, and interpret data / results
* 10+ years of work experience analyzing and interpreting data to provide insights
* 10+ years of consulting experience with customers and influencing leaders
* Expert in dashboard development
* Strong data acumen, including the ability to identify trends, anomalies, and points requiring additional investigation
* Ability to transform raw data sets into themes and action plans
* Expert skills in Microsoft Excel
* You will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's US Telecommuting Policy.
* If you need to enter a work site for any reason, you will be required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener. Employees must comply with any state and local masking orders. In addition, when in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are expected to wear a mask in areas where physical distancing cannot be attained.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Master's degree
* Healthcare industry knowledge
* Expert proficiency in statistical techniques
* Familiarity with human capital metrics / measures
* Consulting / client facing / client management experience
* Understanding of UnitedHealth Group business
* Strong communication skills
* Curiosity for learning and working in ambiguous environments
* High emotional intelligence
* Growth mindset

Careers at UnitedHealth Group. We have modest goals: Improve the lives of others. Change the landscape of health care forever. Leave the world a better place than we found it. Such aspirations tend to attract a certain type of person. Crazy talented. Compassionate. Driven. To these select few, we offer the global reach, resources and can-do culture of a Fortune 7 company. We provide an environment where you're empowered to be your best. We encourage you to take risks. And we offer a world of rewards and benefits for performance. We believe the most important is the 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.

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