Job Description

Internship at UnitedHealth Group. If you want an intern experience that will dramatically shape your career, consider a company that's dramatically shaping our entire health care system. UnitedHealth Group internship opportunities will provide a hands-on view of a rapidly evolving, incredibly challenging marketplace of ideas, products and services. You'll work side by side with some of the smartest people in the business on assignments that matter. So here we are. You have a lot to learn. We have a lot to do. It's the perfect storm. And even better? Join us and you may end up staying for a career in which you can do your life's best work.(sm)

UHG Corporate Services 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 Corporate Services Team and you'll find yourself working among the companies most dynamic leaders; people who are decisive, brilliant and passionate about supporting the entity through innovative strategies. You'll have the opportunity for continuous learning while building a foundation of skills that will help create your life's best work.(sm)

Corporate Services includes roughly 400 employees in departments that provide vital support and partnership to UHG businesses and includes Enterprise Sourcing & Procurement, Enterprise Operations Strategy, Enterprise Real Estate Services, Enterprise Resiliency and Response and Strategic Planning & Analysis. Corporate Service departments provide innovative strategic planning and execution, analysis and reporting, using advanced big data tools, to ensure the enterprise operates at its highest potential. Examples include continually evolving sourcing strategies, streamlining processes to enhance our services across the entity, real estate planning that drives an efficient footprint through ongoing consolidation and state-of-the-art workplace efficiency, and business continuity planning that protects the revenue generation and service capabilities of the largest engines of UHG, worldwide.

As a UHG Corporate Services Senior Business Analyst, you will work closely with UHG Corporate Services management to participate in analysis that may include any of the following: commodity strategy leading to vendor requirement validation and selection across the entity (RFP and business case analysis), vendor oversight activities to ensure performance, safe and secure data, integration of acquired companies, innovative information technology planning, business case development for real estate or other funding proposals, long term real estate planning and investigating the success of workplace efficiency models, enterprise-wide process improvement projects, data management and reporting improvements to facilitate decision making. Candidates should be able to gather business information and synthesize it logically and analytically.

You will be empowered to support short and long term operational/strategic business activities; develop, enhance and maintain operational information and models that will have an impact on business decisions. In this leadership role, you will have the opportunity to take the contributions of analysts and create valuable solutions to improve the health care system.

Candidates have an opportunity to join us this summer and consider starting your career with us upon graduation. Full time opportunities exist across Corporate Services. You will be included in UHG's summer intern program which includes 1) working on a summer intern project presented to a board of UHG leaders; 2) lunch and learn sessions led by a variety of UHG leaders; 3) social responsibility events; and 4) other social activities to engage with UHG leaders and your internship peers.

Additional Responsibilities:

* Analyze, review, forecast, and trend complex data
* Review the analysis and interpretation of others work
* Oversee ad-hoc client and operational reports developed and presented by others
* Present analysis and interpretation for operational and business review and planning
* Support short and long term operational / strategic business activities through analysis
* Develop and implement effective / strategic business solutions through research and analysis of data and business processes

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 from an accredited college / university and currently enrolled in a Graduate degree program (MBA preferred) scheduled to finish by June 2022
* Minimum 3.00 cumulative GPA
* Must be willing to work out of Minnesota Corporate office during the summer of 2021
* 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)
* You will be asked to perform this role in an office setting, however, may be required to work from home temporarily due to space limitations
* Employees are 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 prior to entering the work site each day, in order to keep our work sites safe. 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:

* Experience gathering requirements from the client / business and documenting
* Experience with process improvement, workflow, benchmarking and / or evaluation of business processes
* Intermediate level of proficiency with PC based software programs and automated database management systems required (Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
* Ability to communicate analysis including trends and opportunities to clients and the business in writing and verbally
* Working knowledge of relational databases and database structures
* Strong history of quickly gaining credibility, partnering with business leaders and exhibiting executive presence
* Proven ability to articulate business strategies and formulate concise solutions to complex problems
* Excellent consultative, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
* Champion continuous change, consult with versatility, exhibit personal leadership and model a customer orientation
* Ability to effectively drive results in a dynamic, matrixed environment with a high degree of organizational change, growth and ambiguity

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: 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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