Job Description

If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and doing your life's best work.(sm)

Clinical Performance is charged with effectively implementing, monitoring, and executing on programs related to driving affordability, clinical quality and risk adjustment activities across all lines of business for OptumCare a ~$9billion a year organization, touching over 9 million patients, 80 payers, and 22,000 providers.

This position for a Data Analyst will report into the Clinical Performance Director of Data and Analytics and will be responsible for working directly within the business unit to brainstorm, make recommendations, design and build analytics solutions for issues facing our internal business and external business partners. You must be self-directed and creative as you will deal with some very interesting and complex issues. As a key resource to others you must maintain a high degree of accuracy along with attention to detail, excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills and the ability to always meet deadlines.

On a daily basis, you will understand and interpret business requirements and translate into data modeling and reporting initiatives. Keep up with changes to CMS risk models, and manage and account for downstream impact. Ensure research/analyses are useful and accurate, and clearly communicate findings to leadership. Quickly comprehend and understand complex interrelationships of data to inform analytics solutions. Appropriately interpret and communicate results. Build trusted relationships with all everyone and be a reliable source of valuable information.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

* Detecting and addressing data issues, and solving data quality problems.
* Analyzing data and creating compelling reports / visualizations and presentations to assist decision-making capabilities
* Adapting standard or developing novel applications of classification, trending, forecasting, simulation, optimization, and summarization techniques.
* Developing successful methodologies for analyzing and presenting data.
* Performing research and providing adhoc results to management
* Design, build, and maintain SQL and SSIS efforts that help support and facilitate business efforts.
* Work with business to understand their requirements and need, design an appropriate solution, build out processes as needed, and maintain technology processes to support business efforts.
* Perform analytics to identify best business practices based on current and historical data
* Coordinate with national and market leaders to assess and track outcomes
* Improve existing Processes to better align with changing operations and business needs
* Develop innovative ways to address and appropriately prioritize the varying information needs
* Monitor and report on program performance and outcomes.

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:

* Undergraduate degree or equivalent
* 5+ years of experience in an analytical role creating and maintaining reports, maintaining queries, drawing conclusions, and making recommendations
* 5+ years of experience writing SQL queries, tables, and stored procedures
* 5+ years of data reporting/analysis experience
* Intermediate knowledge working with SSIS
* Basic knowledge building database reports
* Experience creating analytic models for specific business purposes such as forecasting, ROI, etc.
* Experience using visualization tools such as Tableau
* Experience working with MS Excel including formulas, calculations, pivots
* Ability to work independently and in a team environment to deliver
* Ability to prioritize tasks, multi-task, and solve problems under tight deadlines
* 10% travel: to conferences / large meetings as needed
* 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:

* Strong knowledge of CMS Medicare Risk Adjustment
* Knowledge of managed care and government pay for performance programs
* Experience in handling and managing large volumes of data
* Intermediate knowledge working with VBA or .NET
* Experience in healthcare, understanding of Medicare Advantage/Risk Adjustment, Affordability/Medical Savings and Quality/STARS/HEDIS
* Experience working in a fast-paced, challenging environment

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)

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

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 Keywords: Data Analytics, SQL, Reporting, Visualization tools, Telecommute, Telecommuter, Telecommuting, Work from home, Work at home, Remote