Job Description

UnitedHealthcare is a company that's on the rise. We're expanding in multiple directions, across borders and, most of all, in the way we think. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about transforming the health care industry. Ready to make a difference? Make yourself at home with us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

The Clinical Strategy organization, part of Government Programs, addresses member's clinical needs with measurable solutions based on deliberate activities that deliver value to our consumer/ client, the business and each other as fellow co-workers. This role works with the newly developed Home Health Hub Project Team that is growing!

By working with key partners throughout M&R, Digital, Operations, Shared Services, Technology and more, we plan to transform the clinical digital space through a personalized digital health strategy driving an end-to-end experience for our members while reducing medical cost, delivering operational value, and positively enabling the member throughout their entire health journey.

Striving to deliver value to members by making the health care system work better for them and their families, this organization is evolving its core clinical digital capabilities. Central to this organization is accomplishing above with teamwork inspired by a culture of innovation, curiosity, and collaboration.

Position Overview:
This role is working to deliver the Digital 2.0 strategy to our Medicare members by supporting for one of the main workstreams to engage members digitally with personalized, relevant experiences. As a Capability Manager, you will become an expert at understanding member and provider problems and using that understanding to optimize user experiences on our digital structures. You will identify opportunities for developing solutions, and then design and implement these solutions, working with engineering to see products and features through the full life cycle. Being a Digital 2.0 Capability Manager requires alignment with business and/or product strategy, effective design and development, and ongoing management of capability portfolio across the full lifecycle to ensure business-specific or cross-enterprise impact.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

* Lead product strategy, synthesizing line of business market needs and competitive analysis and formulating product direction and roadmaps

* Serve as a subject matter expert to internal stakeholders on specific marketplace and IT topics / issues - collaborate with internal leaders and external business partners to gain understanding of their business needs and adapt product strategy and business plans and priorities to address business and operational challenges
* Support various engineering and project management functions by acting as a liaison between business, product, and development teams to help reduce redundant efforts, increase reuse of existing components, and identify opportunities during design to ensure components are built in such a way as to support external marketability
* Manage and ensure compliance with product management, software engineering, and IT structures / processes / technologies.
* Grow and maintain knowledge of and leverage product management, big data engineering & analytics, software engineering, and IT industry / marketplace technologies and trends
* Define Minimum Viable Product features needed for new capabilities
* Lead and work within agile development teams to identify and support core competencies and key features and function
* Play an active role in release and sprint planning to ensure the requirements are tracked and delivered on time and within scope
* Seek to learn the business you are supporting and own its evolution holistically. Drive to understand the What and Why and connect the benefit of technology to the business capability and be able to clearly articulate this to technical and non-technical stakeholders
* Generally, work is self-directed and not prescribed
* Works with less structured, more complex issues
* Serves as a resource to others

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:

* 5+ years of relevant healthcare experience in product or program management role
* Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
* Ability to lead translating customer needs into product design documentation including features, user stories, product capabilities and market requirements
* 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 similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener. When in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are required to wear a mask in common areas. In addition, employees must comply with any state and local masking orders

Preferred Qualifications:

* Undergraduate degree

* Experience navigating complex problems and crafting unique and scalable solutions
* Experience working in a decentralized workplace environment, and in supporting remote teams

Careers at UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement. The Boomer generation is the fastest growing market segment in health care. And we are the largest business in the nation dedicated to serving their unique health and well-being needs. Up for the challenge of a lifetime? Join a team of the best and the brightest to find bold new ways to proactively improve the health and quality of life of these 9 million customers. You'll find a wealth of dynamic opportunities to grow and develop as we work together to heal and strengthen our health care system. Ready? It's time to do your life's best work.(sm)

Colorado Residents Only: The Salary range for Colorado residents is $79,700 to $142,600. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. As of the date of this posting, In addition to your salary, UHG offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Health, dental, and vision plans; wellness program; flexible spending accounts; paid parking or public transportation costs; 401(k) retirement plan; employee stock purchase plan; life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance; business travel accident insurance; Employee Assistance Program; PTO; and employee-paid critical illness and accident insurance.

*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.

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