Job Description

Great sales are the result of strong purpose, conviction and pride - pride in your ability and your product. UnitedHealth Group offers a portfolio of products that are greatly improving the life of others. Bring along your passion and do your life's best work.(sm)

The Focused Analytics Program Manager will be responsible for the end to end success of client initiatives in this enterprise-wide pre-sale program. Coordinating across many cross-functional teams, this role will be highly visible, fast paced and give the opportunity to contribute directly to a meaningful client experience.

If you are located near Eden Prairie, you will have the flexibility to telecommute* as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Effectively build and maintain relationships with internal and external clients in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
* Provide clear communications (oral and written) and share knowledge at all levels of the organization
* Drive outcomes without direct authority, engaging team members in a cross-functional environment
* Communicate and disseminate critical information to appropriate audiences
* Facilitate status updates and review of programs to senior leadership teams and steering committees
* Create written and oral communication artifacts that effectively summarize findings, support fact-based recommendations, and provides appropriate detail to substantiate conclusions
* Collaborate with business and technology teams to define problems and develop reusable solutions
* Identify, build, and deploy project management principles and standards utilizing project management tools: Project Plan, IRAAD/Issue Log, Lessons Learned, Requirements Matrix, portfolio tracking, etc.
* Monitor and document initiative milestones and outcomes throughout the end to end program to ensure adherence to established quality standards
* Provide work stream/project oversight, manage, track issue resolution and make key decision recommendations
* Drive/participate in presentations and meetings with all levels of the organization within a virtual setting

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
* 2+ years of project/program management experience
* 2+ years of experience working in a professional organization with healthcare emphasis desired
* 3+ years of experience with MS Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Teams
* 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:

* Experience in a large matrix environment
* Experience in Tableau
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Ability to manage complex work streams

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: telecommute, project management, program manager