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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Hartford, CT
Hartford, Connecticut

About this job

Our Product Development and Management groups are vital to our success and are leaders in driving the future growth of UnitedHealth Group. Success in these careers relies on many factors—your ability to deal with ambiguity, your ability to adapt and embrace change, and a long-term commitment to making health care better for everyone.

 

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)

 

Primary Responsibilities:


  • Serve as business and product lead for small to medium-size projects.

  • Assess and interprets customer needs and requirement.

  • Work with business segments to better define project requirements for development and implementation.

  • Sets priorities for the team to ensure task completion.

  • Support translation of business requirements into technical specifications.

  • Work with developers to get projects developed and implemented.

  • Coordinates work activities with other supervisors.

  • Develop and write client and product communications.

  • Participate in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with developers and business resources.

  • Identify solutions to non-standard requests and problems.

  • Solve moderately complex problems and/or conducts moderately complex analyses.

  • Work with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks

  • Owns output at task level.

  • Develops plans to meet short-term objectives

  • Identifies and resolves operational problems using defined processes, expertise and judgment.

  • Decisions are guided by policies, procedures and business plan.

  • Product, service or process decisions are most likely to impact individual employees and/or customers (internal or external).

 

 

Typical Day:

 

Candidate will play lead role in the management of regulatory-based and content-driven applications.  Candidate will work with Regulatory, HIM and Product team to understand business requirements and direct business and engineering process for application development.  Will work with provider and payer clients to define product roadmap. Will define product QA standards for each product release. Will be in charge of day-to-day operations including definition and prioritization of product roadmap, facetime with clients, ownership and leadership during issue escalations, and distribution of all commercial products and communications.

 

Requirements

Qualifications:


  • 5+ years of product and/or project management or development experience within a matrix organization

  • 3+ years of  working with commercial healthcare products (specifically HIM coding, editing, prospective payment system a plus)

  • 2+ years working with Agile SCRUM Development

  • Experience with web-based and desktop applications

  • Experience with professional writing and editing

  • Understanding of Commercial Software distribution

  • Strong knowledge base of web-based application installation, troubleshooting and deployments

  • Demonstrated Ability to manage and prioritize deliverables

  • Proven organizational skills with ability to be flexible and work with ambiguity

Soft skills:

 


  • Communication; work independently with little or no direction; collaborate with a team; critical thinking/creative thinking (complex problem, analyze it and provide solution)

 


 


 


 


Health care isn't just changing. It's growing more complex every day. ICD10 replaces ICD9. Affordable Care adds new challenges and financial constraints. Where does it all lead? Hospitals and health care organizations continue to adapt, and we are a vital part of their evolution. And that's what fueled these exciting new opportunities.

Optum360 is a dynamic new partnership formed by Dignity Health and Optum to combine our unique expertise. As part of the growing family of UnitedHealth Group, we'll leverage all our resources to bring financial clarity and a full suite of revenue management services to health care providers nationwide.

If you're looking for a better place to use your passion and your desire to drive change, this is the place to be. It's an 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, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.