Executive Administrative Assistant - Optum Technology - Executive Leadership Support - Minnetonka, MN - Full-time / Part-time

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)

Provide administrative support to the Optum Technology leadership team in a manner consistent with the highest levels of performance and professionalism.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides administrative support to assigned leaders. Plans, schedules, and organizes key meetings, travel, and conferences for the executive and their leadership teams


• Deals with all incoming calls and inquires, and answers questions, or directs to the appropriate person or function within the business to resolve


• Handles calendar management for assigned leaders, ensures that schedules are reviewed daily, and that conflicts are resolved timely and appropriately


• Coordinates department wide meetings including scheduling, agenda, and other materials as required


• Manages email and associated correspondence as required


• Ensures presentations are formatted for executive consumption and compliant with company standards (e.g. fonts, color scheme)


• Compiles and integrates information needed to complete reports/documents and manages storage and archiving on appropriate systems


• Processes expense reports and performs BSL functions for team


• Use extensive work experience, possibly in multiple functions


• Coordinates others' activities


• Mentors and acts as a resource for others


• Work independently, often times without established procedures

Values Based Competencies:

• Collaboration: Develops and maintains productive working relationships, actively shares information, and expertise with team members


• Performance: Puts in extra effort to accomplish critical tasks, stays focused, overcoming obstacles to achieve outcomes required, has a strong commitment to quality and accuracy, as well as managing time effectively


• Focus on Customers: Consistently meets or exceeds customer expectations, identifies or develops new processes to enhance customer outcomes


• Communication: Listens carefully and asks clarifying questions and conveys information in clear manner


• Performance: Makes logical fact based decision as well as analyzing problems to understand root cause issues and solutions

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of administrative support experience


• Proven experience supporting executive leaders and their teams


• Proven project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple projects


• Exceptional travel arrangement skills


• Strong MS office skills (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)


• Proven interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, with the ability to diplomatically resolve conflict with tact and sensitivity


• Ability to work in a flexible, changing environment


• Strong problem solving skills with the ability to independently find solutions

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place 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.