Business Process Consultant - Telecommuter

Do you want to Impact decisions to help people live healthier lives?

If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. At  UnitedHealth Group, we're changing the landscape of our industry. Here, you'll shift your leadership skills into a gear you didn't even know you had as a Business Process Consultant. You'll put your business analysis and project management skills to work as you empower business partners and team members to create and improve business processes. You will design processes, project implementations and diagnose process improvement opportunities as you develop innovative solutions.

You'll be in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people live healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. Yes, we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel that mission.Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in the development of business strategy


• Develop and manage business plans to achieve objectives


• Lead large, complex projects to achieve key business objectives


• Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences


• Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches


• May have segment-wide impact


• Direct cross-functional and/or cross-segment teams

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, Health Administration or related field preferred


• 5 + years of experience analyzing and solving customer problems in an office setting


• 5 + years in a technical or metrics based environment; preferably claims and/or customer service


• Project management experience


• Understanding of both HCFA and UB form types


• Understanding of basic claim billing guidelines


• Ability to work independently and manage own work schedule


• Ability to multi-task, this includes ability to understand multiple products and multiple levels of benefits within each product


• Moderate proficiency with computer and Windows PC applications, which includes the ability to learn new complex computer system applications

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Program management experience


• 4+ years MS Project, Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Visio


• Previous experience with SQL


• Previous Healthcare Industry experience


• Previous Team Lead or Project Lead experience

Careers with UnitedHealthcare. Let's talk about opportunity. Start with a Fortune 17 organization that's serving more than 85 million people already and building the industry's singular reputation for bold ideas and impeccable execution. Now, add your energy, your passion for excellence, your near-obsession with driving change for the better. Get the picture? UnitedHealthcare is serving employers and individuals, states and communities, military families and veterans where ever they're found across the globe. We bring them the resources of an industry leader and a commitment to improve their lives that's second to none. This is no small opportunity. It's where you can 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.

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