Healthcare Data Consultant - Rocky Hill, CT or Telecommute - Full-time / Part-time

No industry is moving faster than health care. And no organization is better positioned to lead health care forward. We need attention to every detail with an eye for the points no one has considered. The rewards for performance are significant. You'll help improve the health of millions. And you'll do your life's best work.(sm)

The Analytics Consultant will work with senior consultants and client management/services to develop, execute, and deliver a wide range of analyses including program needs and opportunities assessments and program evaluations with recommendations for controlling costs, improving quality of care and reducing population risk. The Analytic Consultant will present analyses to clients as well as design and support clients' analytic/measurement and evaluation agenda.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contribute to building client relationships to achieve high client satisfaction,  and team revenue growth and profitability goals


• Demonstrate consulting and analytic capabilities and strengths to clients and internal client services team maintaining collateral and answering technical questions regarding analytic best practices


• Stay current on account managements' client business plans


• Work with analytics and client management team to interpret client needs and align needs with Optum's capabilities; this may involve participating on client calls to help initiate and win opportunities


• Help client teams mine client data to identify client needs


• Develop study outlines and proposals working with the broad Optum team on consistent analytic approach and methodologies ensuring they align with best practices, are relevant and meet clients' needs


• Help identify and define special processes and resources required for project work and provide input on work effort and pricing


• Work with team to develop feasible and efficient project plans and necessary documentation


• Work with team to obtain client project approvals participating in presenting proposals to clients and refining as necessary to help win opportunities


• Complete data work necessary to transform system generated data to information needed for presentations, analyze and interpret findings assuring consistency in data and make suggestions for drilldown analysis


• Build report exhibits, add findings to body of presentations and develop executive summaries


• Peer review client presentations ensuring they align with proposals, deliver value and actionable recommendations that align with clients strategy and views


• Work with team to deliver presentations to clients


• Work with team to deliver periodic topical communications to clients

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree


• 3+ years of project support, data analysis or client facing support


• 3-5 years healthcare experience


• Strong analytical talent, competence in Excel


• Competency in creating and delivering PowerPoint presentations


• Excellent interpersonal skills (including relationship management)


• Strong communication skills both verbal and written


• Project management skills and attention to detail


• Ability to analyze, and explain clinical and operational performance data

Preferred Qualifications:

• Post graduate degree


• Competence in Access

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)

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.

Job Keywords: Excel, Access, Healthcare, clinical data, administrative data, client management, Rocky Hill, CT