Healthcare Payer and/or Provider Consultant- Hartford, CT (highly preferred) or Telecommute - Full-time / Part-time

What can YOU do with the right information? At OptumInsight, the possibilities and the impact are limitless. You'll be empowered to ask more questions, develop better solutions and help make the health care system greater than ever. It's always fresh. It's always exciting.

As a Senior Consultant you'll provide consulting services to strengthen and improve health care operations that result in stronger financial returns and a healthier health care system. You'll use your strong strategic and business acumen to work closely with clients to define, develop and document business requirements to ensure needs are captured and critical deliveries are executed. This consulting career gives you the opportunity to travel and share in a mission that inspires. You'll see your ideas come to life and your achievements recognized. You won't find tougher challenges. And you won't find smarter people working together to solve them. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business and technology departments to define deliverables and develop solutions that are reusable across the organization


• Conduct research studies that may include collecting, analyzing, trending and presenting data and recommendations to management


• Perform project management duties including the creation of status reports, work plans, and presentations to client leadership


• Identify and document business process re-engineering opportunities including current and future state process flows


• Define, develop and document business requirements to ensure clients needs are captured and delivered


• Participate in quality assurance and user acceptance testing by writing test scripts, executing test cases and documenting defects


• Develop financial models and tools, including cost-benefit analysis, resource utilization models and performance reports


• Produce job aids, training material and instruction manuals for end-users

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a business or computer-related field preferred


• 3+ years working in a Professional Consulting organization


• 3+ years Healthcare with strong preference given to Payer side experience


• At least 3+ years' experience in any of the following areas:   




• Program Management, Project Management, Project Coordination, Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Business Process Improvement


• Solid understanding of the Systems Development Life-Cycle (SDLC)


• Knowledge of software applications, database management systems, and other business related technologies highly preferred 


• Strong communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills


• Ability to travel up to 80% required


• Location near Minneapolis, MN or Hartford, CT  highly preferred

Travel is required for the role, but location is flexible. Travel is typically out on Monday and back late Thursday with work from home when not at the client.

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.

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