Optum Claims Senior Project Manager - Telecommute

You love to challenge the status quo. You thrive on exceeding goals, always making things better than you found them. Bring that passion to UnitedHealth Group and join us on a mission to help people live healthier lives. As a Business Project Manager, you'll work alongside a high caliber team as you drive innovation and business forward. You'll roll up your sleeves as you coordinate complete projects, defining performance and results. When you get into the driver's seat of this role, you will show your expertise in determining time frames, allotment of staffing and funding resources and leading others in the organization to make meaningful process improvements. This is no small opportunity.

As a Senior Project Manager, you'll shift scope definition, risk identification, methodology and resource allocation to a gear you didn't even know you have. You'll take on tough challenges and create innovative solutions. Along the way, you'll grow and develop at a pace that energizes your career while you do your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and complete projects


• Define performance and results


• Manage vendors and service providers


• Demonstrate knowledge in Public Sector operational implementations


• Provide subject matter expertise in areas including project management, project scope definition, risk identification, project methodology, resource allocation,


• facilitation, and other areas of expertise based on professional knowledge and background


• Make presentations to management on project updates, project cycle, and expected results


• Ensure projects are completed on time and in scope


• Build strong working relationships with IT organization and acts as a business liaison to IT

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree


• 4+ years of project management experience


• 2+ years of project management experience across complex projects


• 3+ years in a senior business analyst role with crossover with project management


• 4+ years of experience in tracking, planning projects, working with large data sets and making data-driven analytical decisions


• Intermediate level of proficiency with MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint required; Visio and SharePoint preferred


• Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely


• Excellent time management, organizational, and prioritization skills and ability to balance multiple priorities


• Business analysis and requirement definition


• Public Sector knowledge


• Must be a self-directing leader that acts as a team player


• Superior analytical skills


• Ideally multiple claims platform exposure and knowledge - particularly, UNET, Cosmos, and Facets (CSP, OHBS Facets)


• Ability to stay committed to long-term project goals


• Proficient skills in building Executive level presentations, mostly ad-hoc timelines


• Ability to function in fast-paced environment while demonstrating compassion, building relationships and a strong ability to innovatively resolve complex issues


• Able to adjust quickly to change and identify impacts and solutions


• Healthcare experience, preferably insurance

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system 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, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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