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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Eden Prairie, MN
Eden Prairie, Minnesota

About this job


You are a thought leader who thrives on developing new solutions to solve tough challenges. As a critical member of our business analysis team, you will help rewrite the future of UnitedHealth Group. Here, your analytical and innovative skills will help us with our mission of helping people live healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. And we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel that mission. Are you ready to analyze data and deliver bold, business-savvy ideas to impact the lives of millions?

As a Business Analysis Consultant, you will be empowered to support short and long term operational/strategic business activities; develop, enhance and maintain operational information and models that will have an impact on business decisions. In this leadership role, you will have the opportunity to take the contributions of analysts and create valuable solutions to improve the health care system. Join us! Your passion for performance can fuel your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:



  • Ability to analyze large data sets and determine variable correlations, perform statistical analysis, perform data manipulations to deliver key insights

  • Ability to create process mapping and perform process analysis to generate operational measurements including cycle time, bottlenecks, efficiency, yield, Turn Around Times

  • Strong critical reasoning ability

  • Ability to influence senior leadership, management and line staff with proposals generated from data analysis

  • Deep knowledge of business ecosystem, processes and trends

  • Independent worker, ability to drive initiatives to completion working in a highly matrix environment

  • Extremely detail oriented

  • Strong deduction skills - uses fundamental analysis and reasonable judgments to arrive at answers, possibilities - comfortable in situations when missing details in order to make a decision or create a proposal/recommendation

  • Business case development experience

  • Experience in performing cost-benefit, root cause, correlation and forecasting analysis in an Operations environment

Requirements


Required Qualifications:



  • 5+ years experience with analyzing large data sets using statistical tools

  • Experience with data analysis and statistical tools such as SPSS, MiniTab or SAS

  • 5+ years of experience with SQL query writing using MS SQL Server or Oracle

  • Experience with relational databases and database structures

  • Experience writing Technical requirements based on business needs

Preferred Qualifications:



  • Experience leading teams of 5+ people

  • MBA a plus

  • Six Sigma Black Belt

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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