Senior Digital Health Project Manager - Telecommute - Full-time / Part-time

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. Along the way, you'll grow and develop at a pace that energizes your career while you do your life's best work.(sm)

The Senior Digital Health Project Manager is responsible for implementing Digital Services / Rally to new and existing clients using a customer-centric approach across all market segments. This leader will interface directly with customers, channel partners, vendors, internal stakeholders and senior leadership to execute project management activities, communicate status and escalate as appropriate. Furthermore, he or she will be responsible to identify and lead process improvement activities cross functionally.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Primary contact for clients during the requirements and implementation process


• Engage cross functional teams and be an effective change agent


• Partner with products and services to manage and prioritize client needs and implement solutions


• Integrate implementation strategy across all Care Solutions products for complex health solutions


• Collaborate across Optum and UnitedHealth Group


• Develop and present presentations / demos to clients


• Identify and proactively monitor customer risks, implement mitigation / action plans and communicate to senior leadership


• Conduct successful customer readiness reviews of complex health solutions


• Monitor, track issues and report project status and performance to stakeholders


• Drive results individually and in a team setting


• Conduct meetings with customer sponsors and stakeholders


• Adopt and drive best practice

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree


• 5+ years working as a Project Manager


• 3+ years direct client service experience


• 3+ years of analytical experience


• Technical experience with web and digital based solutions


• Excellent communication and presentation skills


• A successful track record of managing multiple projects effectively along with the proven ability to execute projects and achieve desired results


• Solution oriented with a focus on innovative approaches to resolve customer problems and issues


• Proven ability to execute projects and achieve desired results


• Experience managing and influencing cross-functional teams


• Adaptable and able to move within a changing environment in a large complex organization managing change, innovation, ambiguity, and urgency


• Project management certification or in process


• Intermediate level of proficiency with MSWord, MSProject, Excel, PowerPoint required; Visio and Sharepoint preferred


• Ability to travel (potential 10% travel)

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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