Project Manager - Eden Prairie, MN or Overland Park, KS - Full-time / Part-time

No industry is moving faster than health care. And no organization is better positioned to lead health care forward than UnitedHealth Group. Here, we're on a mission to make the health care system work better for everyone. When you join us as a Project Manager, you'll drive innovation forward, impacting millions of lives. This is the opportunity to grow and develop, bring all your study, all your training and your energy to a new level.
As a Project Manager, you'll work within our business model that is highly adaptable, allowing you to quickly and effectively address emerging needs in a changing health care landscape.If your heart starts pounding when you realize the impact you can have by bringing your skills to a team made up of some of the smartest people you'll ever work with, then join us for something special. Join us as we continue to take on challenges and create innovative solutions. The rewards for performance are significant. You'll help improve the health of millions as you do your life's best work.(sm)
Primary Responsibilities:

Involved with initiatives crossing business teams and operating groups to coordinate projects,define performance, and drive results
Investigate non-standard requests and problems
Participate in and facilitate project meetings
Make presentations to leadership and take pride in completing projects on time and within scope
Provide solution analysis and design meetings for enhancements and implementations
Work closely with IT and provide UAT testing

Required Qualifications:

BA/BS degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or related field and/or equivalent education and work experience
2+ years of project management experience
2+ years experience in tracking, planning projects, working with large data sets and making data-driven analytical decisions
Less than 25% travel or as needed
Intermediate level of proficiency with MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and SharePoint
Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely.
Demonstrated ability to prioritize and balance multiple priorities and projects
Preferred Qualifications:

Strong Initiative
Excellent Communications skills
Accountable / Timely
Adaptable to Change
Self-Directed
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: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and 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.
 
Job Keywords: accounting, project management, tracking, planning, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, MN, Overland Park ,Kansas, KS