***Strategic Healthcare IT Consultant - Chicago, IL - Full-time / Part-time

What can YOU do with the right information? Optum Consulting provides services to external Healthcare organizations. Our group performs a number of project based services to help organizations solve their healthcare issues, help heal the health care system and create efficiencies which result in cost savings.  As a Strategic Healthcare IT Consultant you'll provide people, process and technology 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 more interesting 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
Create written and oral communication artifacts that effectively summarize findings, support fact based recommendations and provides appropriate detail to substantiate conclusions
Maintain work papers, project deliverables and other artifacts that can be recreated and leveraged as intellectual capital
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 (e.g. use case-based Business Requirements Documents with evidence demonstrating competence writing unique, code-able, testable business requirements; Requirements Traceability Matrix)
Assist in quality assurance and user acceptance testing by writing test scripts, executing test cases and documenting defects (e.g. test case development; active participation and oral communication through defect triaging, use of application lifecycle management tools through code promotion, such as Rally and ALM)
Develop financial models and tools, including cost-benefit analysis, resource utilization models and performance reports
Assess and recommend vendor products to client leadership
Support the creation of sales pursuit materials and other business development activities (e.g. proposals and Statements of Work (SOW's))
**Travel is required for this role. Our consultants typically travel Monday through Thursday but could leave on Sunday and return on Friday. Consultants work from a home office when not at the client site.**

Required Qualifications:



4+ years of experience in any of the following areas:


Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Project Management, and/or Business Process Improvement

3+ years of experience with software applications Systems Development Life-Cycle (SDLC), agile methodology, database management systems, and other business-related technologies

2+ years working in a Management Consulting/Professional Consulting organization

2+ years of client-facing experience

Ability to travel up to 80%

Based in Chicago area or ability to relocate at own expense to Chicago area
Preferred Qualifications:


Bachelor's Degree

Building/creating project deliverables with the ability to manage 2+ complex work-streams

Strong communication (written and oral), interpersonal, team, and conflict resolution skills

Healthcare experience
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: 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.
 
 
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