Associate Director, Business Analysis Eligibility - Eden Prairie, MN or Hartford, CT - Full-time / Part-time

If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and doing your life's best work.(sm)
 
Primary Responsibilities

Inspire, motivate and support Eligibility Consultant team
Lead the day to day activities of the team establish resource plans, milestones, tracking metrics and success measures
Define goals and objectives that increases knowledge and skills of the team, define team expectations
Planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance and guiding professional development
Foster a culture of accountability that emphasizes people and performance, coaching and development
Assure the team has a consistent understanding of business strategy
Proactively monitor operational performance; initiate and drive appropriate change in processes, tools and capabilities that increase efficiency and effectiveness while improving member experience
Ensure adherence to standards and procedures
Build and foster relationships to proactively resolve eligibility issues and drive quality

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
5+ years of experience in Business Analysis
4+ years of experience managing team members
3+ years of experience in Health Insurance and / or Eligibility
Preferred Qualifications:

Six Sigma training or experience
Project Management experience
Experience with QA testing
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.
 
 
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