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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location McAllen, TX
McAllen, Texas

About this job

This isn't packaged goods. It's a bigger challenge than that. Here you're making a difference in people's lives, starting with your own. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)


 


Primary Responsibilities:



  • Uses pertinent data and facts to identify and solve a range of problems within area of expertise

  • Investigates non-standard requests and problems, with some assistance from others

  • Works exclusively within a specific knowledge area

  • Prioritizes and organizes own work to meet deadlines

  • Provides explanations and information to others on topics within area of expertise

  • Collaborates with the market leadership to create an action plan for territory activities and community outreach; designs, creates and executes marketing activities to support growth and retention goals; reviews marketing activities with appropriate market leadership and obtains approval

  • Identifies opportunities with the Medicare eligible population in person or telephonically, and obtains appropriate consent for ongoing contact to promote the health care delivery system

  • Provides support to the clinics for events, training, and collaterals and other duties to be assigned

  • Maintains a professional relationship with community contacts/agencies, health care delivery system administration, physicians and other staff as well as local contracted health plan staff

  • Conducts group presentations at various events or community/professional meetings to generate leads and raise awareness of the WellMed health care delivery system

  • Completes all necessary reports and deliverables as requested by leadership according to established deadlines

  • Participates actively in staff and operational development meetings and training sessions

  • Assists in the implementation and development of marketing strategies based on requests from market leadership regarding all communications objectives; effectively creates databases and manages assigned budgets with productive ROI results

  • Collaborates with outside vendors as needed to fulfill program initiatives

  • Ensures alignment between brand-building, positioning and direct-response objectives; manages promotional campaigns through various media organizations to ensure the proper message is presented

  • Supports the development of marketing and advertising schedules, maintains and meets deadlines and budgetary requirements

Requirements

Required Qualifications:



  • High School diploma

  • 3+ years of experience in event planning or marketing within a matrix organization

  • Intermediate level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint

  • 3+ years of experience in a deadline driven environment

  • 3+ years of experience using communications and interpersonal skills (internal/external)

  • 3+ years of experience in meeting sales promotion/marketing targets

  • 3+ years of experience using organizational skills

  • Ability to be flexible and work with ambiguity

Preferred Qualifications:



  • Experience working in Provider relations or with providers/physicians in some capacity

  • Bilingual in Spanish

WellMed is a healthcare delivery system serving more than 90,000 patients, primarily Medicare eligible seniors, in Texas and Florida through primary care clinics, multi-specialty clinics, and contracted medical management services. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, WellMed is an industry leader in medical risk management, highly effective disease management and chronic care programs, healthcare delivery services and more.


 


Our focus and mission is to help the sick become well and to help patients understand and control their health in a lifelong effort at wellness. We are innovators in preventative healthcare, striving to change the face of healthcare delivery for seniors. Our providers and support staff are selected for their dedication to the senior population and focus on preventative, proactive patient care.


 


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.


 


Job Keywords: outreach, marketing, event planning, McAllen, Texas, TX