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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Boston, MA
Boston, Massachusetts

About this job

We'll put you in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. We need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel ours. It's the opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

The Business Analyst will provide analytic support to Optum Analytics Clients and the Client Services team. The successful candidate for this position will be an analytic thinker, flexible problem-solver, excellent communicator and team player. 

 

Primary Responsibilities:


  • Become an expert in Optum Analytics application suite functionality, staying current with product information, changes and updates

  • Provide clients with consultative analytic support and recommendations

  • Drive client issues to resolution by engaging clients and internal teams to address application or data-related issues (including working closely with our Data Management, Clinical Informatics and Engineering teams)

  • Effectively articulate complex information to a variety of technical and non-technical users

  • Identify creative opportunities to solve client problems

  • Manage client communication around data related issues and questions

  • Develop and maintain an understanding of the healthcare priorities driving use of the Optum Solutions

  • Build an understanding of how data drives clinical and analytic applications

  • Serve as an analytic resource for Client Service Managers and other internal teams

Requirements


Required Qualifications:


  • Bachelors Degree

  • Ability to be flexible and work in a fast paced, dynamic environment

  • Comfortable learning new technology systems

  • Passionate about client satisfaction

  • Excellent work ethic, high attention to detail and strong written/verbal communication skills

  • Experience in managing or interfacing with clients/customers

  • Health care experience or knowledge base highly desirable
Preferred Qualification:

  • Health care experience or knowledge base highly desirable 

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 worlds 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: Analytics, Analyst, Business Analyst, Boston, MA, Massachusetts, Optum, Healthcare