Strategic Initiatives Director - MA or MN - 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)
 
The Strategic Initiatives Director will be responsible for broad based projects driving critical business improvements across multiple disciplines.  This role will focus on investigating and solving gaps between business strategy and execution with regards to all aspects of solution delivery. The Strategic Initiatives Consultant is critical to helping to prepare the organization to meet the current and future needs of the marketplace.
 
Primary Responsibilities:

Direct responsibility for large scale program execution
Assess and identify operational gaps and priorities, synthesize complex issues and succinctly recommend actions/improvements, and build detailed plan for execution
Plan and conduct investigations to assess operational issues and effectiveness for process and performance improvement
Scope and design end to end solutions based on root cause identification
Navigate and partner with operations, technology, client delivery and other functional areas to build and implement solutions to address business performance gaps
Recommend appropriate measures and metrics to ensure stability of solutions
Implement and operationalize solutions running business elements to steady state

Required Qualifications:


10+ years working with business operational improvement, program management or financial and/or risk auditing
Bachelor's degree
Proven collaborator with strong relationship skills; the ability to influence and lead through others
Sets objectives and goals; detail-oriented and thorough; possesses strong operational disposition
Proven ability to establish trust and build relationships with leaders and experts across an organization
Ability to navigate ambiguity
Strong communicator (written and oral) with program teams and executive audiences
Ability to navigate matrixed and complex environments in and across teams
Ability to travel up to 50%
Candidate will be both a "thinker" and a "doer"
Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree
5+ years health services experience
Consulting experience as well as delivery 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: 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:  Program Management, Finance, Business, Risk Auditing, Consulting, Wakefield, MA, Massachusetts, Eden Prairie, Golden Valley, Minnetonka, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnesota, MN