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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Eden Prairie, MN
Eden Prairie, Minnesota

About this job

Bring us your experience, your head for strategy, your strength with relationships and your eye for opportunity. In return we offer an unmatched place to grow and develop your career among a richly diverse group of businesses driven by the power and stability of a leading health care organization. Come help us heal and strengthen the health care system as you do your life's best work.(sm)
Sr. Associate General Counsel in Optum’s customer contracting team is primarily responsible for providing strategic leadership and complex contracting support for OptumInsight and OptumTechnology commercial contracting.  This role will have a high level of interaction with internal business units, external customers, vendors and strategic partners to provide timely updates and counsel on various legal and contractual issues.   Management experience, as well as experience advising companies in negotiation and drafting of complex technology and services agreements in the healthcare industry is preferred. 
  
Primary Responsibilities: 

Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and finalizing technology and services contracts with Optum customers
Providing leadership to, and being accountable for, the performance of other professional staff
Advising internal clients on product or contract-related legal issues
Developing streamlined contracting proceduresMaintain commercial agreements in corporate contract management system
Continuous process improvement of contract templates

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

Juris Doctorate (JD) degree
10+ years’ experience with reviewing, drafting and negotiating commercial customer contracts
Experience managing or supervising the work of other professionals
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization effectively
Demonstrated proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint
Strong customer service and interpersonal communication skills
Proven success in collaborating across a matrixed business and legal environment
Demonstrated understanding of business problems related to assigned legal projects
Excellent presentation skills
Ability to evaluate and determine appropriate legal course of action to meet business unit needs
Ability to build and maintain rapport with superiors, peers, subordinates, and external company contacts
 
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. 
  
Job Keywords:  technology, sales, contracting,  legal, Eden Prairie, MN, MinnesotaÂ