Data Analyst - Remote

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Key Activities:

• Partner with analytical platform teams to ensure accuracy and efficiency in aggregation and alignment of foundational data assets needed to power operational analytics
• Support processes and accountability for the continuous rationalization of the health care system’s analytics portfolio
• Create and optimize analytics to support data-driven decision making across the organization
• Contribute to and create analytics that supports effective decision making across all health system sites of care and locations
• Design and implement content curation and dissemination best practices tailored to all levels of decision making (i.e. from real-time tactical decision making to long-term health system strategy)
• Promote the evolution of health system analytics to increase insight generation, root-cause identification, and best-practice adoption

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support efforts to create new analytical insights and capabilities related to operational effectiveness, quality, outcomes, performance, and other related areas
• Partner with analytical platform teams, data engineering, and data governance to support analytical best-practices and common standards
• Support prioritization efforts of competing business needs across the health system considering resource availability
• Ensure effective documentation processes throughout all the entire analytical lifecycle
• Partner with analytics insight team and principals to create solutions that effectively support all known requirements and effectively answer the relevant questions about performance and opportunities for optimization

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development opportunities.

Required Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree or 2 + years of equivalent work experience
• Proven willingness to travel up to 10%
• 1+ years of experience creating and deploying analytics using Business Intelligence tools, including data visualization, developing reports/dashboards, and self-service data tools.
• 1+ years of experience within a health care delivery system (e.g. hospitals, medical groups, post-acute care organizations, physician practices, ambulatory surgical centers, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Cerner EHR data models and reporting platform capabilities
• Experience and credibility interacting with all levels of leadership
• Proven ability to manage multiple initiatives or projects
• Experience creating advanced analytical methodologies or algorithms
• Experience in the health care ecosystem, including understanding the relationship between payers and providers, and how analytics enables transformation
• Proven ability to communicate complex concepts verbally and in writing
• Working knowledge of key health management related areas, e.g. network management, value-based care, population health, quality, compliance, provider engagement, etc.

Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges.

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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.