Senior Project Manager I - Remote

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us and help people live healthier lives while doing your life's best work.(sm)

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for supporting delivery of value-based care by working on strategically important projects to promote delivering the right care at the right value for our members. The Senior Project manager, you will be responsible for the coordination and completion of projects across functional areas working with key internal and external stakeholders; motivating and inspiring team members to achieve desired results.

On the one hand, no industry is moving faster than health care. On the other, no organization is better positioned to lead health care forward than Optum and UnitedHealth Group. That's what makes this opportunity so applause worthy. We have hundreds of business verticals across our matrixed organizations that are bringing thousands of new ideas, services, and products to the marketplace every year. Our goal is simple. Use data and technology to help drive change and make the health care system work better for everyone. When you join us as a Project Manager, you'll be engaged in a complex business model that is highly adaptable to build solutions that meet their customer needs in a competitive and effective way.

If you are located in Central Time Zone and Eastern Time Zone areas, you will have the flexibility to work remotely* as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Facilitate team meetings to monitor and review project milestones, recent accomplishments, and next steps while pushing accountability to resources throughout project lifecycle to ensure adherence to established project success metrics
• Develop, communicate, and implement program/project risk/issue management plans and strategies (e.g., IRAAD management of issues, risks, action items, assumptions, and decisions) with project team and stakeholders
• Ensure project documentation is accurate and complete, communications on project status is timely and risks and issues are identified timely and escalated to the appropriate parties
• Ensure projects are completed on time and within scope and holds team members accountable for their tasks within the project plane timeframe
• Lead cross-functional business teams to coordinate and complete assigned projects
• Utilize project management methodology to define scope, identify risk and ensure projects are completed on time
• Identify project duration and work effort required; Develop and maintain a project schedule that sequences tasks and dependencies required to meet project objectives
• Lead or help develop program or project scope statements, in consultation with applicable stakeholders within Product, Operations and/or IT (e.g., program/project charter)

This role will challenge your ability to work on complex projects where deadlines and scope shift frequently. You'll need flexibility, agility, and the ability to adapt to change while maintaining solid relationships with stakeholders in a highly cross-matrixed environment

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 for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be located in Central Time Zone or Eastern Time Zone
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Ability to travel up to 25% as needed for in person meetings
• Experience working with project stakeholders/business leadership team and presenting project status reports on overall project health throughout project lifecycle in highly matrixed environment
• Experience with technology delivery methodologies such as lean, waterfall, and agile
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining project quality controls
• 5+ years of project management experience using data and information to make business decisions
• Intermediate level experience with project planning tools, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a global, matrixed organization
• Experience using Smartsheet for project planning
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Experience in supporting Complex Medical Conditions and/or Physical Health
• Proven experience of successfully delivering projects in high pressure, deadline oriented environment
• Proven self-motivated, team player, action and results oriented
• Proven flexible, agile and adaptable to change while maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience driving process improvements

Careers at OptumCare. We're on a mission to change the face of health care. As the largest health and wellness business in the US, we help 58 million people navigate the health care system, finance their health care needs and achieve their health and well-being goals. Fortunately, we have a team of the best and brightest minds on the planet to make it happen. Together we're creating the most innovative ideas and comprehensive strategies to help heal the health care system and create a brighter future for us all. Join us and learn why there is no better place to do your life's best work.(sm)

OptumCare is committed to creating an environment where physicians focus on what they do best: care for their patients. To do so, OptumCare provides administrative and business support services to both owned and affiliated medical practices which are part of OptumCare. Each medical practice part and their physician employees have complete authority with regards to all medical decision-making and patient care. OptumCare’s support services do not interfere with or control the practice of medicine by the medical practices or any of their physicians.

Connecticut, New York, or Rhode Island Residents Only: The salary range for Connecticut, New York, or Rhode Island residents is $85,000 to $167,300. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

*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: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers 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.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.