Sr Business Analyst - Remote

Optum Home & Community Care, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is creating something new in health care. We are uniting industry-leading solutions to build an integrated care model that holistically addresses an individual’s physical, mental and social needs - helping patients access and navigate care anytime and anywhere.
As a team member of our HouseCalls product, we provide annual clinical assessments to patients in the comfort of their homes. This important preventive care helps identify and reduce health risks for patients, in addition to coordinating appropriate follow-up care to improve health and well-being.
We’re connecting care to create a seamless health journey for patients across care settings. Join our team, it’s your chance to improve the lives of millions while doing your life’s best work.(sm)
In this role you will have the ability to achieve work life balance. Flexible scheduling offered where providers can flex their time over the 7-day work week. No on-call, no weekends and no holidays required.
We’re hiring a Senior Business Analyst to join our team at Optum, in Home and Community.
As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be responsible for supporting a variety of strategic initiatives which enhance our clinical network. This role will work closely with Clinical Leadership, Finance, Training, and Innovation Operations to maximize operating efficiencies and create seamless experiences for the members we serve. This role will also require you to build a narrative around the clinical network and demonstrate knowledge regarding strategy, execution, and alignment to maximize performance, achieve client targets, and sustain long-term operating discipline.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities

• Ability to manage uncertainty, complexity and competing priorities
• Develops process workflows and standard operating procedures
• Analyze and interpret data to identify trends, patterns and opportunities for the business and clients
• Facilitation of stakeholder meetings, data analysis, and the creation of compelling presentation to communicate key findings
• Communicate analysis and interpretation to appropriate audiences
• Conduct workforce planning and management analysis to determine what gaps exist between the current and projected workforce needs in the short-term and long-term to develop mitigation strategies

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

• 3+ years of demonstrated ability to develop, collect, analyze, and report on workforce, mission, and other external and internal data
• Experience in analysis of business process and workflow and providing an evaluation, benchmark and/or process improvement recommendations
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in business
• Intermediate to advance abilities in Microsoft Excel
• 3+ years of turning data into a story and presenting to executive level leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously
• 3+ years of demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills, detail orientation, and the ability to quality check own work
• Health plan or healthcare experience
• Experience in improving network efficiency

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.
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island or Washington 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: 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.