Senior Project Manager - Optum - Eden Prairie MN

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

Position ensures Optum business processes meet Internal or External compliance regulations, directly interfaces with clients in order to achieve product/solution delivery and essential to meet performance standards in relation to client agreements/expectations.

The Senior Project Manager will join our OptumHealth Business Operations team. This position will primarily be responsible for supporting the expansion and innovation of an operational team and the tools that support their work, with the opportunity to gain high-level exposure by working with internal and external customers. Furthermore, this role will lead issue tracking and resolution.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Manage issue resolution with internal teams and external issues.
Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects across various functional areas.
Work on development of process improvements.
Provide subject matter expertise in areas including project scope definition, risk identification, project methodology, resource allocation, facilitation, and other areas of expertise based on established project management techniques.
Make presentations to management on project updates, project cycle, and expected results.
Ensure projects are completed on time and in scope.
May manage vendor and service providers to define project scope and performance expectations. - Generally work is self-directed and not prescribed.
Work with less structured, more complex issues.

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience Preferred
4+ years of project management experience required.
Healthcare industry experience is required.
Experience in tracking, planning projects, working with large data sets and making data-driven analytical decisions.
Intermediate level of proficiency with MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint.
Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely.
Excellent time management, organizational, and prioritization skills and ability to balance multiple priorities.
Significant experience managing issue resolution is strongly preferred.
Experience with external client facing and/or account management is desired.

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system 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, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.

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