Senior Workforce Planning Analyst or Lead

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. 

Positions in this function are responsible for end-to-end business process activities – creating, controlling, and improving business processes. Leads process design and project implementation teams in process improvement activities. Diagnose process improvement opportunities and develop solutions using principles of process excellence and related tools. This position is also responsible for ticket triage, research and resolution of platform issues for NPM.  Also responsible for access tickets and other hierarchy inquires for NPM. May assist with designing, testing, facilitation, training and evaluation of NPM content. All other duties as assigned.

Telecommuter in US

Primary Responsibilities:

• Uses pertinent data and facts to identify and solve a range of problems related to user support for a set of performance management applications
• Investigates non-standard requests and problems, with minimal assistance from others
• Prioritize work in order to manage multiple task types and meet deadlines for all
• Be able to communicate easily with customers both to understand issue and explain the solution
• Expected to become a subject matter expert in assigned field, will need to fully learn initial overview, then independently test and troubleshoot different scenarios and share information and expertise
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate
• 2+ years of Microsoft Office Suite experience
• 2+ years of Excel experience
• Intermediate proficiency in SQL Server

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.

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