Associate Director People Business Partner

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.

Key focus for the incumbent will be to drive solutions across talent priorities to engage and retain talent working with extended teams on initiatives around Organization Effectiveness, Career Path, Retention Strategy, People Cost management, culture journey etc. Key measure of success is to provide solutions to sustain employee retention & experience, improved leadership pipeline and diversity, improved manager effectiveness, manage cost via the right people levers etc.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Consulting Agility: Customizes Human Resource solutions that align with and address specific business strategies, structures, and challenges. Collaborates with leadership to evolve organization design in response to changing needs, threats and opportunities. Responsible for change leadership, talent coaching, solutions integration, stakeholder management, rand root cause analysis
• Business Fluency: Understands how the business operates, can identify and interpret levers that impact financial performance, as well as, translating business requirements into workforce needs leveraging data analytics. Creates processes and experiences that grow the capacity of the organization’s key people resources which include key talent identification, planning, development, and recruitment. Responsible for talent strategy, competitive awareness, global acumen, and networking
• Visionary Leadership: Contributes to the successful advancement of ideas that promote a positive culture within the organization. Identifies through elements of the work environment strategies to increase productivity, employee performance, and employee satisfaction and design metrics to track the effectiveness of these initiatives. Responsible for being a champion of culture, cultivating innovation, being resilient, and inspiring others
• Emerging Capabilities: Adapts to future work dynamics, social media savvy, design thinking, and gamification. Understands how to design solutions to create the simple and meaningful, end-user experience. Responsible for keeping pace with the radically changing nature of work
• Diversity & Inclusion: Integrates, aligns, and embeds Inclusion and Diversity Strategy within the People Strategy and all aspects of Human Capital Work
• 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:

• Master’s Degree in Human Resources or related field
• 12+ years of experience in Human Resources 
• Experience in developing and implementing workforce strategy, aligned with and driving business outcomes
• Experience creating and implementing organization design and change
• Solid competence in leading and driving the talent agenda, including developing a solid leadership bench

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a large, global, matrixed environment (GCCs)
• Advanced level of proficiency with MS Office
• Demonstrated history of positive employee experience through all aspects of Human Capital work

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.