Advisory Services Analyst, Consultant Development Program – Multiple Locations

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. 

Begin your career at UnitedHealth Group and you’ll get an Early Careers consulting opportunity to do something extraordinary with your first job out of school: make a real difference: helping millions of people live healthier lives and making health care work better for everyone. Change the landscape of health care forever. Leave the world a better place than we found it. Such aspirations attract a certain type of person. Crazy talented. Brilliant. Compassionate. Curious. Driven. To these select few, we offer a global reach, resources, and a can-do culture. You’ll find a world of career options fueled by your performance and limited only by your imagination. Start here.

Here’s the idea. We built focused businesses, inside UnitedHealth Group, organized around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. Through our two business platforms, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, we work to improve the health care system and advance the health and well-being of individuals and communities so that they can enjoy better, fuller lives. For you, that means working on high performing teams solving sophisticated challenges. It’s a culture of optimism that’s unlike any place you’ve ever worked. Many incredible ideas in one incredible company.

Advisory Board, a division of Optum Insight, is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the U.S. health care system. For over 40 years, we’ve helped executives and future leaders in the health care industry work smarter and faster by providing provocative insights, actionable strategies, and practical tools to support execution. Our core products include research membership, events, expert support, custom research, and sponsorship. Learn more about Advisory Board.  

What can YOU do with the right information? At Optum, your possibilities and your impact are limitless. No matter what your role is, you’ll be empowered to ask more questions, develop better solutions, and help make the health care system greater than ever. It’s always fresh. It’s always exciting. And it’s never been more important.

**The full-time position located in Eden Prairie, MN, Nashville, TN or Washington, DC will be available starting in Summer 2025**

**UnitedHealth Group is not able to offer visa sponsorship now or in the future for position**

**Relocation is not offered for the Consultant Development Program**

The Consultant Development Program (CDP) is an Early Careers program for recent college graduates who are interested in developing and deploying client-facing, problem-solving and presentation skills with health care clients. The Consultant Development Program sits within Optum Advisory and allows for early career professionals to experience a diversity of health care clients through a variety of engagements. CDP participants will work with Advisory Board teams across a variety of functions including research and client services to support top business priorities, while simultaneously receiving mentorship and formal training in key consulting competencies. Program completion includes alignment into a full-time Advisory Board role or Optum Advisory practice and typically takes 1.5-2.5 years to complete. 

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Working directly with our internal and external clients to help determine needs and solve complex business problems by performing the following types of activities:
  • Enable strategic business transformation through the application of Advisory Board research and insights to help our client’s address their most complex problems 
  • Conduct research & stakeholder interviews that may include collecting, analyzing, trending and presenting data and recommendations to clients
  • Navigate client facing interactions, presentations and relationship building in scenarios of project delivery, social situations, research, and at times ambiguity
  • Promote project success with presentation creation and project management duties, including meeting management, project planning, and delivery
  • Partner with internal and external stakeholders by using clear, concise and effective written and oral communication
  • Grow in specific areas of interest and develop subject matter expertise 
  • Develop and support in the delivery of client facing presentations 
  • Provide support and information to clients making strategic decisions and implementing enhancements to their organizations’ strategy, productivity, performance, and long-term profitability
  • Support the success of Advisory Board’s key products including expert support, syndicated research, custom research, and sponsorship
• Advisory Board provides support to a wide range of health care clients. Some example projects might include:
  • Conducting custom research projects on a variety of topics ranging from workforce assessments to consumer market insights to support our members across provider, life sciences, payer, and other healthcare organizations. Custom research includes qualitative and quantitative research inputs and close internal collaboration to distill key findings and insights to meet our client’s needs
  • Supporting long-term research cycles across key topic areas such as value-based care, service line trends, and digital health. Across these research cycles analysts will have the opportunity to build deep topic expertise, conduct interviews, and create written deliverables and collateral for events
  • Designing content for Advisory Board’s website across a variety of deliverable types including written and graphical elements. Sample content types include expert insight articles, market trend reports, sponsored deliverables, and cheat sheets
  • Engaging directly with Advisory Board members (clients) to provide expert support, answer their questions, and demonstrate the value of Advisory Board research to meet their strategic goals and priorities

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:

• Bachelor’s degree earned within the past 24 months from an accredited college/university; coursework to obtain degree must be completed prior to start of employment and verified within 6-8 weeks following the date at your school
  
• Business Acumen and Basic Data Analysis experience
  
• Ability to work in office on a hybrid schedule (2 days home/3 days in office) in one of our 3 locations (Eden Prairie, MN, Nashville, TN or Washington, DC) for the duration of the program
  
• Ability to Travel up to  25% for the Consultant Development Program, dependent on project needs and location 
  
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment-based work authorization (F-1 students with practical training and candidates requiring H-1Bs, TNs, etc. will not be considered) F-1 visa holders with Optional Practical Training (OPT) who will require H-1B status, TNs, or current H-1B visa holders will not be considered. H1-B and green card sponsorship is not available for this position

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3.0 GPA or higher
• Healthcare experience 
• Proven intellectual Curiosity

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

The salary range for this role is $59,500 to $116,600 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. 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.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations. 

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