Associate 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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Associate People Business Partner (AD -PBP) serves as a strategic advisor and trusted thought partner to executive leaders, driving enterprise-wide people, talent, and organizational strategies that accelerate business growth, workforce transformation, organizational effectiveness, and leadership excellence. This role partners with senior executives to shape the future workforce, build organizational capabilities, and enable sustainable business performance through data-driven insights, talent innovation, and AI-enabled people strategies.
As a key member of the People Leadership ecosystem, the PBP influences enterprise decisions related to workforce planning, organizational design, culture transformation, succession, leadership effectiveness, digital transformation, and future-of-work initiatives across a complex global organization.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Executive Business Partnership
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to Executive, VP, and senior leadership teams on business strategy, organizational health, workforce effectiveness, and leadership decisions.
  • Translate business strategy into integrated people, talent, and organizational priorities that drive measurable business outcomes.
  • Challenge and influence leadership thinking through market intelligence, workforce insights, and external best practices.
  • Anticipate business, talent, and organizational risks and develop proactive mitigation strategies
  • Act as a catalyst for enterprise transformation by aligning people strategies with long-term business objectives
• Enterprise Talent & Leadership Strategy
  • Architect talent strategies that strengthen organizational capability, leadership pipelines, and succession readiness
  • Lead executive talent reviews, succession planning, and enterprise talent prioritization discussions
  • Partner with senior leaders to accelerate leadership effectiveness and build high-performing teams
  • Drive differentiated talent strategies for critical capabilities and future growth areas
  • Establish retention and engagement strategies for top talent and mission-critical roles
• Workforce Transformation & Future of Work
  • Lead enterprise workforce planning efforts to ensure future capabilities align with evolving business and market demands
  • Advise leaders on workforce transformation, capability shifts, and operating model evolution driven by technology and business change
  • Shape strategies for skills-based organizations, talent mobility, workforce agility, and future workforce readiness
  • Guide workforce decisions related to globalization, automation, and organizational scalability
  • Align workforce investments with long-term business priorities and capability requirements
  • AI, Digital Transformation & Workforce Modernization
  • Partner with business leaders to enable AI-driven workforce transformation and organizational modernization initiatives
  • Advise executives on the people implications of Generative AI, automation, intelligent workflows, and emerging technologies
  • Lead workforce readiness strategies supporting AI adoption, reskilling, capability transformation, and leadership preparedness
  • Utilize predictive analytics, workforce intelligence, and AI-powered insights to inform strategic workforce and talent decisions
  • Drive change adoption strategies that enable sustainable integration of AI and digital technologies across teams and functions
  • Champion a culture of innovation, learning agility, and continuous workforce evolution
• Organizational Effectiveness & Transformation
  • Lead enterprise organizational design initiatives that enhance agility, accountability, and business performance
  • Influence operating model decisions and organizational structures to optimize workforce productivity and effectiveness
  • Sponsor and lead large-scale transformation programs impacting culture, talent, operations, and workforce models
  • Drive organization health assessments and implement interventions that improve performance and leadership effectiveness
  • Serve as a change leader through periods of growth, transformation, acquisition, restructuring, and strategic change
• People Analytics & Strategic Insights
  • Leverage advanced workforce analytics and predictive insights to influence executive decision-making
  • Build compelling executive narratives that connect talent investments, workforce trends, and business performance
  • Identify leading indicators of talent, engagement, productivity, and organizational risk
  • Guide leaders in utilizing data to drive evidence-based talent and organizational decisions
  • Establish workforce metrics that measure organizational capability, effectiveness, and transformation progress
• Culture, Engagement & Employee Experience
  • Shape a high-performance culture that balances accountability, inclusion, innovation, and employee well-being
  • Partner with leaders to strengthen employee engagement and organizational trust
  • Influence culture transformation initiatives aligned to business strategy and enterprise values
  • Serve as a senior escalation point for complex workforce and organizational matters
  • Foster leadership accountability for employee experience, inclusion, and team effectiveness
• Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate

• 12+ years of experience in People business Partner role

Preferred Qualification:

• Post graduate in Human Resources

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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