Senior Data Analyst, E&I Affordability - Remote

At UnitedHealthcare, we're simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and optimized. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together

As a Senior Data Analyst for E&I Affordability, you will be in a unique position to assist a growing business proactively plan, react to new developments, and implement improvements across multiple departments. Your work will involve looking at operational performance, business efficiencies, and uncovering medical cost drivers. You will participate in scrum teams as a business expert and help QA technology projects. You will have a solid understanding of medical claims and unit cost. You will investigate key business problems in several functional areas and provide leadership with quantitative analyses of healthcare cost and utilization data. You will analyze and uncover drivers of trends impacting cost and operations. You will analyze and interpret data from various sources, identify appropriate measurement methodologies, design reports, and work with technical, operational, and payment teams to drive performance. Your analyses will be used to create viable, real - world solutions in a complex health care landscape.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Conduct analysis designed to identify root causes and produce recommendations
• Communicate analysis including trends and opportunities to clients and the business in writing and verbally to solve complex business problems while negotiating multiple daily priorities 
• Collaborate with leaders of strategic initiatives to drive analytic information into business actions
• Gather and document requirements from the client/business while focused on process improvement, workflow, benchmarking and/or evaluation of business processes
• QA/analysis of large data sets used for reporting and QA/analysis of subsequent deliverables
• Develop comprehensive understanding of programs being measured
• Predict emerging business needs and develop innovative solutions to meet them
• Working with relational databases, database structures and SQL queries on a daily basis

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:

• 3+ years of data analytics experience
• 3+ years of experience using SQL query techniques to access relational databases
• 1+ years of experience using Python, R or other programming languages
• Experience in prioritizing work on multiple complex assignments with ongoing deadlines
• Experience working in an Enterprise Data Warehouse environment or multiple source data warehouse
• Experience communicating ideas clearly and concisely in writing and verbally to individuals and groups
• Willingness to adapt to a continuously changing environment with changing priorities
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, influence, collaboration and listening skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Power BI development and data visualization techniques
• Healthcare provider contracting analysis and/or understanding of common reimbursement methods used for commercial medical insurance payments

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

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

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.