Senior Project Manager - Eden Prairie, MN

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

The Senior Project Manager responsible for managing strategic projects and other smaller work efforts ensuring scope is delivered according to deadlines, budget, and quality standards within the Optum Care Delivery segment. The Senior Business Project Manager will have the opportunity to lead many diverse projects including, but not limited to: New product partnerships between UHC/Optum Care, EMR/Practice Management, care management solutions, and data/analytics

This position uses expertise and leadership skills to direct project team(s) and ensure project goals, requirements, other deliverables, and delivery deadlines are met. The Project Manager develops project plans, builds project schedules, manages project meetings, communicates progress and status, enforces quality, management, and identifies, responds, and manages risks, issues, changes and manages all project activities and ensures all project phases are documented appropriately. The role partners with project executive sponsors to drive execution consistent with business objectives.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead or help develop program or project scope statements, in consultation with applicable Creates and executes project plans and revises appropriately to meet changing requirements and needs. Plans and schedules project timelines and milestones using the appropriate tools. Manages day-to-day operational and tactical activities of a project. Develops and delivers progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations. Diagnoses task/procedural change issues and helps to resolve the problem
• Ensures that project documents are current and complete, as well as appropriately managed and stored. Assures that project legal documents are completed and signed. Conducts project post-mortems and creates lessons learned reports to identify project elements that were both successful and unsuccessful
• Determines the content of status reports and frequency of delivery; analyzes results of the progress reports troubleshoot problem areas. Defines project success criteria, communicating that throughout the Project team. Reviews deliverables prepared by the Project team
• Understands how to communicate difficult and sensitive information tactfully. Effectively communicates relevant project information to superiors. Proactively manages changes in project scope, identifies any potential crisis or issues and devises contingency plans to mitigate concerns
• Manage program or project cadence and reporting, working with executive sponsors and key stakeholders to drive execution towards business objectives, fulfilling scope, quality, budget
• Lead and implement high visibility initiatives across the enterprise
• Provide analysis and support on various topics such as the competitive environment, health care industry, government relations and new market opportunities
• Help create new solutions to address difficult and long-standing challenges in improving health care outcomes, consumer experiences, and reducing cost of care
• Create a comprehensive communication plan to be used to engage frontline staff
• Support senior leaders in engaging with and influencing other stakeholders
• Timeline requirements

This role will challenge your ability to work on complex projects where deadlines and scope shift frequently. You'll need flexibility, agility and the ability to adapt to change while maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders in a highly cross-matrixed environment.

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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of project management experience
• Willing to work out of our Minnetonka, MN corporate office
• Proficiency with MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Domestic (U.S.) travel as needed, up to 25%. Overall travel safety and personal health concerns will be factored into travel decisions and requirements
• You will be asked to perform this role in an office setting or other company location
• Employees are required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener prior to entering the work site each day, in order to keep our work sites safe. Employees must comply with any state and local masking orders. In addition, when in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are expected to wear a mask in areas where physical distancing cannot be attained

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP Certification
• Knowledge of Smartsheet tool
• Knowledge of Optum Care Delivery
• Knowledge of health care economics
• Knowledge of medical group operations
• Knowledge of health plan operations
• Acquisition integration experience
• Business Analyst experience

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

OptumCare is committed to creating an environment where physicians focus on what they do best: care for their patients. To do so, OptumCare provides administrative and business support services to both owned and affiliated medical practices which are part of OptumCare. Each medical practice part and their physician employees have complete authority with regards to all medical decision-making and patient care. OptumCare's support services do not interfere with or control the practice of medicine by the medical practices or any of their physicians.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

OptumCare is a drugfree workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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