Senior Strategic Project Manager - All Sites

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.

On the one hand, no industry is moving faster than health care. On the other, no organization is better positioned to lead health care forward than Optum and UnitedHealth Group. That's what makes this opportunity so applause worthy. We have hundreds of business verticals across our matrixed organizations that are bringing thousands of new ideas, services and products to the marketplace every year. Our goal is simple. Use data and technology to help drive change and make the health care system work better for everyone. When you join us as a Project Manager, you'll be engaged in a complex business model that is highly adaptable to build solutions that meet their customer needs in a competitive and effective way.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Provide direction and drive to enterprise work streams (real estate, training, telecom technology, human capital, etc.) on all aspects of the business
• Ability to drive and program manage Internal Readiness across functions for setting up of new projects
• Ability to work with executive leadership. Understand strategic direction and provide solution
• Be responsible for programs for the line of service / business for the site
• Handle escalations for external and internal stakeholders
• Demonstrate solid leadership and judgment
• Negotiate key process change in introduce innovations for cost effective programs
• Change Management - Gain acceptance for ideas, plans, actions by team - by keeping everyone involved in decision making and implement, flawlessly, as a team
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement
• Demonstrated ability to engage team members in a cross-functional, virtual environment
• Should be open to provide full US overlap hours. Till 4 PM EST
• 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 regard 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 :

Knowledge of project financials / CBA

Personal Competencies :

Preferred Qualifications :

Exposure to Agile methodology

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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