UnitedHealth Group is among the most ambitious Fortune 25 companies you'll ever meet. Through our family of businesses, we're working to make the health care system perform better for more people, in more ways than ever.
Simply put, we think the entire system can be greater than it's ever been. And that drives us to work harder, aim higher, and expect more from one another.
Here, you'll be empowered to make an immediate impact for millions of others. And you'll achieve more than you ever expected. How does that fit with your plans?
Business Management Consultant - Senior Project Manager - Healthcare Consultant (IL, CT, MN, NY)-316187
UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.
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Ingenix Consulting
Healthcare Operations, Processes and Technology - Senior Consultant
Ingenix is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US healthcare system.
If you get excited about the life transforming potential of bringing healthcare information to the right place, at the right time, to support crucial decisions, welcome to Ingenix.
Ingenix is one of the largest and fastest growing health information companies and the only organization in our industry with the information, technology and consulting expertise to solve the most significant challenges in health and human services. Ingenix unites the brightest minds to transform organizations and improve healthcare through information and technology. We serve a diverse customer base within the healthcare community, including healthcare payers, providers, employers, consumers, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies.
Ingenix Consulting is the health and human services consulting organization within Ingenix. We offer our clients solutions that range from financial advisory services to operations, process, technology, and information management innovation and optimization. Ingenix Consulting is rapidly expanding and we are seeking top healthcare consulting professionals to join the organization.
Position Description
As a Senior Consultant within our organization you will have the opportunity to perform the following types of activities:
- Collaborate with business and technology departments to define deliverables and develop solutions that are reusable across the organization
- Lead the overall delivery of projects including the direct management of project team members
- Create written and oral communication materials that effectively summarize findings, support fact-based recommendations and provides appropriate detail to substantiate conclusions
- Maintain work papers, project deliverables and other artifacts that can be recreated and leveraged as intellectual capital
- Perform project management duties including the creation of status reports, work plans and presentations to client leadership
- Identify and document business process re-engineering opportunities including current and future state process flows
- Define, develop and document business requirements to ensure clients needs are captured and delivered
- Direct quality assurance and user acceptance testing by writing test plans and managing the execution of testing
- Conduct research studies that may include collecting, analyzing, trending and presenting data and recommendations to management
- Develop financial models and tools, including cost-benefit analysis, resource utilization models and performance reports
- Assess and recommend vendor products to client leadership
- Support the creation of sales pursuit materials and other business development activities
. Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a business or computer-related field
- At least 5+ years experience in any of the following areas:
- Business Process Design and Redesign, Organizational Redesign, Six-Sigma/Quality Optimization, Business Requirements Elicitation, Process Mapping, Financial Analysis, or Change Management.
- 5+ years project management experience
- 3+ years Medicare and / or Medicaid healthcare experience including:
- Service Operations: Case Installation, Claim Management, Member Services, Eligibility and Enrollment, and Billing
- Products and Programs: Disease Management, Care Management, Wellness programs, Behavioral, and HEDIS
- Other Key Desirable Skills Competencies:
- Solid understanding of the Systems Development Life-Cycle (SDLC)
- Strong communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Consulting experience on large business process or systems integration projects
- Ability to travel up to 80%
- Experience working in a Big 5 or large consulting organization is preferred
- Knowledge of software applications, database management systems, and other business related technologies preferred
- Candidates located near Minneapolis, MN, Chicago, IL, Manhattan, NY, or Hartford, CT are preferred
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. |
