Project Management Intern- Telecommute

Internships at Optum. If you want an intern experience that will dramatically shape your career, consider a company that’s dramatically shaping our entire health care system. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of companies, is a leading health services and innovation company dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 94,000 people collaborating worldwide, Optum combines people, technology, data and action to improve the delivery, quality and efficiency of health care. Our internship opportunities provide a view of a rapidly evolving, incredibly challenging marketplace of ideas, products and services. Here, you’ll work with some of the smartest people in the business on assignments that matter. Join us and you may end up staying for a career in which you can do your life’s best work.(sm)

UnitedHealth Group and our family of businesses, we’ve got what it takes to lead the charge and bring about the future of health care. As a Project Management Intern, you’ll be a partner in supporting our legal, compliance and regulatory affairs organization and help to solve discrete problems. It’s an opportunity to develop critical thinking, implementing new technology, etc. and increase the overall department’s efficiency. Get ready to meet challenges head on by joining us today.

Housing and relocation assistance is not available for this position

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the organization’s vision, strategy, priorities, and roadmap
• Partner with stakeholders to enable successful prioritization, development, delivery, and adoption of the program goals
• Work cross-functionally; provide explanations and interpretations within area of the program
• Delivers business case that clearly articulates short and long-term capability opportunity for the business; support messaging and tracking overall success
• Translate process improvement opportunities into effectively defined project plans
• Collects, analyze and interpret information to evaluate landscape against business strategies; uses to inform plans of current and future program maturity
• Review, create and/or maintain workflows to drive effectiveness
• Effectively communicate with leadership on roadblocks and potential project opportunities

Core Behaviors

• Assimilate quickly to new environments and pressures, exhibits flexibility and applies a continuous learning mindset in all aspects of work
• Consider feedback on user experience and perspective in all aspects of decisions and actions to drive business adoption
• Thought leader; creates and shares a compelling vision for program direction; takes accountability for decisions, actions and results for self and others; Leads and manages change; strategic thinker

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

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university during the duration of the internship. Internships are not intended for graduating seniors.
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment-based work authorization (F-1 students with practical training and candidates requiring H-1Bs, TNs, etc. will not be considered)

Preferred Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Project Management, Communication, Analytics, or related field
• Experience working with large data sets
• Intermediate level of proficiency with MS Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Understand and apply appropriate program management methodologies (e.g., Agile methodology, Waterfall, etc.), principles, practices and values

Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer 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.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.