2022-2023 Optum Leadership Experience Grad Internship Program - Remote

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)

You have real-world experience and are close to achieving an advanced degree. Congrats! Now, if you want to jump-start your career in a values-based, culturally driven community with a global footprint, look no further.

Join UnitedHealth Group and you'll get an opportunity to do something extraordinary: make a real difference. We have modest goals: Help 75 million people live healthier lives. Change the landscape of health care forever. Leave the world a better place than we found it. Such aspirations attract a certain type of person. Crazy talented. Brilliant. Compassionate. Driven. You'll find these people everywhere you turn here.

Here's the idea. We built focused businesses, inside UnitedHealth Group, organized around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. Through our two business platforms, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, we work to improve the health care system and advance the health and well-being of individuals and communities so that they can enjoy better, fuller lives. That includes the entire spectrum of health care participants: individual consumers and employers, commercial payers and intermediaries, physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and more.

For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges. It's a culture of optimism that's not like any place you've ever worked. Incredible ideas in one incredible company.

So, are you ready?

The Optum Leadership Experience (OLE) provides select participants pursing advanced degrees with superior, cohort-based exposure, experiences, and development opportunities through best-in-class intern and full-time programs, specifically designed to develop the next generation of corporate, product, and care delivery leaders, requiring highly motivated, passionate individuals with bright ideas and the will to lead.

The OLE Internship is ten-weeks long, and delivered in-person, at Optum HQ in Eden Prairie, MN, and / or remotely, with the option to travel. Projects will vary by program and are scoped and assigned closer to Internship start. All programs offer full-time placement opportunities post-graduation, based on performance.

Primary Responsibilities:

During your OLE internship experience, you will:

• Lead high-priority work that supports your respective program track
• Gain exposure to and knowledge of the healthcare industry (including care delivery), Optum businesses, functions, strategies, and senior leaders
• Develop relationships and networks
• Receive hands-on training and support
• Leverage business acumen and work experience to drive transformation
• Learn from and present to executives
• Contribute to fun and engaging cohorts
• Lay the groundwork for a meaningful and impactful career at Optum

Examples of Intern projects:

• Build a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for UHG's Type-2 diabetes program for direct-to-consumer, risk-bearing entity (ACO), multi-payer, Medicare, and / or Medicaid channels
• Prepare a business case for a new, Optum Rx innovation e.g. Augmented/Virtual Reality/Metaverse, Digitized Transactions, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Internet of Medical Things, Multi-Channel Digital Engagement, Precision Medicine, Behavioral Health, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence
• Complete a market sizing analysis, including MVP definition and product / capability requirements for a new product in service of Optum's Health organizations and consumers
• Lead Care Delivery Organizations (CDOs) in acquiring and deploying Admission, Discharge, Transfer (ADT) notifications from care facilities to better predict and manage hospital admissions
• Refine and implement the digital services plan for one of Optum's CDOs via the identification and strategic development of digital health initiatives and capabilities

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
• Currently pursuing an MBA or other relevant graduate degree with a target graduation date no later than July 2024
• 5+ years of professional work experience
• 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)
• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Outstanding academic achievement
• Consulting and/or healthcare experience and/or involvement with consulting/healthcare clubs
• Practiced project management and navigating competing priorities
• Adaptable and comfortable in ambiguity and high-impact situations
• High emotional intelligence and capacity to GSD (get stuff done)
• Champion of change and customer orientation
• Learning/growth oriented
• Aligned to UHG's values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation and Performance
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and communication skills at all levels
• Demonstrated ability to articulate and solve complex problems through strategic, analytical and creating thinking

Grad-level opportunities also exist at UnitedHealth Care (UHC), in Strategy, Product, Consumer Experience, and Finance; and at UnitedHealth Group (UHG), in Corporate Strategy, Corporate Services, and Research & Development. The application and interview processes for these roles is also separate.

In addition, Optum California (CA), composed of HealthCare Partners, Apple Care HealthCare, Monarch HealthCare, and NAMM, offers a geography-specific program in Southern California. This is separate from opportunities through the Optum Leadership Experience (OLE). Should you apply to any number, please include a cover letter with your program preferences.

Already Fortune 5, we are totally focused on innovation and change. We work a little harder. We aim a little higher. We expect more from ourselves and each other. And at the end of the day, we're doing a lot of good.

Through our family of businesses and a lot of inspired individuals, we're building a high-performance health care system that works better for more people in more ways than ever. Now we're looking to reinforce our team with people who are decisive, brilliant - and built for speed.

Come to UnitedHealth Group, and share your ideas and your passion for doing more. We have roles that will fit your skills and knowledge. We have diverse opportunities that will fit your dreams.

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment

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.