Advisory Services Analyst, Consultant Development

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

8d•$60,200 - $107,400•Hybrid

About The Position

Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Begin your career at UnitedHealth Group and you’ll get an Early Careers consulting opportunity to do something extraordinary with your first job out of school. Make a real difference by helping millions of people live healthier lives and making health care work better for everyone. 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. Curious. Driven. To these select few, we offer a global reach, resources, and a can-do culture. You’ll find a world of career options fueled by your performance and limited only by your imagination. Start 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. For you, that means working on high performing teams solving sophisticated challenges. It’s a culture of optimism that’s unlike any place you’ve ever worked. Many incredible ideas in one incredible company. Optum Insight, a division of Optum, is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the U.S. health care system. Optum Insight is one of the largest and fastest growing health information companies. We specialize in improving the performance of the health system by providing analytics, technology, and consulting services that enable better decisions and results. We integrate workflow solutions that deliver data in real-time and create actionable insights - processing health information that relates directly to and impacts one in four patients in the U.S., one in every three Medicaid dollars and one in every five emergency room visits. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Inclusion, Relationships, Innovation & Performance. What can YOU do with the right information? At Optum Insight, your possibilities and your impact are limitless. No matter what your role is at Optum Insight, you'll be empowered to ask more questions, develop better solutions, and help make the health care system greater than ever. It's always fresh. It's always exciting. And it's never been more important. The Consultant Development Program (CDP) is an Early Careers program for recent college graduates who are interested in developing and deploying problem-solving and presentation skills with health care clients. The Consultant Development Program sits within Optum Advisory and allows for early career professionals to experience a diversity of health care clients through a variety of engagements. CDP members work on different client teams while simultaneously receiving mentorship and formal training in key consulting competencies. Program completion includes alignment into an Optum Advisory practice and typically takes 1.5-2.5 years to complete. The full-time position located in Eden Prairie, MN or Nashville, TN will be available starting in Summer 2026 UnitedHealth Group is not able to offer visa sponsorship now or in the future for position Relocation is not offered for the Consultant Development Program

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree earned within the past 24 months from an accredited college/university; coursework to obtain degree must be completed prior to start of employment and verified within 6-8 weeks following the date at your school
Business acumen and experience in data analysis, product management, project management, business analysis, documenting requirements and use cases, and incorporating voice of customer insights
Ability to work in office on a hybrid schedule (3 days in office) in one of our 2 locations (Eden Prairie, MN or Nashville, TN) for the duration of the program
Ability to Travel up to 80%25 for the Consultant Development Program, dependent on project needs and location
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) F-1 visa holders with Optional Practical Training (OPT) who will require H-1B status, TNs, or current H-1B visa holders will not be considered. H1-B and green card sponsorship is not available for this position

Nice To Haves

3.0 GPA
Healthcare Experience
Experience with research and writing, Power BI, UX/UI concepts, data engineering, and familiarity with AI tools and emerging AI applications is preferred
Proven intellectual Curiosity

Responsibilities

Working directly with our internal and external clients to help determine needs and solve complex business problems by performing the following types of activities:
Enable strategic business transformation through the application of technology, process improvement and innovation to our client’s most complex problems
Conduct research & stakeholder interviews that may include collecting, analyzing, trending and presenting data and recommendations to clients
Navigate client facing interactions, presentations and relationship building in scenarios of project delivery, social situations, change management and at times ambiguity
Promote project success with requirements analysis, presentation creation and project management duties, including meeting management, project planning and project budget support
Document customer/client requirements through clear, concise and effective written and oral communication
Perform analysis for business process re-engineering opportunities and define, develop and document before and after process flows
Participate in assessment, project sizing, market analysis and scope evaluation of potential project deliverables
Grow in specific areas of interest and develop subject matter expertise
Develop and support in the delivery of client facing presentations
Provide support and information to clients making strategic decisions and implement enhancements to their organizations’ strategy, productivity, performance, and long-term profitability
Building a go-to-market strategy and business case to bring a new product or service to market by providing an opportunity analysis derived through complex data navigation
Designing an organizational management structure to help improve health care delivery operations
Conducting a technology assessment and developing an implementation plan in a payer or provider organization
Creating and executing an acquisition strategy of a medical group or provider organization; guiding the organization through the acquisition process
Conducting Change Management assessments and stakeholder engagements to ensure adoption of recommendations within a multi-faceted project