Advisory Services Analyst (Data & Analytics focus), Consultant Development Program - Multiple Locations

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Advisory Board, a division of Optum Insight, 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. For over 40 years, we’ve helped executives and future leaders in the health care industry work smarter and faster by providing provocative insights, actionable strategies, and practical tools to support execution. Our core products include research membership, events, expert support, custom research, and sponsorship. Learn more about Advisory Board. 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 participants will work with Advisory Board teams across a variety of functions including research and client services to support top business priorities, while simultaneously receiving mentorship and formal training in key consulting competencies. Program completion includes alignment into a full-time Advisory Board role and typically takes 1.5-2.5 years to complete. The full-time position located in Eden Prairie, MN, Nashville, TN or Washington, DC 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 Basic Data Analysis Experience
Experience working in Excel (E.g. comfortable using pivot tables and formulas) and SQL
Strong attention to detail and communication skills
Experience writing and presenting data findings
Ability to work in office on a hybrid schedule (2 days home/3 days in office) in one of our 3 locations (Eden Prairie, MN, Nashville, TN or Washington, DC) for the duration of the program
Ability to Travel up to 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
Proven intellectual Curiosity
Python or PySpark Experience
AWS Glue, Quicksight, and/or Redshift Experience

Responsibilities

Deliver on two core data services: delivering custom data extracts to Advisory Board members and assisting members of Advisory Board’s upcoming all-payer claims product.
Work with Advisory Board’s data and engineering teams to build custom data tables, extract data, and update member data sites.
Partner with Advisory Board researchers and account managers to serve members and draft research-informed communications.
Draft research publications based on analytical research, present findings to members, and/or walk through data tools with internal and external audiences.
Build and maintain member sites for Advisory Board’s all-payer claims data.
Communicate with members about data customization.
Scope custom data requests in collaboration with account managers.
Understand and analyze claims and benchmark data to derive member-specific insights.
Build custom data tables in AWS Glue and Redshift.
Extract and clean data for delivery to members.
Collaborate with peers on quality checks.
Present data findings to members over email and over video call.
Communicate with members to guide data submission and manage customization and updates.
Clean and upload member-submitted data.
Update member data monthly in all-payer claims product.