Senior Analyst of Business Development - Lafayette, LA Office

UnitedHealth Group•Lafayette, LA

5d•$76,104 - $114,156•Onsite

About The Position

Explore opportunities with Home Office, a part of LHC Group, a leading post-acute care partner for hospitals, physicians and families nationwide. As members of the Optum family of businesses, we are dedicated to helping people feel their best, including our team members who create meaningful connections with patients, their families, each other and the communities we serve. Find a home for your career here. Join us and embrace a culture of Caring. Connecting. Growing together. As the Senior Growth Strategist, you are responsible for supporting the divisional and home office leadership teams with the achievement of growth objectives. This is accomplished primarily through root cause analysis, review of key performance indicators, action planning, and consultative guidance with leaders across the organization. The Sr. Growth Strategist is focused on developing, crafting and recommending strategies and interventions across lead and lag measures to drive bottom-line results within the division.

Requirements

Experience with marketing, sales, and/or customer service operations and strategies
Excellent computer skills, including high proficiency with Microsoft Excel
Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and persuade through personal credibility, integrity, and professionalism
Highly motivated and display a natural sense of completing tasks timely and accurately
Proven excellent time management and organizational skills
Proven ability to work both collaboratively and autonomously
Proven ability to exhibit a high level of professionalism and be able to complete a variety of project tasks in a timely and efficient manner
Proven excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Demonstrate an outcome orientation - able to diagnose problems/opportunities and craft strategies and solutions to impact results
Proven excellent analytical and technical skills and the ability to quickly identify and evaluate business risks and concerns and apply appropriate techniques to assist in resolving
Proven ability to build and maintain relationships

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree
Experience within healthcare; home health, hospice, and/or post-acute care

Responsibilities

Serves as professional strategist and consultant for growth/business development leaders and teams, with specific focus on the Home Health and Hospice divisions
Works collaboratively with leadership teams to regularly measure the performance of the business, specifically focus on growth metrics
Works collaboratively with leadership teams to conduct root cause analysis and strategize ways to improve identified areas of opportunity
Tracks and communicates impact of strategies and results of collective efforts
Performs real-time analysis on current results, statistics, and metrics as well as other data to identify weaknesses and opportunities for performance improvement
Analysis of Division, Region, Agency, and Account Executive performance trends and reporting to management teams on findings and recommendations
Maintains excellent communication with supervisor, sales leadership, and home office leaders
Actively participates in the budget process with a specific focus on admissions budgets and plans for budget achievement (e.g., account executive staffing model)
Participates in the acquisitions and de novo processes to ensure appropriate strategies, resources, and synergies are in place for new markets