Advisory Services Analyst - Letterkenny, Ireland

Here at Optum, part of United Health Group we'll put you in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. We need your organisational talents and business discipline to help fuel ours. It's the opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

As an Optum Advisory Analyst (enrolled to the Consultant Development Programme), you'll have the opportunity to work on and provide people, process and technology consulting advisory services to some of the leading health care organisations. Your work can result in stronger financial returns and a healthier health care system for both our clients and consumers.

Consultant Development Programme (CDP)

Professional development is at the core of this innovative programme. We want to ensure that participants cultivate the skills necessary to succeed in evolving project roles in the health care industry.

Join us and you’ll find a variety of opportunities to grow professionally including:

• Training – Our training programme focuses on the health care industry and uses consulting best practices to provide ongoing learning opportunities while refining key skills. Courses cover a variety of topics including project management, business analysis, health care trends and current issues, technology and career specific certifications.
• Executive Engagement – We’ll introduce you to influential leaders in the health care industry with quarterly presentations that provide an open forum for active collaboration and relationship building
• Mentoring and Networking – Participants get immediate access to professional advice and career guidance from senior – level consultants. Informal networking provides news to build professional relationships and identify roles models to support careers development

Primary Responsibilities:

• Working directly with our clients to help determine needs and solve complex business problems
• Identify and document business process re-engineering opportunities including current and future state process flows
• Conduct research studies that may include collecting, analysing, trending and presenting data and recommendations to management
• Define, develop and document business requirements to ensure clients' needs are captured and delivered (e.g. use case-based Business Requirements Documents with evidence demonstrating competence writing unique, implementable, testable business requirements, ideally supporting multiple development lifecycles such as agile and waterfall)
• Assist with requirements analysis and verification document customer/client requirements through clear, unambiguous, concise and effective written and oral communication
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to define deliverables and develop solutions that meet or exceed client requirements
• Perform analysis for business process re-engineering opportunities and define, develop and document before and after process flows

You will be rewarded and recognised 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Finance, Business, Management, IT or related field
• Experience working in any of the following environments: management consulting/professional consulting, data analysis, project management, general consulting and/or business process improvement
• Flexibility to travel when required
• Interest in health care and improving health systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Client-facing experience
• Business Intelligence experience with Data Analytics and Data Visualisation tools using SQL, Tableau, Power BI or related platforms.
• Experience with Agile methodology (Product Owner, Scrum Master), database management systems, and other business-related technologies
• Project Management Certification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMO)
• Experience and knowledge of the US health care sector

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organisation around one giant objective: make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

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.