While you’re hitting the books, you can be helping change the world. You have business experience. You’re pursuing a MBA. You’re looking for an internship that will lead to a professional development and leadership rotation program when you graduate. You want to start making a difference right now. Well, hello and hop aboard. Put yourself among one of the best teams anywhere and start improving your career impact everywhere.

Begin your career at 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. You’ll also find a world of career options fueled by your performance and limited only by imagination. Start here. And start doing your life’s best work.(sm)

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 performance teams against sophisticated challenges. It’s a culture of optimism that’s not like any place you’ve ever worked. Many incredible ideas in one incredible company.

The Optum Corporate Strategy team helps drive major strategic initiatives in our company. As trusted advisors to our senior leadership, we work very closely with them, including the Office of the CEO and the Executive Operating Committee. We are a small, highly effective and talented team of individuals from top tier-MBA programs. The majority of the team has strategic background in consulting or corporate strategy. As a member of the team you will have exposure to the think tank that spear head the future of health care. As a part of this team and Optum your work will help shape and impact the future of health care.

The Associate Director Intern, Corporate Strategy will have the opportunity to learn about the different business functions, strategy and culture of Optum, and UnitedHealth Group. The intern program will provide the incoming candidate the ability to evaluate Optum as a full-time job opportunity and their fit with the organization and the team.

You will be a key member of the Optum corporate strategy team with the responsibility of supporting the business, market research and analytical needs of the team. As the Associate Director Intern, you will work closely with the V.P. and Directors and support them on key business initiatives for Optum, ultimately with the goal of you becoming a senior leader within our organization.

You should be able to gather business information and synthesize it logically and analytically. The desired candidate should have the ability to play various roles developing insights into markets, customers, and strategic direction. You should also be able to create presentations based on a story board that is provided by the senior members, or on your own. As part of this program, you will meet and interact with the senior most leadership across Optum and have the opportunity to collaborate with them.

Some additional program features and example projects:

• Overall business planning and growth planning for Optum
• Business Plan and development for Optum Labs, a collaborative research and development facility with a singular goal: improving patient care. Mayo Clinic is Optum’s first industry partner
• Strategic thinking and rationale behind Capability Gap Assessment and M&A decisions for our businesses
• 3-year strategy and business planning for the individual business units
• Evaluation of international growth opportunities
• Development of transformational 3rd party partnership opportunity

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze industry trends, customer needs, competitive threats, expansion opportunities and internal performance
• Perform primary and secondary market research to generate strategic intelligence and insights
• Deliver data-driven insights to support actionable strategic direction, corporate prioritization, and communication
• Support the corporate planning process and ad hoc projects for executives, corporate requests, and special events
• Build market and competitive intelligence reports, dashboards, and tracking structures
• Produce and present PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets that communicate/translate results derived into meaningful charts and insights that are easily understood and valued by internal and external audiences
• Create an immediate impact in a fast-paced environment with multiple and changing demands. Multi-task and support multiple project needs

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree
• Currently pursuing an advanced degree – MBA - with a target graduation date no later than June 2018.
• Ability to work as a summer intern at the Optum location in Minnesota, during the summer of 2017
• Proficiency with business and analytical tools (e.g. MS Excel, PowerPoint).
• Ability to quickly create high quality PowerPoint Presentations and Excel Analysis
• Minimum of three years of previous professional work experience
• Minimum 3.00 cumulative GPA
• 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)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Outstanding academic achievement
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to explore a variety of business challenges
• Demonstrated agility in learning
• Excellent relationship management skills; ability to work with all levels in a matrix environment
• Strong communication, impact, and influence skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze business data and strategy
• History of quickly gaining credibility, partnering with business leaders and exhibiting executive presence
• Proven ability to articulate business strategies and formulate concise solutions to complex problems
• Previous management and strategy consulting experience from a top tier firm
• Experience developing market overviews, understanding competitive positioning, analyzing market trends, and understanding customer needs
• Superior conceptual, analytical and financial modeling skills
• High energy, detail oriented and creative individual
• Strong organization skills with ability to prioritize and multi-task
• Strong team and relationship skills
• Currently pursuing a MBA with focus on strategy and business development or marketing
• Experience in the health care industry and/or background in IT/analytics/information services

A Fortune 6 company, we're focused on helping people live healthier lives while making the health system work better for everyone. Here, we seek to empower people with the information, guidance and tools to make personal health choices. We work harder and we aim higher. We expect more from ourselves and each other. And, at the end of the day, we’re doing a lot of good for more than 142 million people worldwide.