Business Analyst Intern

Internships at Optum. If you want an intern experience that will dramatically shape your career, consider a company that’s dramatically shaping our entire health care system. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of companies, is a leading health services and innovation company dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 94,000 people collaborating worldwide, Optum combines people, technology, data and action to improve the delivery, quality and efficiency of health care. Our internship opportunities provide a view of a rapidly evolving, incredibly challenging marketplace of ideas, products and services. Here, you’ll work with some of the smartest people in the business on assignments that matter. Join us and you may end up staying for a career in which you can do your life’s best work.(sm) 

**Housing assistance is not available for this position.**

**This Full-Time internship position will be available Summer 2023**

**UnitedHealth Group is not able to offer visa sponsorship now or in the future for this position**

We are recruiting for a variety of different teams within the business analyst function track.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Respond to standard requests
• Requires assistance in responding to non-standard requests
• Solves routine problems by following established procedures
• Use pertinent data and facts to identify and solve a range of problems
• Investigate non-standard requests and problems, with some assistance from others
• Prioritize and organize own work to meet deadlines
• Provide explanation and information to others on process improvement initiatives
• Collect relevant information by pulling and analyzing data from multiple systems
• Use relevant data to make fact based decisions
• Assisting with business development
• Contributing to reports and business proposals
• Project management
• Assisting team leads with various research projects pertaining to multiple content areas or business needs
• Other projects as assigned

You’ll be rewarded and recognized 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university during the duration of the internship.  Internships are not intended for graduating seniors.
• 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: 

• Minimum 3.00 cumulative GPA
• Intermediate level experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business or another related field

Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges. 

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.    

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.      

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.