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Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

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**

Primary Responsibilities:

Custom data analysts 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.

Custom data analysts work with Advisory Board's data and engineering teams to build custom data tables, extract data, and update member data sites. They also partner with Advisory Board researchers and account managers to serve members and draft research-informed communications. Over time, they may also draft research publications based on analytical research, present findings to members, and/or walk through data tools with internal and external audiences.

After product launch in the summer, custom data analysts will also be responsible for building and maintaining member sites for Advisory Board's all-payer claims data, as well as communicating with members about data customization. Roles and responsibilities may include:

• 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

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:

• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3.0 GPA
• Healthcare Experience
• Proven intellectual Curiosity
• Python or PySpark Experience
• AWS Glue, Quicksight, and/or Redshift Experience

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $60,200 to $107,400 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

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