UnitedHealth Group - Associate Director - Analytics

Discipline : Business Operations

Industry : Business Analysis

Description :

- Advanced Analytics Project leader will lead the development of analytics solutions to generate actionable insights to create business value, and drive coordination of Advocate for Me initiatives to deliver world class analytic solutions.

Essential Responsibilities :

- Advanced Analytics Project leader will support cross-disciplinary teams on solving business problems using analytics, typically involving large data sets.

- These cross-disciplinary teams typically include data analysts, subject matter experts / functional leaders from services that come together to work on applying data and analytics to drive operational excellence in the services business.

Potential application areas include :

- Analyzing data usage and drive the conclusion about the value creation through automation,

- Provide relevant business context to enable exploration of data lake content.

Advance Analytics Project leader, need to :

- Establish and expose data relationships between customers, assets and contracts,

- Perform exploratory, and targeted data analysis,

- Work in application and deployment of data mining methods,

- Identify, develop and oversee application of technical approaches and methodologies (e.g. neural nets, CART, Bayesian methods, etc.) to improve asset, operations and business outcomes,

- Identify data needs, drive methods and best practices for data prep, data quality and governance

- Effectively communicate technical analyses and results to business management

- Lead operationalization analytic solutions through integration into business processes, and ensure adoption,

No. of Openings : 2

Qualification :

Required Skill set :

- Masters in Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Computer Science, Information Sciences, any relevant Engineering discipline.

- Strong on Change Management skills

- Strong Influencing and Communication skills

- Create and maintain project plans, manage service delivery, ensure all the project deliverables are completed as per timelines. Experience of working on SLA driven environment

- Manage project schedules, manage workload and liaise with customer on need basis

- Publish project status, performance and other reports to customer and internally on a periodic basis

- Build a culture of identifying automation/efficiency improvement ideas in the project

Desired Characteristics :

- Technical experience in state of the art data tools and technologies. Must have at least 8-10 years of hands-on experience on SAS/other BI tools

- Entrepreneurial inclination to discover novel opportunities for applying analytical techniques to business/scientific problems across the company.

- Ability to operate across technical and functional teams effectively

- Curious and self-motivated learner, with a fast-learning curve to acquire specialized domain expertise

- Competency in major analytic packages (R, SAS, Matlab, Python etc.), working in integrated Big Data environments (Hadoop / Map-Reduce, Mahout, Java etc.), and with databases (SQL etc.)

- Demonstrated ability to work in a highly matrixes environment

- Strong problem solving and logical skills communicate deep analytical results in forms that resonate with scientific and/or business collaborators, highlighting actionable insights

- Excellent track record in delivering complex and cross functional projects/solutions

- Excellent communication skills, and ability to communicate actionable insights with business leadership

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