Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum Insight, part of UnitedHealth Group, works to improve the flow of health data and information across the healthcare system. Optum Life Sciences is seeking an early-career Strategy Analyst to support strategic research, market assessments, business cases, presentations, initiative tracking, and cross-functional execution across data, AI-enabled solutions, platforms, partnerships, and commercialization.
Responsibilities
- Conduct market, industry, competitive, client, and business research to support strategic priorities
- Gather, organize, analyze, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative information into clear findings and actionable insights
- Support market assessments, competitive analyses, business cases, opportunity evaluations, and value-proposition development
- Prepare presentation decks, executive summaries, meeting materials, status updates, and other strategy work products
- Assist with evaluation of opportunities involving life sciences data assets, analytics, AI-enabled solutions, platforms, partnerships, and commercialization
- Support initiative tracking by maintaining work plans, milestones, action items, dependencies, and status updates
- Coordinate inputs and follow-up across strategy, product, technology, data, commercial, finance, operations, and other stakeholders
- Contribute to multiple concurrent projects and adjust to changing team priorities
- Support reporting, data visualization, and dashboard activities as needed
- Use enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, strengthen research and analysis, improve work products, and support continuous improvement
- Apply AI responsibly in accordance with applicable data privacy, security, confidentiality, and approved-tool requirements
Skills
- 2+ years of experience gained through employment, internships, consulting engagements, fellowships, substantial academic projects, or related work involving strategy, market research, business analysis, consulting, product management, healthcare, life sciences, analytics, or a related discipline
- Experience conducting research, market assessments, competitive analysis, business evaluations, business-case development, or related analytical work
- Experience gathering, organizing, analyzing, and synthesizing information into presentations, reports, summaries, recommendations, or other business materials
- Experience supporting multiple projects, priorities, or deliverables simultaneously while meeting established deadlines
- Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders, teams, or business partners to complete deliverables or support project objectives
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint
- Written and verbal communication skills demonstrated through presentations, reports, project updates, summaries, or business recommendations
- Experience in life sciences, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare provider, health system, healthcare technology, healthcare data, analytics, or consulting environments
- Experience preparing executive-level presentations, recommendations, or decision-support materials
- Experience supporting strategic planning, growth initiatives, portfolio analysis, product strategy, commercialization, or business development activities
- Experience using enterprise-approved AI tools to support research, analysis, synthesis, presentation development, or productivity
- Internship, fellowship, consulting, or project-based experience supporting strategy, market research, business analysis, healthcare, life sciences, analytics, or related initiatives
- Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, Domo, SQL, or comparable analytics and visualization tools
- Exposure to healthcare data, real-world data, life sciences analytics, commercialization, digital health, or AI-enabled business solutions
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements
- Incentive and recognition programs, subject to eligibility requirements
- Equity stock purchase, subject to eligibility requirements
- 401k contribution, subject to eligibility requirements
- The flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S.; hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area are required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week
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