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UnitedHealth Group is seeking a skilled project coordination professional to support portfolio and workforce management, ensuring accurate capacity planning and timely staffing changes. You will review requisitions, resolve discrepancies, and provide regular leadership updates.
The role also involves supporting technology program managers, tracking milestones, and consolidating delivery status to inform stakeholders. Strong budgeting and MS Office skills are essential.
Requisition number: 2379840
Job category: Technology
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Portfolio & Workforce Management Support
Maintain the accuracy of capacity planning tools and follow up on exceptions related to new requisition allocations and staffing changes, including attrition, backfills, and new resources
Review requisition submissions for accuracy, identify and resolve discrepancies with submitters, and perform standard validation checks based on established criteria
Respond to requisition creation inquiries and provide guidance as needed
Prepare and provide regular status updates and exception reports to leadership
Perform data entry, tracking, and analysis to support portfolio and workforce management activities
Support capacity and demand forecasting activities and planning cycles
Technology Program & Project Management Support
Support Technology Program and Project Managers with day-to-day program and project management activities
Track key milestones and collaborate with project teams to execute against detailed project plans, dependencies, and predecessors
Capture and consolidate delivery status to support stakeholder communications, including progress, obstacles, dependencies, and risks
Partner with program leads to identify gaps, issues, and areas requiring follow-up
Support PPM Optics project setup and maintain allocation changes
Project Delivery
Manage lightweight projects by developing project plans, defining key milestones, coordinating activities, and driving delivery to completion
Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements
2+ years of experience in project coordination or project management
Financial acumen with hands-on experience in budgeting and budget tracking
Familiarity with Microsoft tools
Proven solid written and verbal communication skills
Project management training and/or certifications
Familiarity with Copilot or other AI-related tools
Understanding of demand and capacity forecasting
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.