Administrative Coordinator - National Remote

Optum; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking an Administrative Coordinator to support business operations. This remote role involves managing schedules, communication, and project tracking while ensuring timely delivery of tasks. Ideal candidates will have strong organizational skills and experience in administrative support.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Incentive and recognition programs

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience leading multiple concurrent projects.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate schedule to meet customers' expectations.
• Create and maintain multiple Excel spreadsheets including project tracking.
• Maintain collaborative working relationships with team members.

Skills

Communication

Organizational Skills

Time Management

Education

High School diploma / GED

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Administrative Coordinator - National Remote

Administrative Coordinator - National Remote

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.

The Business Operations Specialist function includes more traditional administrative/clerical support roles including: answering the telephone, typing/word processing of documents, maintaining calendars and setting up meetings, making travel arrangements, setting up files, tracking expenses, creating schedules for pharmacy teams.

Accuracy, clear communication, and efficient workflow are also keys to providing our business partners and teams with flawless execution. This role requires a willingness to be a team player and the flexibility to take on new challenges, duties and tasks with short notice.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities

• Applies knowledge/skills to activities that often vary from day to day
• Demonstrates a moderate level of knowledge and skills in own function
• Requires little assistance with standard and non-standard requests from supervisor, partners, and team
• Solves routine problems on own and works with supervisor to solve more complex problems
• Coordinate schedule to meet customers' expectations and deadlines. Communicate the status of jobs, any unique circumstances relating to jobs, etc. to other staff as needed
• Ensure all jobs tasks are delivered on-time. Remain in contact with leadership when delays arise or schedule is jeopardized
• Monitor jobs for errors and/or “common sense” mistakes to eliminate rework
• Create and maintain multiple Excel spreadsheets including project tracking
• Participate in training activities, or other special assignments as requested
• Comply with all policy, procedure, regulation and other communicated requirements as may be in effect for the workgroup or worksite
• Maintain and foster collaborative working relationships with team members, internal clients, and external partners
• Support the overall business goals by performing additional duties as assigned or requested
• Prioritizes and organizes own work to meet agreed upon deadlines
• Works with others as part of a team
  
  

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

• High School diploma / GED
• 1+ years of experience leading multiple concurrent projects while effectively prioritizing multiple tasks, priorities, projects, and deadline to resolve customer issues and meet delivery timeline
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven self - starter with excellent communication, organizational, process planning, decision making and implementation skills
• High level of attention to detail
• Demonstrated effective negotiation, communication, project, and time management skills
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy
  
  

The hourly range for this role is $16.88 to $33.22 per hour based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers 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 UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Administrative

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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