Consultant, systems analyst job description

**The Opportunity**

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you'll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

**Position Summary**

POSITION SUMMARY:

Our Analysts join us from a wide range of backgrounds and make an immediate impact working as part of a team committed to developing creative insights, implementing and designing processes, and driving tangible results. We provide access to the training and coaching you need while you work independently or in group settings to get hands on experience in building effective relationships and creating solutions for our clients.

With a solution-oriented approach, you will collaborate with team members to critically think and problem solve to execute the implementation of effective processes and strategies for clients. As an Analyst, you'll work across a wide range of clients and projects which vary in length and size. In addition to client work, you'll also get a chance to participate in various team culture initiatives and social events.

Responsibilities may include:

• Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and communicate synthesized results to senior internal team members to inform client deliverables

• Collaborating with internal team members during the course of the project, including presenting key takeaways, communicating project updates, and organizing overall project logistics

• Engaging with colleagues across the practice to develop innovative and industry-leading methodologies that better serve our clients

• Attending regular client meetings to identify and analyze key metrics for both internal and client leadership team

**Qualifications**

**QUALIFICATIONS:**

• Strong performance in your degree of choice with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

• Strong written and verbal communication

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment

• Advanced or highly proficient in Excel, PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office products (e.g. Microsoft Visio and Outlook)

• Willingness to travel as needed based on client assignments (must be located within 1 hour of a major airport)

• U.S. Work Authorization required

**Posting Category**

Healthcare

**Opportunity Type**

Regular

**Country**

United States of America

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.

**What You Need To Know**

The Office of Strategic Management (OSM) supports Southern Wine & Spirits corporate, regional, sub-regional, state-level and functional leaders with strategy development, executive decision making and initiative implementation. Functioning as an internal consulting group, the team works in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with direct interaction with the company's senior executives and decision-makers. The small and flat team structure allows the team to be nimble and efficient, while at the same time exposing team members to various areas of the business. The OSM serves the entire Southern Glazer's Senior Leadership team-and especially the EVP-Chief Operating Officer, EVP-Finance and EVP-Administration.

Open your future to incredible career potential. Work for an industry-leader who invests in their people. Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is North America's preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. We were named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you're looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

**Overview**

The Analyst is a critical member of the OSM team focused on supporting corporate, divisional and functional leaders with strategy development, executive decision making and initiative implementation. As we identify and execute business improvement opportunities, you will have the unique opportunity to work with seasoned business professionals to develop analytical, problem-solving and communication skills in a dynamic and exciting industry. This team will ensure you have the opportunities and support needed to reach your professional development objectives.

Additionally, this position could serve as a stepping stone to a management position within OSM or the broader company. The Analyst is an integral part of a working team, providing support on a multitude of projects that span across SWS divisions and business functions. You will be responsible for providing analytical support on these projects as well as ad-hoc requests, as required. You will also be responsible for supporting the design and generation of financial and operational models and reports; provide project team support in such areas as new business acquisition and market entry, supplier and customer relations; and will develop analyses and presentation materials needed for the OSM team. As an Analyst, you will typically report to a Manager / Director depending on the project, but could work directly with a Vice President as well.

Analysts are expected to demonstrate highly refined analytical and communication skills, as well as the ability to work effectively in both independent and group settings. You will have a direct impact on overall team goals while promoting your own personal growth. The ideal candidate for this role will either have recently graduated from an MBA program and have about a year of analytical, strategy or consulting experience or, alternatively, the ideal candidate will have at least a year of management consulting experience doing analytical and/or project work.

**Primary Responsibilities**

+ Analytical Support: Structure analyses-including defining logic, business rules and assumptions-needed to drive business decisions. Deliver analyses employing a variety of programs (MS Excel, MS Access, SQL Server, etc.) and business intelligence tools (Business Objects, Diver, Data Warehouse, etc.) to identify, extract and analyze data.

+ Presentation Support: Support team members in the development of PowerPoint slides to effectively communicate findings.

+ Research Support: Conduct ad hoc and ongoing research projects related to strategic initiatives

+ Project Management Support: Support team members with analytical support as needed

**Additional Primary Responsibilities**

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ Education: Bachelor's Degree is required (cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above). Preferably in business, finance, economics, engineering, accounting or applied math. MBA is preferred but not required.

+ Experience: Relevant analytical work experience is required. 1-3 years of work experience preferred but will consider applicants with strong academic results and internship experience

+ Project Management Skills: Must possess excellent organizational skills with strong attention to detail

+ Computer Skills: Must have knowledge of extracting data from a database (knowledge of relational databases and Structured Query Language (SQL) is a strong plus). Advanced proficiency in MS Excel. Must be proficient in MS Word, and MS PowerPoint, and must have a working knowledge of MS Access. Ability to learn various business solutions programs (i.e., Diver, Business Objects, Tableau, etc.)

+ Analytical/Problem-Solving Skills: Must demonstrate strong critical thinking capabilities and analytical / problem-solving skills. Must be comfortable interpreting and manipulating large amounts of data. Must demonstrate a structured, analytical thought process.

+ Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to tell a story with data.

+ Detail Oriented: Accuracy and attention to detail are imperative.

+ Commitment: Must demonstrate commitment to getting the job done. Hours will vary on a weekly basis based on workload and project deadlines.

+ People & Team Skills: Must have sufficient self-confidence, poise and interpersonal skills to be able to work effectively as part of a team and to take part in professional discussions. Also must be able to sustain performance under conditions of stress-such as tight deadlines and detailed questioning. Must demonstrate ability to be a team player and quick learner in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

+ Location: Must be willing to reside in South Florida.

**Physical Demands**

+ Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or adding machine

+ Physical demands with activity or condition may include occasional to rare amount of time include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping

+ May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 15lbs

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that is improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation is not about another gadget; it is about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There is no room for error. If you are looking for a better place to use your passion and your desire to drive change, this is the place to be. It's an opportunity to do **your life's best work.(sm)**

Begin your career at UnitedHealth Group and you'll get an opportunity to do something extraordinary with your first job out of school: make a real difference: 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. Talented. Brilliant. Compassionate. 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 performance teams against sophisticated challenges. It's a culture of optimism that's unlike any place you've ever worked. Many incredible ideas in one incredible company.

OptumInsight, a division of Optum, 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.

OptumInsight is one of the largest and fastest growing health information companies. We specialize in improving the performance of the health system by providing analytics, technology, and consulting services that enable better decisions and results. We integrate workflow solutions that deliver data in real-time and create actionable insights - processing health information that relates directly to and impacts one in four patients in the U.S., one in every three Medicaid dollars and one in every five emergency room visits. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation & Performance.

What can YOU do with the right information? At OptumInsight, your possibilities and your impact are limitless. No matter what your role is at OptumInsight, 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 full-time position will be available starting in Summer 2023****
****UnitedHealth Group is not able to offer visa sponsorship now or in the future for position****

****Consulting Development Program Locations: Eden Prairie, MN, Washington, DC and Nashville, TN****

The Consulting Development Program is a two-year program for recent college graduates who are interested in developing and deploying client-facing, problem-solving and presentation skills with health care clients. The Consulting Development Program sits within Optum Advisory Services and allows for early career professionals to experience a variety of health care clients through a variety of engagements. CDP members have the opportunity to work on diverse client teams while also receiving mentorship and formal training in key consulting skillsets.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

Working directly with our clients to help determine needs and solve complex business problems by performing the following types of activities:

+ Enable strategic business transformation through the application of technology, process improvement and innovation to our client's most complex problems

+ Conduct research & stakeholder interviews that may include collecting, analyzing, trending and presenting data and recommendations to clients

+ Navigate client facing interactions, presentations and relationship building in scenarios of project delivery, social situations, change management and at times ambiguity

+ Promote project success with requirements analysis, presentation creation and project management duties; including meeting management, project planning and project budget support

+ Document customer/client requirements through clear, concise and effective written and oral communication

+ Perform analysis for business process re-engineering opportunities and define, develop and document before and after process flows

+ Participate in assessment, project sizing, market analysis and scope evaluation of potential project deliverables

+ Grow in specific areas of interest and develop subject matter expertise

+ Develop and support in the delivery of client facing presentations

+ Provide support and information to clients making strategic decisions and implement enhancements to their organizations' strategy, productivity, performance and long-term profitability

Example Projects

Optum Advisory Services provides consulting support to a wide range of health care clients. Some example projects might include:

+ Building a go-to-market strategy and business case to bring a new product or service to market by providing an opportunity analysis derived through complex data navigation

+ Designing an organizational management structure to help improve health care delivery operations

+ Conducting a technology assessment and developing an implementation plan in a payer or provider organization

+ Creating and executing an acquisition strategy of a medical group or provider organization; guiding the organization through the acquisition process

+ Conducting Change Management assessments and stakeholder engagements to ensure adoption of recommendations within a multi-faceted project

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

+ Ability to Travel up to 80% for the Optum Consulting Development Program

+ 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.

+ Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation

**Preferred Qualifcations:**

+ 3.0 GPA

+ Health care Experience

+ Intellectual Curiosity

_To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment_

**Careers with Optum.** Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do **your life's best work.(sm)**

_Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law._

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