Associate Director Six Sigma

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.

Bring Six Sigma methodology and analytics into organizational operations in order to accomplish business objectives. This includes working with Six Sigma-certified professionals in the plan, design and accomplishment of key projects. Incumbents matched to this function require accredited Six Sigma training.

Primary Responsibilities

• Drive Six Sigma quality culture in the organization.
• Lead and oversees work performed by a team of Six Sigma practitioners & project managers in aligned span
• Tracks and ensures that process improvement goals in aligned span are met and relevant initiatives are launched to support attainment of critical business objectives
• Leads functional or segment teams or projects
• Frontlines and collaborates well with leaders and with Stateside business partners
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in any discipline
• Six Sigma Black Belt or Master Black Belt certification from a recognized certification body or previous organization is an advantage
• Project Management certification / Master's of Business Administration is an advantage
• Work experience in Six Sigma and CI projects (10+ years), 12+ years of total work experience
• Leadership - people management experience of 3+ years
• Experience in projects involving emerging technologies (automation, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intellgience, etc)
• Experience solving major project or customer issues
• Demonstrated experience in change management
• Extensive experience in working with stakeholders across leadership levels
• Proven excellent communication & presentation skills
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Lean Six Sigma
• Project Management
• Design Thinking
• Proven exposure to a US Healthcare account in previous role or organization
  
  

Skills/Attributes

• Clearly describes the way they approach aligning their team including shared goals, team building and more
• Networks within their team, department, organization, industry and community
• Advocates with senior leaders for change or for a new idea
• Highlights the possibilities that exist, while acknowleding difficulties will exist when deciding
• Seeks to understand the 'why' behind decisions, provides examples of when they have done so and how they translated this to the team
• Helps the team learn from mistakes and errors, rarely repeating any
• Is an active coach to their teams and routinely provides performance and development feedback
• Supports the team to come up with new and better ways to do work, solve problems or meet stakeholders and customers needs
• Provides the team with guidance about what is expected, as well as a common starting point for shared work
• Makes decisions that yield productive or positive outcomes most of the time
  
  

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.