Job: Human Capital Partner - OptumHealth - Collaborative Care - TN

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Jobing Description

In providing consumer-oriented health benefit plans to millions of people, our goal is to create higher quality care, lower costs and greater access to health care. As a human capital professional, you will be empowered to achieve new levels of excellence and make a profound and personal impact as you contribute to new innovations in a vital and complex system.

Contributes to business performance by providing strategic consulting on people strategies, organization development and other Human Resources specific or business initiatives for a defined business or operational area.

- Strategic and Organization Consulting: Consults on people matters relating to the formulation of the operational area's Human Capital strategy and plan along with the organizational requirements to execute that strategy and plan.

- Compliance: Ensure UnitedHealth Group is in compliance with external legal and regulatory requirements, as well as internal policies and procedures.

- Workforce Planning: Conducts in-depth supply and demand analyses of the current and future people and skills needs of the organization and develop strategies and plans to meet those needs. Aids in defining talent management, recruiting strategy and execution, and talent retention plans and MBOs. Provides managers with human capital management information from the HR/PeopleSoft assets, Talent Surveys, and Recruiting profiles, and assists them with using this information.

- Culture, Vision and Values: Facilitates the definition and communication of the organization culture, visions and values which to guides the decisions and actions of the managers and employees of the organization. Acts as a change agent to the business and designs processes and approaches, which prepare employees for ongoing change and transformation.

- Leadership and Key Talent Development, Retention and Acquisition: Creates processes and experiences that grow the capacity of the organization's key people resources which include key talent identification, planning, development and recruitment. Encourages building strength through diversity. Designs and implements retention strategies focusing on key leaders and individuals with core competencies or skills critical to the organization. Maximizes the enterpise-wide compensation, reward and recognition programs and develops additional initiatives which will support the goals of the business segment.

- Employee Involvement and Engagement: Identifies through elements of the work environment strategies to increase productivity, employee performance, and employee satisfaction and design metrics to track the effectiveness of these initiatives. Creates processes and solutions in partnership with management which support a positive employee relations environment through effective communications, policies and practices.

- Organizational Change and Integration: Assists in the human capital strategies to ensure effective integration of acquisitions. This may include cultural assimilation and talent identification and selection. Provides guidance and counsel on the people decisions and actions, which are involved in divestiture activity. Primarily interacts with business leaders in the defined business or operational area as well as the larger enterprise. Extensive interaction and effective working relationships with the Human Resources Service Environment staff to ensure effective development and implementation of programs, practices and processes to meet business needs.

- Other Responsibilites: Develops the strategic Human Capital Plan, which aligns with the overall segment Human Capital Plan. Provides organization consulting on key people strategies in support of the business segment objectives. Initiates key talent development, sourcing and deployment strategies, which may apply segment-wide or enterprise-wide.

The Human Capital Partner has client responsibility at a strategic level for a newly acquired post acute organization. Primary focus to begin with will be to assist with the integration of the leadership team into the United environment.

The Human Capital Partner has client or multi-client responsibility at a strategic level. This role functions independently and may manage a small number of Human Capital Consultants or Specialist. The Human Capital Partner has approval authority for a broad range of human capital decisions. This job is considered part of the business leadership team.

Skills / Requirements

Masters degree in Human Resources, Business or related field or demonstrated equivalency (e.g., certifications).

10+ years Human Resources generalist experience with expertise in all Human Resources functional areas with a strong emphasis in organization development/effectiveness and leadership development.

Experience working in a Human Resources function with a shared service delivery and strategic business partner model.

Demonstrated history of quickly gaining credibility and partnering with business leaders.

Experience and comfort in working in a matrix environment, across multiple geographies.

Demonstrated project management skills including the management of vendor relationships.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Intermediate level of proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel and Powerpoint)


OptumHealth is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.

OptumHealth helps nearly 60 million Americans live their lives to the fullest by educating them about their symptoms, conditions and treatments; helping them to navigate the system, finance their health care needs and stay on track with their health goals. No other business touches so many lives in such a positive way. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation & Performance.

At OptumHealth, you will perform within an innovative culture that's focused on transformational change in the health care system. You will leverage your skills across a diverse and multi-faceted business. And you will make contributions that will have an impact that's greater than you've ever imagined.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.