Resiliency Consultant - Remote

UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that's dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a diverse team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The purpose of this position is to provide leadership to business continuity planners. A key focus of this role is to develop risk mitigation strategies for critical business functions related to unplanned business disruption and assuring accuracy, consistency, and completeness of business segment contingency plans. Key activities include coordinating business continuity planning efforts and acting as a subject matter expert, working with plan owners and corporate teams to develop, update, enhance, and monitor business continuity plans including facilitating communications between recovery team members, IT, and corporate subject matter experts. This position provides coordination and support of Global Crisis Management function with segment recovery team members and facilitates timely identification, escalation, resolution and follow-up on issues.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• As a team member of the Enterprise Resilience program and organization, provide leadership, business continuity (BC) expertise, and support to business continuity planners and executives
  
• Assure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of business continuity plans for critical business areas in order to maintain continued operations, asset protection, and loss mitigation in the event of a disruption and ensure that business teams adhere to enterprise policy and guidelines for effective recovery of business operations
  
• Analyze recovery strategy assessment data to identify and mitigate areas of existing and emerging business risks/losses. Develop effective risk management strategies and programs for assigned business segments, monitor compliance, and take corrective action to limit risk exposure. Serve as a subject matter expert working with segment business continuity teams to develop, update, enhance, and monitor business continuity plans.
• Coordinate the tabletop, functional, and onsite testing/exercises of business continuity plan portfolio and ensure timely completion of the lifecycle
  
• Provide support as needed to the Global Crisis Management team by facilitating timely identification, escalation, resolution and follow-up on event-related business recovery issues; Provide on-call coverage, and leadership to the Business Recovery Teams
  
• Oversee highly complex business continuity and crisis management activities within the Enterprise Resilience program for the assigned business segments under minimal supervision in support of continuous improvement and in alignment with company strategies, goals and objectives, developing and interpreting policies, procedures and guidelines
  
• Research, analyze, evaluate and report on all aspects of the business groups' Business Continuity program(s)
  
• Participate in the development of the program's annual objectives, timetables, and resource requirements
  
• Ensure measurement tools are in place to evaluate effectiveness of the programs within the business groups
  
• Interpret internal business continuity policies as they relate to programs for business segment leadership and recovery teams
  
• Develop reports and deliver presentations to business segments' management regarding business continuity recommendations related to programs
  
• Participate in the development of communication, training and educational programs related to program outcomes
  
• Leading program maturing projects. Ensure projects adhere to strict budget and timeframe constraints
  
• Ability to travel up to 10%

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:

• 5+ years of presentation skills including the ability to interface with senior management
  
• 3+ years of experience of progressive responsibility/ experience in business continuity and crisis management planning
  
• 3+ years of experience in Business continuity program testing, plan development and maintenance
  
• 3+ years of proven knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery methodologies and principles, including current industry standards and practices
  
• 1+ years of leadership skills, including the ability to interact with individuals at all organizational levels to build solid team relations
  
• 1+ years of experience in the use of Fusion Framework System

Preferred Qualification:

• CBCP Certificate (Certified Business Continuity Professional)

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

The salary range for this role is $89,800 to $176,700 annually 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.

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.