Posted On: 3-5-2014
Position Title: Senior Traffic Analyst
Job Location: Overland Park, KS – Oklahoma City, OK – Jacksonville, FL – Tucson, AZ
Requisition Number:  54627
Apply at: https://careers.unitedhealthgroup.com/

Energize your career with one of health care’s fastest growing companies.

Some people are never satisfied with what they did yesterday. We’re with them and the incredible growth of UnitedHealth Group and our OptumRx Pharmacy Benefits business is satisfying proof that we’re on to something. This opportunity is with one of our most exciting business areas: OptumRx – a growing part of our family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group a Fortune 17 leader.

The Workforce Representative is responsible for all scheduling, call volume monitoring and adjusting. Responsible for determining and communicating work schedules, resources for various call queues. The Workforce Representative works with site leaders to ensure adequate staff, contingency plans and workflow monitoring.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Use workforce management software and call volume history to help manage intra-day staffing levels and to determine the most effective methods for staffing adjustments- Utilize call center tools to observe agents actual state compared to agents scheduled state
  • Manage real-time inbound call traffic to help ensure that service levels are met
  • Gain an understanding of the technical and business solutions: optimized schedules, forecasts and other tools and present them to management
  • Prepare and maintain reports, dashboards and monthly packages
  • Gain familiarity with analysis and ensure consistent methodologies are followed to maintain quality
  • Support the preparation of ad hoc analysis that enables strong understanding of the business
  • Provide training on report, dashboard and package development to team members and management as needed
  • Ensure that call center resources are scheduled and utilized to provide optimum service levels in all skill groups
  • Identify and coordinate training needs as well as the dates and times for the training
  • Coordinate with local leadership teams to schedule offline activities to balance SVL’s while also ensuring that local and national priorities are met
  • Analysis for scheduling and call volume data to manage the SVL in a complex environment
  • Manage realignment, mini bids and shift bids
  • Provide weekly plan to workforce leader and operations team to identify the opportunities and challenges of the coming week
  • Provide clear and concise trending and statistical reporting
  • Expert in Monet scheduling software and its maintenance
  • Maintaining time off allotments
  • Coordinating FMLA and other off the phone exceptions to ensure that standards are met or otherwise communicated
  • Maintenance of data integrity in all workforce systems
  • New Hire presentations reviewing call center processes and procedures including but not limited to requesting time off, and Monet Anywhere
  • Responsible for the maintenance of seating utilization in a multi partner environment
  • Work closely with the Workforce manager on staffing suggestions and the timing of those suggestions
  • Extensive work experience, possibly in multiple functions. – Work does not usually require established procedures
  • Works independently
  • Mentors others
  • Acts as a resource for others
  • Coordinates others’ activities

Requirements:

  • High School diploma/GED
  • 2+ years of workforce management experience (i.e. responsible for scheduling, call volume monitoring and adjusting, determining and communicating work schedules and resources for call queues, consulting with call operations, etc)
  • 3 years of experience with workforce systems such as Avaya, CMS, IEX, eWFM, Genesis, and/or Blue Pumpkin
  • Intermediate level of MS Excel experience
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule, including weekends
  • 2+ years of operations experience

Assets:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

OptumRx 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.

If you’re ready to talk about groundbreaking interactions, let’s talk about what happens when a firm that touches millions of lives decides to gather results from millions of prescriptions every month and analyze their impact. Let’s talk about smart, motivated teams. Let’s talk about more effective and affordable health care solutions. This is caring. This is great chemistry. This is the way to make a difference. We’re doing all this, and more, through a greater dedication to our shared values of integrity, compassion, relationships, innovation and performance.

OptumRx is an empowering place for people with the flexibility to help create change. Innovation is part of the job description. And passion for improving the lives of our customers is a motivating factor in everything we do. In the largest and most personal sense, your impact can be greater than even you thought at OptumRx.

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.