Title: Vendor Management Analyst Location:  Eden Prairie, MN, United States Job Description: Requisition number: 2355317 Job category: Business & Data Analytics Primary location: Eden Prairie, MN Overtime status: ExemptTravel: No   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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Optum Bank is seeking a Vendor Management Analyst to join a highly visible and dynamic team. As a Vendor Management Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing vendor relationships, driving efficiency, and ensuring operational excellence across various vendor services.  Your key areas of focus will be: - Regulatory Compliance: Develop and implement strategies to ensure vendors adhere to all regulatory requirements and industry best practices - Risk Management: Safeguard operational integrity by continuously monitoring vendor compliance and mitigating potential risks - Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with internal and external stakeholders, including compliance and legal teams, vendors, and other departments - Innovation and Customer Focus: Foster a forward-thinking approach to regulatory governance, focusing on continuous improvement and cost-effectiveness In addition, this role will involve operational oversight and ongoing development, strengthening regulatory governance initiatives, and being accountable for implementing strategies to enhance vendor compliance. To succeed in this role, you need to work well with all bank leaders and operational functions, inside and outside Optum Bank. The ideal candidate is strategic, collaborative, determined, and detail-oriented. This role focuses on risk interpretation and stakeholder communication; it does not involve hands on testing, coding, or technical control execution. You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week. Primary Responsibilities: - Review and interpret third party contracts, service level agreements (SLAs), and assurance documentation (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST) to identify vendor risk considerations and compliance gaps from a business and regulatory perspective - Collaborate with internal stakeholders to assess vendor alignment with organizational policies and risk tolerance - Assist in developing and maintaining third-party governance frameworks, policies, and procedures - Prepare regular reports on vendor risk status for senior leadership, risk committees, and auditors - Monitor overall vendor program performance against SLAs, KPIs, and risk mitigation plans - Partner with Procurement, Legal, IT, and other departments to ensure a holistic approach to third-party risk management - Provide training to internal stakeholders on TPRM policies, tools, and best practices - Track regulatory developments and ensure vendors remain compliant with applicable laws and guidelines (e.g., FDIC, CFPB, etc) - Maintain a centralized repository of third-party documentation, including risk assessments, contracts, SLAs, and third party  - Work with vendors and internal teams to remediate identified issues or risks 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: - 3+ years of vendor management experience within a financial organization  - 2+ years of experience with internal and external audit compliance support (FDIC, FDICIA, GLBA, SOC)  - 2+ years of GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) experience  - 2+ years of experience with regulatory guidelines pertaining to security of sensitive data; PII, PCI, PHI, etc.  - 2+ years of experience with HIPPA, PCI, HITRUST, SOX Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with creating presentations for executive audience with the ability to translate and communicate complex Business, IT and operational challenges into perspectives that are understandable, impactful and actionable for leaders  - Financial Services industry experience - Located in MN *All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $72,800 to $130,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable. 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. UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations. UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

• Support end-to-end presales activities for Supply Chain transformation and technology engagements. • Contribute to RFP/RFI responses, proposal development, solution narratives, effort estimates, assumptions, and delivery approaches. • Work with sales, practice leadership, solution architects, and delivery teams to develop compelling client proposals. • Create client-facing presentations, solution decks, offering materials, business case documents, and executive-level discussion materials. • Support the development of new supply chain service offerings, accelerators, frameworks, and reusable consulting assets. • Participate in client meetings, discovery workshops, demos, and solution walkthroughs. • Lead or support requirements gathering sessions with client business stakeholders across supply chain functions. • Analyze current-state business processes, identify gaps, pain points, risks, and opportunities for improvement. • Translate business needs into functional requirements, user stories, process flows, business rules, and solution specifications. • Conduct fit-gap analysis between business requirements and technology platform capabilities. • Support the definition of future-state processes, operating models, and solution designs. • Bridge communication between business users, product teams, technical teams, implementation partners, and leadership stakeholders. • Collaborate with solution architects and technical teams to design supply chain planning and execution solutions powered by data & analytics. • Support configuration discussions, functional design, integration requirements, data requirements, testing, and deployment planning. • Help define KPIs, dashboards, reports, and analytics requirements for supply chain visibility and decision-making. • Support UAT planning, test case development, defect triage, and business validation. • Ensure proposed solutions align with business objectives, industry best practices, and technology platform capabilities. • Provide domain expertise during implementation, transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives. • Lead client discussions with confidence and structure, especially around business processes, requirements, and solution options. • Build strong relationships with client stakeholders across business, IT, operations, and leadership teams. • Facilitate workshops, design sessions, process reviews, and executive readouts. • Communicate complex business and technology concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Manage competing stakeholder priorities and support decision-making through structured analysis and recommendations.

• Desarrollar modelos estadísticos de segmentación de clientes que ayuden a identificar señales de alerta y operaciones inusuales relacionadas con LAFT. • Construir e implementar de manera metódica modelos analíticos con el fin de optimizar procesos por medio de bases de datos relacionales y no relacionales. • Proponer e articular la implementar estrategias integrales de monitoreo de y seguimiento a las operaciones de los clientes, para la mitigación del riesgo LAFT según nuevos productos y servicios. • Diseñar, implementar y monitorear indicadores descriptivos y prospectivos que permitan evaluar la efectividad y madurez de los sistemas de administración de riesgos. • Apoyar la consolidación, validación y envío oportuno de la información y reportes periódicos exigidos por la Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia, asegurando la integridad, calidad y veracidad de los datos reportados. • Colaborar estrechamente con diferentes dominios de la organización para identificar oportunidades de aplicación de análisis de datos y proporcionar soluciones basadas en evidencia. • Definición y cálculo de las métricas de negocio asociadas a Compliance y gestión de riesgo LAFT. • Colaborar con equipos multifuncionales, como gerentes de productos, marketing y operaciones, para alinear las estrategias de gestión de riesgo LAFT con diferentes productos y servicios. • Generar insights basados en datos que permitan definir y ajustar las estrategias orientadas hacia la gestión del riesgo. • Desarrollar y mantener informes regulares y ad hoc que proporcionen visibilidad sobre los principales. • Trabajar con equipos de ingeniería de datos para garantizar que se recopilen, procesen y analicen adecuadamente los datos relevantes para el producto de cuenta digital. • Garantizar que el manejo y análisis de datos cumplan con las regulaciones de privacidad de datos y las políticas internas de cumplimiento.

• work as a part of the team to enhance the client's existing systems into a single solution by integrating a centralized database system • eliminate duplicate and redundant data systems which would improve the tracking, regulation of licensing, compliance, and laboratory activities • streamline services for consumers, support more robust reporting, such as real-time tracking of applicant, licensee and compliance performance measures • assess and document existing business processes by leveraging experience with BPI methodologies • conduct data and process analysis to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement • develop, recommend, and implement process improvement strategies to optimize performance including Business Process and Workflow diagrams • identify data-driven insights to measure the effectiveness of process changes and drive sustainable improvements • provide guidance and training to employees on process changes • lead and support continuous improvement initiatives to drive operational efficiency across client organization