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What We Offer

All of us at UnitedHealth Group are bound by more than our mission and our culture. While we’re each one-of- a-kind, we share an incredible goal: to greatly improve the lives and health of others. It’s an ambitious goal that serves as both a challenge and an inspiration. Here, you’ll know that your contributions are helping to drive affordability, accessibility and quality of care for millions while you’re growing and shaping the future of your career.

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Career Growth and Development

Every year UnitedHealth Group becomes more diversified, more expansive and more global. And every year, we see remarkable participation levels in our employee career development resources. This is where each employee maps their own career direction, gathers the resources, mentoring and training help they need and drives their own journey within a business landscape like no other. Our growth in product lines, services, revenues and geography translates into abundant career opportunities for a team of people who number more than 300,000 strong. Your managers at every level are committed to their roles as talent stewards who help guide and nurture your development. We want you to reach your highest level of potential just as you help us reach ours.

Exceptional Colleagues

Smart. Creative. Dedicated. Hard working and mission driven. Talk about the company you keep! Working here puts you on a team of high energy, passionate people who have taken UnitedHealth Group to Fortune 7 levels of performance and growth. Our business presence and operations are expanding all across the globe, exposing you to colleagues and team members with widely divergent experiences and viewpoints. We earn and give trust to one another through truthfulness, integrity, active engagement and collaboration with colleagues. Together, we celebrate what makes each person special as we work together to challenge the status quo. Join us and you’ll be part of a culture that prizes innovation and works with uncompromising integrity.

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Personal Empowerment

What kind of strategy makes sense for a company that’s out to hire the most talented, energetic, intelligent and passionate people on the planet? This one: give them ambitious goals. Then provide the tools, the resources and the autonomy that empower them to drive results. We’re going to challenge you to find new and better ways of performing within a culture that’s driven to drive change. Your leaders will provide you with the support and feedback you need to reach new levels of achievement every day. Empowerment is state of mind, a way of working together that makes UnitedHealth Group so successful in so many ways.

Recognizing Contributions

Look, if you make a great play, it’s only right that you hear the roar of the crowd. When you join UnitedHealth Group your performance will be recognized and rewarded by those who direct your work and who share your challenges. You’ll be part of a team that’s looking out for one another, giving high fives and aiming together for the next ambitious achievement. We believe that accountability and measurement unlock ever higher levels of performance. So we’ve shaped a results-driven culture that relies heavily on setting goals, measuring results, and simply reaching higher. In short, we work hard, but take the time to celebrate success. And there’s a lot of it to go around.

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Health & Wellness

We offer competitive health and well-being options and we significantly contribute to the cost of benefits for you and your family. So, no matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far reaching choice of employee benefits — choices that offer greater flexibility to tailor your benefits to your individual needs.

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Consumer-Driven Health Plans

Consumer-Driven Health Plans or Primary Care Plans allows you to choose how to manage your health care. We offer a range of options from consumer directed plans to primary care directed plans to keep employees engaged in decisions about their health care. In addition, we offer Vision and Dental Plans, Flexible Spending Accounts and more!

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Retirement & Savings

With UnitedHealth Group you can begin planning for the future from the first day you begin your career. When you join our team you will have the opportunity to take advantage of our 401(k) Savings Plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and to join the UnitedHealth Group Credit Union.

Work & Life

At UnitedHealth Group we believe in making life work, which is why we offer a variety of benefits for our employees and their families. Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Company Holidays, Education Reimbursement, Adoption Assistance and more is what you can look forward to as a part of the UnitedHealth Group team.

More About our Benefits

Our mission of helping people live healthier lives extends to our employees. UnitedHealth Group gives you the programs and resources you need to take care of your health and manage health care costs. Health and wellness benefits are available to regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week. Click below to learn more about the benefits we offer.