Optum Advisory Consultancy Intern (Summer 2025)

Optum, the fast-growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernizing the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

If you want an intern experience that will dramatically shape your career, consider a company that’s dramatically shaping our entire health care system. UnitedHealth Group internship opportunities will provide a hands-on view of a rapidly evolving, incredibly challenging marketplace of ideas, products and services. You will work side by side with some of the smartest people in the business on assignments that matter. Join us, and you may end up staying for a career in which you can do your life’s best work.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office.

About the Internship

As a Consultancy Intern, you will work within the Ireland Optum Advisory (OA) team. Joining our team, you’ll become part of a driven, focused group that prides itself on continuously improving business results. As a trusted subject matter expert tasked with incorporating traditional expertise into innovative, cutting-edge actuarial, analytic and data science solutions, you’ll find your performance recognized and rewarded in an environment that provides clear direction for success.

You will encounter great opportunities to enhance and develop your skills through some or all the following activities:

• Assisting in the development and maintenance of predictive models, analytical and visualization tools

• Assisting in the development of actuarial data architecture and assumption setting

• Conducting and documenting moderately complex analysis and research

• Preparing, forecasting, and analyzing trends using large volumes of US Healthcare data

• Providing detailed summaries, reports, and recommendations to assist managerial decision making

• Maintaining the necessary communication and coordination with colleagues, stakeholders, and clients in multiple locations

Required Qualifications/Skills:

• Progressing through or completed an Actuarial, Financial Mathematics or other relevant Quantitative degree program

• Ability to quickly learn and use computer software tools effectively

• Exposure to one or more of the following tools: Excel, R, Python, SAS or SQL

• Good communication skills

• The ability to work a portion of monthly work hours from our Dublin or Letterkenny office is required

This role is targeted at university students who are seeking a summer internship from Jun-Aug 2025.

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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 marginalised 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: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.