Growth Strategy Principal

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Humana, a Fortune 50 Healthcare Company
Humana is a publicly traded, Fortune 50 health benefits company with a long history of successful innovation and reinvention. It has transformed itself from the largest US nursing home company in the ’60s, to the largest US hospital corporation in the ’80s, to a leading health benefits company beginning in the ’90s. Today, Humana is a leader in consumer-focused health solutions and is one of the largest health benefits organizations in the country.

Role Overview: Growth Strategy Principal

The Enterprise Growth Strategy team is a newly created organization supporting growth across Humana’s businesses. The team has a strong dotted-line partnership with the Medicare and Medicaid organization, Humana’s largest, which comprises over 80% of the company’s total revenue and the majority of its earnings. Team members partner with the senior leaders of the business unit, and more broadly with leaders throughout the enterprise, as they deliver strategy projects addressing some of the businesses’ most important opportunities and challenges. These high-profile strategy projects place the team at the forefront of helping to define the future of the organization.

Humana is seeking an experienced team member to support delivering some of the Growth team’s highest priority projects and initiatives, with an emphasis on Medicare Advantage strategy development. As a Principal, you will lead small teams to deconstruct issues and challenges, perform targeted research and analysis, and craft sound, logical solutions and recommendations. You will also shape implementation considerations, and work with business owners as appropriate to transition analysis into execution. While doing so, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow team members, subject matter experts, members of Humana’s executive Management Team, and corporate, functional, and business unit leaders. This role will have a particular focus on strategic integration and collaboration across the Growth organization.

Your role will be instrumental in synthesizing the strategic choices being made across the organization into a coherent plan to drive growth and profitability, while simultaneously improving the lives and health of Humana’s members. As such, the ability to facilitate critical meetings, drive diverse groups to consensus, and lead through influence will be essential to success in this role.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing multiple high-profile, high-impact strategy projects

• Leading interviews and working sessions with leaders within Enterprise Growth and across the broader organization

• Leading teams conducting industry, market, competitor, and financial analysis and distilling insights for Humana

• Creating high quality analysis and deliverables that clearly frame objectives, issues, and challenges, and articulate insightful findings and recommendations

• Working collaboratively with fellow team members and leaders across the company

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with outstanding academic credentials

• 6-8+ years of full-time work experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate/ business unit strategy, or finance, including a strong record of leadership

• Strong problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to perform complex quantitative and qualitative analysis

• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities

• Ability to quickly build and maintain trust with business leaders

• Highly collaborative, flexible, teamwork-oriented working style

• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop junior staff

• Strong commitment to personal and professional growth

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, MPH, PhD, or graduate degree in a management field

• Managed care and/or healthcare services work experience

Additional Information

• Flexibility with work location; options include:
  • Humana’s New York office in Midtown Manhattan
  • Humana’s headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky
  • Remote, with majority of work conducted on Eastern time

Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.$166,700 - $229,200 per yearThis job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About Us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.