Director, Insurance Strategy - Humana
Augusta, ME
About the Job
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Humana, a Fortune 50 Healthcare Company
Humana is a publicly traded, Fortune 50 healthcare company with a long history of successful innovation and reinvention. It has transformed itself from the largest US nursing home company in the 60’s, to the largest US hospital corporation in the 80’s, to a leading health benefits company beginning in the 90’s. Today, Humana is a leader in consumer-focused health solutions and is one of the largest health benefits organizations in the country.
Location: remote
The Insurance Strategy team supports Humana’s Medicare and Medicaid lines of business. This business unit, Humana’s largest, comprises the majority of the company’s total revenue and 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 Humana’s largest businesses.
Humana is seeking a team member with significant strategy consulting experience to manage and deliver end-to-end strategy projects and analysis prioritized by business unit leadership. The role will be responsible for leading a robust portfolio of deliverables and analysis for Humana’s Board of Directors and executive management team, including multi-year line of business strategies and annual strategic planning for the business unit. You will lead team members during projects as you 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.
While deep diving into key areas, you will also have a bird’s-eye view of the business unit’s overall strategy. Your role be instrumental in synthesizing the strategic choices being made across the business unit into coherent plans to drive growth and profitability, while simultaneously improving the lives and health of Humana’s members. As such, the ability to facilitate senior level meetings, drive diverse groups to consensus, and lead through influence will be essential to success in this role.
Recent example team projects include development of a 5-year growth strategy for the business unit, evolving key dimensions of the Medicare Advantage growth strategy, developing a refreshed membership acquisition strategy, assessing the performance of strategic initiatives and business areas, and identifying improvement opportunities for a key business function.
Key responsibilities include:
+ Leading high quality, high impact deliverables for Humana’s Board of Directors and executive management team, including multi-year line of business strategies, the business unit’s annual strategic plan, and executive strategy presentations
+ Leading critical processes to prepare leadership for interactions with Humana’s executive Management Team and Board of Directors
+ Independently managing and delivering high-profile, high-impact strategy projects end-to-end, from developing an approach to delivering recommendations and final deliverables
+ Overseeing and delivering high quality analysis and deliverables that clearly frame objectives, issues/challenges, and articulate compelling, insightful findings, conclusions, and recommendations
+ Overseeing development of hypothesis to be validated or refined through targeted research and analysis
+ Conducting interviews, working sessions, and report-outs with leaders across the company
+ Overseeing industry, market, competitor, and financial analysis
+ Working collaboratively with fellow team members and leaders across the company
+ Effectively leading and developing junior members of the team, including multiple direct reports
+ Being a steward of the strategy team’s operating model, norms and ways of working
Use your skills to make an impact
Role Essentials
+ MBA or graduate degree
+ 5-7+ years of full-time work experience at a top tier strategy consulting firm, and/or strategy consulting related experience outside of a consulting firm (e.g., healthcare organization)
+ Demonstrated ability to independently manage and deliver strategy consulting engagements end-to-end
+ Significant experience leading enterprise, business unit, and line of business growth strategies; strategic planning expertise
+ Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
+ Highly collaborative, flexible, team oriented working style
+ Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis
+ Demonstrated ability to lead large teams both directly and indirectly, and to mentor and develop junior staff
+ Ability to quickly build and maintain trust with business leaders
+ Demonstrated ability working within a matrixed environment and managing senior stakeholders
Role Desirables
+ Prior healthcare industry experience, preferably in the managed care or provider sector
Additional Information
Humana is an organization with careers that change lives—including yours. As an innovator in the fast-paced industry of healthcare, we offer our associates careers that challenge, support and inspire them to use their passion for helping others and to lead their best lives. If you’re ready to help people achieve lifelong well-being, and be a part of an organization that is growing and poised to make an impact on the future of healthcare, Humana has the right opportunity for you.
Reporting Relationships
The role reports to the Associate Vice President of the Insurance Strategy team, works collaboratively with members of rest of the team, and with senior leadership throughout the company
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.
$168,000 - $231,000 per year
This 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, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
Application Deadline: 01-23-2025
About us
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and 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, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.
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 veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, 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.
Humana complies with all applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We also provide free language interpreter services. See our https://www.humana.com/legal/accessibility-resources?source=Humana_Website.
Humana, a Fortune 50 Healthcare Company
Humana is a publicly traded, Fortune 50 healthcare company with a long history of successful innovation and reinvention. It has transformed itself from the largest US nursing home company in the 60’s, to the largest US hospital corporation in the 80’s, to a leading health benefits company beginning in the 90’s. Today, Humana is a leader in consumer-focused health solutions and is one of the largest health benefits organizations in the country.
Location: remote
The Insurance Strategy team supports Humana’s Medicare and Medicaid lines of business. This business unit, Humana’s largest, comprises the majority of the company’s total revenue and 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 Humana’s largest businesses.
Humana is seeking a team member with significant strategy consulting experience to manage and deliver end-to-end strategy projects and analysis prioritized by business unit leadership. The role will be responsible for leading a robust portfolio of deliverables and analysis for Humana’s Board of Directors and executive management team, including multi-year line of business strategies and annual strategic planning for the business unit. You will lead team members during projects as you 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.
While deep diving into key areas, you will also have a bird’s-eye view of the business unit’s overall strategy. Your role be instrumental in synthesizing the strategic choices being made across the business unit into coherent plans to drive growth and profitability, while simultaneously improving the lives and health of Humana’s members. As such, the ability to facilitate senior level meetings, drive diverse groups to consensus, and lead through influence will be essential to success in this role.
Recent example team projects include development of a 5-year growth strategy for the business unit, evolving key dimensions of the Medicare Advantage growth strategy, developing a refreshed membership acquisition strategy, assessing the performance of strategic initiatives and business areas, and identifying improvement opportunities for a key business function.
Key responsibilities include:
+ Leading high quality, high impact deliverables for Humana’s Board of Directors and executive management team, including multi-year line of business strategies, the business unit’s annual strategic plan, and executive strategy presentations
+ Leading critical processes to prepare leadership for interactions with Humana’s executive Management Team and Board of Directors
+ Independently managing and delivering high-profile, high-impact strategy projects end-to-end, from developing an approach to delivering recommendations and final deliverables
+ Overseeing and delivering high quality analysis and deliverables that clearly frame objectives, issues/challenges, and articulate compelling, insightful findings, conclusions, and recommendations
+ Overseeing development of hypothesis to be validated or refined through targeted research and analysis
+ Conducting interviews, working sessions, and report-outs with leaders across the company
+ Overseeing industry, market, competitor, and financial analysis
+ Working collaboratively with fellow team members and leaders across the company
+ Effectively leading and developing junior members of the team, including multiple direct reports
+ Being a steward of the strategy team’s operating model, norms and ways of working
Use your skills to make an impact
Role Essentials
+ MBA or graduate degree
+ 5-7+ years of full-time work experience at a top tier strategy consulting firm, and/or strategy consulting related experience outside of a consulting firm (e.g., healthcare organization)
+ Demonstrated ability to independently manage and deliver strategy consulting engagements end-to-end
+ Significant experience leading enterprise, business unit, and line of business growth strategies; strategic planning expertise
+ Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
+ Highly collaborative, flexible, team oriented working style
+ Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis
+ Demonstrated ability to lead large teams both directly and indirectly, and to mentor and develop junior staff
+ Ability to quickly build and maintain trust with business leaders
+ Demonstrated ability working within a matrixed environment and managing senior stakeholders
Role Desirables
+ Prior healthcare industry experience, preferably in the managed care or provider sector
Additional Information
Humana is an organization with careers that change lives—including yours. As an innovator in the fast-paced industry of healthcare, we offer our associates careers that challenge, support and inspire them to use their passion for helping others and to lead their best lives. If you’re ready to help people achieve lifelong well-being, and be a part of an organization that is growing and poised to make an impact on the future of healthcare, Humana has the right opportunity for you.
Reporting Relationships
The role reports to the Associate Vice President of the Insurance Strategy team, works collaboratively with members of rest of the team, and with senior leadership throughout the company
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.
$168,000 - $231,000 per year
This 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, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
Application Deadline: 01-23-2025
About us
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and 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, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.
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 veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, 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.
Humana complies with all applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We also provide free language interpreter services. See our https://www.humana.com/legal/accessibility-resources?source=Humana_Website.
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