Principal Healthcare Strategy

Profile

Description

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.

Responsibilities

The Healthcare Strategy team supports Humana's Medicare and Medicaid business unit. This business unit, Humana's largest, 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 Humana's largest businesses.

Humana is seeking an experienced team member with meaningful management consulting experience to manage and deliver some of Medicare and Medicaid's highest priority projects, with an emphasis on, and partnership with, clinical leadership to develop and communicate our clinical strategy. As a Principal, 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. This role is 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 projects include assessing the performance of strategic initiatives and business areas, development of a refreshed end-to-end enterprise clinical strategy, evolving key facets of the Medicare Advantage growth strategy, and identifying improvement opportunities for a key business function.

Key responsibilities include:

Overseeing and delivering high quality analysis and deliverables that clearly frame objectives, issues/challenges, and articulate compelling, insightful findings, conclusions, and recommendations

Managing and delivering large workstreams within high-profile, high-impact strategy projects end-to-end, from developing an approach to delivering recommendations and final deliverables; independently managing end-to-end smaller scale strategy projects

Developing high quality, insightful, and clear analysis and deliverables for Humana's executive management team and Board of Directors

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

Leading critical processes to prepare leadership for interactions with Humana's Executive Management Team and Board of Directors

Being a steward of the strategy team's operating model, norms and ways of working

Role Essentials

Bachelor's Degree with outstanding academic credentials

At least 2 years of full-time work experience with a leading management consulting firm

Demonstrated ability to manage large, substantive components of strategy consulting engagements

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 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

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

Prior healthcare industry experience, preferably in the managed care or provider sector

Additional Information

The role reports to the Associate Vice President of the Strategy team, works collaboratively with members of rest of the team, and with senior clinical/enterprise leadership throughout the company

Work-At-Home Requirements

Must have the ability to provide a high speed DSL or cable modem for a home office. Associates or contractors who live and work from home in the state of California will be provided payment for their internet expense.

A minimum standard speed for optimal performance of 25x10 (25mpbs download x 10mpbs upload) is required.

Satellite and Wireless Internet service is NOT allowed for this role.

A dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information

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Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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.

Company info

Humana Inc.
Website : http://www.humana.com