Associate VP Corporate Strategy

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Humana

Associate VP, Corporate Strategy

in

Washington

District Of Columbia

Description

Humana is a national leader in transforming the way health care is delivered, aiming to be a partner in health and aging for our consumers. In addition to our market leading Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription drug businesses, Humana continues to invest in developing a robust integrated care delivery model that integrates insurance with high value health care services, such as Primary Care, Home Care, and Pharmacy. Humana operates the 4th largest PBM, 8th largest dispensing pharmacy, owns a major stake in the nation's largest home health care and hospice operator (Kindred at Home), and is quickly growing a portfolio of owned and joint venture senior-focused primary care assets including, Partners in Primary Care, Conviva, JenCare, and Iora. Humana is also a leader in digital health technology, operating Go365, a mobile-based Wellness solution as well as a suite of payer-agnostic population health technology tools. Humana is consistently recognized as a top place to work in healthcare, especially in areas of Diversity and Inclusion.

Responsibilities

Humana's Corporate Strategy team is a small, high-performing group that works closely with Humana's senior leadership to chart the course for the company's future. In Strategy, you will identify and analyze exciting new growth opportunities and work with business leaders to prioritize strategic investments and execute strategic transformation. The Strategy team leads weekly meetings with Humana's CEO and management team and frequently deliver strategy updates to the Board of Directors. Day to day activities of the Post-MBA leader will include overseeing a team of analysts to pull together industry analysis, high level financial modeling, and qualitative analysis and synthesis of strategic options to create executive level deliverables and recommendations for Humana's senior leaders and Board.

As AVP, Corporate Strategy, you will provide strategic guidance and thought leadership to our most senior leaders through development of enterprise-wide strategic plans and objectives. In addition, you will lead a wide variety of cross-functional strategy projects related to Enterprise growth priorities, provide strategic support for M&A processes and external partnership opportunities, and present progress and recommendations to Humana's senior leadership and Board.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

Lead engagement with our board of directors and investor community on corporate strategy subject matter

Significant involvement in prioritization of enterprise-wide strategic investment funds

Deliver on a wide range of short term and long term strategic activities, including strategic projects, strategy execution, and business development/M&A activities

Work with Humana's leadership team to establish and communicate enterprise strategy

Lead cross-functional projects, working with the management team and business presidents

Convert strategy into business cases and projects while prioritizing timelines and ensuring consensus and execution

Manage external relationships with key business partners

Develop and refine key team operating systems and individual team members

Skills and Competencies

The successful candidate will be a dynamic leader who has worked in strategy development at a top tier strategy consulting firm or in a large corporation. He/she will have a demonstrated ability to influence peers and business leaders. This person must be comfortable with ambiguity and able to work collaboratively with key leaders to shape the priorities and agenda for the Corporate Strategy group.

He/she also will be effective at multi-tasking and possess keen change management skills. Additional skills and competencies include:

Leads Positively: Leads by example to cultivate a climate of motivation, positive energy and meaning in work. Empowers and guides associates to take personal responsibility, encouraging them to productively learn, flourish, and strengthen team capacity. Assesses, selects, recognizes, and develops diverse talent to capitalize on competencies, ideas and passions.

Acts Strategically: Sees how decisions can impact the whole of the organization and makes decisions using a broad knowledge of the long-term vision, values, risk acceptance and strategy of the organization. Uses an enterprise-wide perspective to translate strategies into actions, creating a clear view of the future state. Inspires others to embrace and advance the strategy as it evolves and is realized.

Customer Focus: Connects meaningfully with internal and external customers to build emotional engagement and customer advocacy. Develops and applies deep customer knowledge and intimacy to develop and deliver work that provides value beyond expectations. Simplifies complexity and integrates internal efforts to deliver an optimal customer experience

Accountability: Meets established expectations and takes responsibility for achieving results; encourages others to do the same. Employs focus, attention to detail, reliability, and appropriate prioritization to drive outcomes. Sees opportunities to contribute and takes the initiative to create solutions

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree

5 years prior experience at top tier consulting firm such as BCG, Bain, Deloitte, Accenture, or McKinsey with 2 plus years as Manager, Project lead, Engagement Manager or equivalent, prefer Senior Manager, Director, Associate Partner, or Associate Principal

Proven experience developing board-ready material and planning for strategic annual meetings for executives and BoD

Proven experience setting priorities and defining the future direction of a company (i.e. competitive analysis, strategy road map, strategic investment prioritization)

Strong business acumen and analytical skills with proven ability to apply foundational strategy principles to a variety of business problems

Proven experience working directly with and presenting to Executive level management

Passion for people development and demonstrated leadership success (both internally and externally)

Ability to identify, structure and solve business problems

Excellent interpersonal, organizational, written, and oral communication and presentation skills with proven experience writing and delivering presentations to members of the management team, CEO, and board of directors.

Demonstrated ability to interact with senior leadership internally and externally

We will require full COVID vaccination (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html#vaccinated) for this job as we are a healthcare company committed to putting health and safety first for our members, patients, associates and the communities we serve.

If progressed to offer, you will be required to provide proof of full vaccination or documentation for a medical or religious exemption consideration where allowed by law. Requests for these exemptions should be submitted at least 2 week prior to your scheduled first day of work.

Preferred Qualifications:

MBA or MD

5 year Post MBA consulting or Fortune 500 corporate strategy team

Experience working in healthcare industry, preferably payer or provider space

Note that the Corporate Strategy team is located at our headquarters in Louisville, KY. Relocation to Louisville or Washington D.C. is strongly preferred for this role.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Company info

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