Associate VP Corporate Strategy

Job Information
Humana
Associate VP, Corporate Strategy
in
Boston
Massachusetts
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 requirefull COVID vaccination (**** for this job as we are ahealthcarecompany committed to putting health and safety first for our members, patients, associates and the communities we serve.
For this job, associates are required to be fully COVID vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID testing and wear a face covering while at work. The weekly testing will need to be done through an approved Humana vendor, and unvaccinated associates should follow all social distancing and masking protocols if they are required to come into a Humana facility or work outside of their home. We are ahealthcarecompany 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 vaccinationor commit to testing protocols OR
Provide proof of applicable exemption including any required supporting documentation
Medical, religious, state and remote-only work exemptions are available.
Location:
Must reside in Louisville KY, Washington DC or Boston, MA or be willing to relocate. Relocation will be provided.
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