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The Growth Strategy Program Management Consultant provides data-based strategic direction to identify and address business issues and opportunities. Provides business intelligence and strategic planning support for business segments or the company at large. The Growth Strategy Program Management Consultant work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

Role Overview

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 the delivery of Enterprise Growth's highest priority projects and lead critical processes to prepare Growth leadership for interactions with Humana's Executive Management Team and Board of Directors. As a Program Management Consultant, you will be at the forefront of crafting compelling narratives that crisply communicate the Growth team's priorities and highlight the most salient aspects of the team's strategy. In addition, you will play a central role in prioritizing strategic initiatives and tracking the Growth team's performance against its stated strategic objectives, while partnering with Growth leaders to ensure risks to the strategy are identified and mitigated as they arise.

Your project work will be focused on deconstructing issues and challenges, and crafting sound, logical solutions and recommendations. In this highly cross-functional, high visibility role, you'll 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 diving in deep in some areas, you will also have a bird's-eye view of the Growth team's overall strategy.

Recent projects include assessing the performance of strategic initiatives and business areas, refreshing the Medicare Advantage growth strategy, and identifying improvement opportunities for a key business function.

Use your skills to make an impact

Key responsibilities include:

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

• Overseeing the prioritization of the Growth team's strategy-related workstreams and working with key business partners to drive the resulting insights through to execution

• Providing high impact project management support on Medicare growth planning including key associated cross-functional coordination within Enterprise Growth and across the enterprise

• Supporting the development of executive-ready deliverables that succinctly describe the Growth team's operating environment and resulting priorities

• Helping to develop the process and infrastructure to monitor Growth's progress against its strategic objectives and identify areas of risk requiring mitigation

• Being the steward of the Growth team's operating model, norms and ways of working

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

• Conducting interviews, working sessions, and report-outs with leaders across the company

• Conducting industry, market, competitor, and financial analysis

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with outstanding academic credentials

• 2+ years of full-time work experience with a management consulting firm or similar background

• Demonstrated project management capabilities including managing work streams and analysis

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

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 Information

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 recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested

• Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership

• Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.

• Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.

• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information

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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.$93,000 - $128,000 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, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

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.

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