Principal, Stars Enterprise Activation
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The Stars Enterprise Activation Principal develops, implements, and manages oversight of the company's Medicare/Medicaid Stars Program. Directs all Stars quality improvement programs and initiatives. The Stars Improvement Principal provides strategic advice and guidance to functional team(s). Highly skilled with broad, advanced technical experience.This role will support the Stars strategy across Humana to serve as a subject matter expert for Stars to activate and integrate initiatives across all assets. You will drive the vision, roadmap, and delivery for Stars improvement across Humana. In this role, you will identify and engage with each Humana function that has Stars-related initiatives to understand the business strategy, scope, and goals, building a working knowledge to inform identification and validation of potential synergies, business-specific requirements, risks, and integration paths. This role will collaborate with key Stars and segment business partners to monitor existing work, gain alignment on cross-asset integration opportunities, identify and implement new initiatives, and measure the value of the work. In addition, this role will support the inventory of existing Stars initiatives and help to identify gaps and opportunities for greater collaboration across segments.
Role Responsibilities:
Acquire deep understanding of Humana business and develop collaborative partnerships across all assets
Lead multiple analytics partners to derive meaningful insights informing prioritized opportunities for Stars improvement
Develop and accelerate cross- functional strategy and effectively communicate the strategy to the key stakeholders to create alignment, inspire action and deliver tangible results
Develop and maintain a portfolio of improvement work, including new programs, optimization of existing programs, and identification of future services needed
Conduct test and learn initiatives to prove capabilities and determine effectiveness of solutions
Responsible for performance monitoring and development of reporting, with regular report out to executive leadership
Oversight of related budget, vendor relationships, and program/ project management
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree
8-9 + years of quality improvement and/or developing and advancing enterprise strategy
Medicare Advantage experience
CMS Stars program experience
Previous leadership experience as a people leader, leading through influence, or leading complex projects with engagement from multiple areas of the company
Demonstrated track record of ability to tell the story, influence leaders and drive improvement activity in a matrixed organization
Ability to accelerate work and operate under tight deadlines
Comprehensive knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as ability to navigate business intelligence tools to review data insights
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s Degree
Additional 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
As part of our hiring process for this opportunity, we will be using an interviewing technology called HireVue to enhance our hiring and decision-making ability. HireVue allows us to quickly connect and gain valuable information from you pertaining to your relevant skills and experience at a time that is best for your schedule.
Humana values personal identity protection. Please be aware that applicants may be asked to provide their Social Security Number, if it is not already on
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