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Principal, Stars Enterprise Activation

Humana
Waterside Bldg, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Aug 2025
💰 $191,000/yr($138,900/yr$191,000/yr)

About the role

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first
 

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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