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Humana, a Fortune 50 Healthcare Company
Humana is a publicly traded, Fortune 50 healthcare company with a long history of successful innovation and reinvention. It has transformed itself from the largest US nursing home company in the 60’s, to the largest US hospital corporation in the 80’s, to a leading health benefits company beginning in the 90’s. Today, Humana is a leader in consumer-focused health solutions and is one of the largest health benefits organizations in the country.

Role Overview
The Healthcare Strategy team supports Humana’s Medicare and Medicaid business unit. This business unit, Humana’s largest, 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 Humana’s largest businesses.

Location: remote

Humana is seeking an experienced team member with meaningful strategy consulting experience to manage and deliver some of Medicare and Medicaid’s highest priority projects.  As a Principal, you will lead team members during projects as you deconstruct issues and challenges, perform targeted research and analysis, and craft sound, logical solutions and recommendations.  You will also shape implementation considerations, and work with business owners as appropriate to transition analysis into execution.  While doing so, you will 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 deep diving into key areas, you will also have a bird’s-eye view of the business unit’s overall strategy. Your role be instrumental in synthesizing the strategic choices being made across the business unit into coherent plans to drive growth and profitability, while simultaneously improving the lives and health of Humana’s members. As such, the ability to facilitate senior level meetings, drive diverse groups to consensus, and lead through influence will be essential to success in this role.     

Recent example projects include development of a 3-year growth strategy for the business unit, developing a refreshed membership acquisition strategy, identifying key go-to-market priorities, assessing the performance of strategic initiatives and business areas, evolving key facets of the Medicare Advantage growth strategy, and identifying improvement opportunities for a key business function. 

Key responsibilities include:

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

• Managing and delivering high-profile, high-impact strategy projects end-to-end, from developing an approach to delivering recommendations and final deliverables

• Developing high quality, insightful, and clear analysis and deliverables for Humana’s executive management team and Board of Directors

• Overseeing development of hypothesis to be validated or refined through targeted research and analysis

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

• Overseeing industry, market, competitor, and financial analysis

• Working collaboratively with fellow team members and leaders across the company

• Effectively leading and developing junior members of the team

• Leading critical processes to prepare leadership for interactions with Humana’s executive Management Team and Board of Directors  

• Being a steward of the strategy team’s operating model, norms and ways of working

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• 2-3 years or more of full-time strategy consulting experience with a leading management consulting firm; 5-7 years or more of total work experience requiring core consulting related skills/capabilities

• Demonstrated ability to manage large, substantive components of strategy consulting engagements

• 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

• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop junior staff

• Ability to quickly build