Healthcare Strategy Advisor

Responsibilities

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.

Humana is seeking an experienced team member with meaningful management consulting experience to support delivering some of Medicare and Medicaid’s highest priority projects and initiatives, with an emphasis on Medicare Advantage strategy development. As an Advisor, you will 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 meetings, drive diverse groups to consensus, and influence key stakeholders will be essential to success in this role.

Recent example projects include assessing the performance of strategic initiatives and business areas, evolving key facets of the Medicare Advantage growth strategy, leading the development of the annual Medicare Advantage strategic plan, and refreshing the strategy for Humana’s sales organization.

Key Responsibilities Include:

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

• Managing and delivering workstreams within high-profile, high-impact strategy projects end-to-end, from developing an approach to delivering recommendations and final deliverables; independently managing end-to-end smaller scale strategy projects and/or initiatives

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

• Developing hypothesis to be validated or refined through targeted research and analysis

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

• Conducting 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

• Defining and developing opportunities for strategic alignment and consistent reporting across the business segment

• Designing and monitoring key metrics and reporting cadence across the organization

• Working across operational units to execute strategic planning process and quarterly refinement

Role Essentials

• Bachelor’s Degree with outstanding academic credentials

• 2 years of full-time work experience with a leading management consulting firm, coupled with 2-3 years of additional full-time work experience in a role requiring core strategy consulting skills/capabilities

• Demonstrated ability to manage meaningful work streams within 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 and maintain trust with business leaders

• Demonstrated ability working within a matrixed environment and managing senior stakeholders

Role Desirables

• MBA, MPH, PhD, or graduate degree in a management field

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

Work-At-Home Requirements

• Must have the ability to provide a high speed DSL or cable modem for a home office. Associates or contractors who live and work from home in the state of California will be provided payment for their internet expense.

• A minimum standard speed for optimal performance of 25x10 (25mpbs download x 10mpbs upload) is required.

• Satellite and Wireless Internet service is NOT allowed for this role.

• A dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information

Scheduled Weekly Hours