Corporate Strategy Lead

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Humana's Corporate Strategy team is a small, high-performing group that works closely with senior leadership to establish the future course for the company. In Corporate Strategy, you will identify and analyze growth opportunities and work with business leaders to prioritize options and set the long-term strategy agenda. The team has frequent interactions with Humana's CEO and regularly manages deliverables for Humana's broader Executive Leadership Team and Board of Directors. Our team also undertakes internal consulting engagements across a wide range of topics.

The Corporate Strategy Lead plays a critical role in the successful delivery of projects, owning responsibility for one or more simultaneously and managing workstreams of junior colleagues. Leads are required to manage the scope of work, understand the needs of stakeholders within Corporate Strategy and elsewhere in Humana, and ensure high-quality results that bring out the best thinking of the team. Examples of project work include identifying and evaluating growth opportunities across our lines of business, developing market and competitive strategies, assessing partnership and acquisition opportunities, designing operating model / organizational improvements, and supporting pilots / innovation opportunities for various business leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategic analyses and recommendations on high-priority enterprise initiatives.
• Facilitate discussions with business leaders to identify opportunities and address strategic challenges.
• Develop business cases to support investment decisions and growth initiatives.
• Translate strategic recommendations into actionable implementation plans.
• Mentor analysts and provide guidance on project execution and analytical approaches.
• Collaborate with Corporate Strategy colleagues, and contribute to a high-performing, inclusive, and supportive team environment

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of consulting, strategy, or relevant corporate experience (i.e., strategic in nature vs. primarily operational)
• Analytical skills (ex: quantitative analysis and research, financial modeling)
• Conceptual skills (ex: translating ambiguous problem statements into structured frameworks, generating hypotheses independently and testing them, synthesizing complex information into digestible executive insights, managing cross-functional stakeholders)

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate from a top-tier master's program in business, health administration, or related field
• Meaningful experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or investment banking / corporate development
• Relevant healthcare experience, especially in payer industry

Location: Working locations are primarily Louisville, KY, and Arlington, VA (Washington, DC metro area); also open to candidates living in or willing to relocate to Chicago or Nashville. The Strategy team operates on a hybrid schedule with an expectation of 2 to 3 in-office days per week. Relocation assistance available.

Travel: Occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Pay Range: $138,900 - $191,100 per year. This 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, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About Us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our 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 and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer: It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements.