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The Strategy Advancement Advisor provides data-based strategic direction to identify and address business issues and opportunities. Provides business intelligence and strategic planning support for business segments or the company at large. The Strategy Advancement Advisor works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.

Humana, A Fortune 50 Healthcare Company

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

Role Overview: Growth Strategy Advisor

The Growth Strategy team plays a key role in supporting growth across Humana’s businesses. The team has a strong dotted-line partnership with the Medicare and Medicaid organization, Humana’s largest, which 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 the organization.

Humana is seeking an experienced team member with meaningful strategy consulting or healthcare strategy experience to join this team. As a Growth Strategy Advisor, you will directly contribute to high-impact strategy projects, engage with executive leadership, and develop actionable recommendations that shape Humana’s long-term direction. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where your insights will help inform Board-level discussions and enterprise-wide strategic priorities.

The team's portfolio of work has a particular emphasis on sustainable Medicare Advantage growth. 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.

Recent projects include assessing the performance of strategic initiatives and business areas, refreshing the Medicare Advantage growth strategy, and identifying improvement opportunities for a key business function.

Key responsibilities include:

Managing analysis and/or work streams within high-profile, high-impact strategy projects
Leading interviews and working sessions with leaders within Enterprise Growth and across the broader organization
Conducting industry, market, competitor, and financial analysis and identifying insights for Humana
Creating high quality analysis and deliverables that clearly frame objectives, issues, and challenges, and articulate insightful findings and recommendations
Working collaboratively with fellow team members and leaders across the company

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree with outstanding academic credentials
2+ years of full-time work experience with a leading management consulting firm and/or strategy consulting related experience outside of a consulting firm, coupled with 2-3+ years of additional full-time work experience in a role requiring core strategy consulting skills/capabilities
Strong problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to perform complex quantitative and qualitative analyses
Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
Ability to quickly build and maintain trust with business leaders
Experience managing significant workstreams or independent projects
Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop junior staff
Strong commitment to personal and professional growth

Preferred Qualifications

MBA, MPH, PhD, or graduate degree in a management field
Managed care and/or healthcare services work experience
Experience leading strategy projects from concept to execution

Additional Information

This is a remote role, but majority of work must be conducted on Eastern time. Occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$138,200 - $190,100 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, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About Us

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and 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, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

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. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.