Remote Senior Innovation Portfolio Strategist - Medicare

Humana, Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 139,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana, Inc. seeks an Innovation Portfolio Strategy Principal to lead the clinical and population health sub-portfolio, guiding cross-functional teams and senior executives. The role emphasizes strategy, market insight, and evidence-based decision making in a remote US context.

The position requires a decade of experience in digital/population health, leadership, and stakeholder management, with a strong emphasis on Medicare. Travel to Humana offices may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, public health, or related field.
• 10+ years of technical experience, clinical strategy, consulting, or innovation with a focus on digital and/or population health products.
• 2-3 years of leadership/project management experience.
• 3+ years of health care experience focused on Medicare populations.
• Experience and understanding of healthcare data and analytics, contemporary technologies, managed care administrative functions and care delivery models.
• Experience managing stakeholder relationships including executive and management of audiences, and external vendors.
• Quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, with experience identifying trends and actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the development of the clinical and population health sub-portfolio of solutions; specifically leading development of high-profile and high-impact solutions.
• Deftly sits in the center of strategy, design, engineering, clinical, and operations and collaborates with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment with business partners and member needs.
• Effectively leads and develops junior members of the team – both as a direct manager and as a leader within our cross-functional solution development teams.
• Translates front end Ideation and Discovery work into actionable strategic direction and project plans that lead innovative solutions through design, development, and pilot launch.
• Leverages a consistent and data-based framework for making buy/build/partner decisions when scoping solutions and when applicable, successfully partners and co-develop with external digital health companies to launch a product or program.
• Defines Key Performance Indicators and path to incremental value and continuous optimization. Works with relevant partners to develop plans for data ingestion and optimization to ensure solutions meet customer needs across each customer segmentation, informing scaling decisions and solution enhancements to achieve the desired outcomes.
• Develops and executes successful Go to Market approach – integrating expertise from both national and market leadership teams.
• Advises team on utilization of product management processes and tools such as human centered design thinking, user research and concept testing, business case development, and product blueprints; and demonstrates best practices in action.
• Successfully applies advanced quantitative and qualitative research and analytical skills.
• Develop and deliver high-quality deliverables and recommendations for senior executives that connect the clinical and population health sub-portfolio to overall Medicare segment business and growth objectives.
• Champions a startup mindset and adoption of agile ways of working across the Medicare segment to design, develop and deliver differentiated experiences for our customers.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Healthcare analytics

Stakeholder management

Qualitative & quantitative analysis

Complex topic translation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, public health, or related field

Master's degree in business, public health, or related field

Job description

Humana, Inc. seeks an Innovation Portfolio Strategy Principal to lead the clinical and population health sub-portfolio, guiding cross-functional teams and senior executives. The role emphasizes strategy, market insight, and evidence-based decision making in a remote US context.

The position requires a decade of experience in digital/population health, leadership, and stakeholder management, with a strong emphasis on Medicare. Travel to Humana offices may be required.