Strategy Advancement Advisor

Humana Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off and holidays

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks a Strategy Advancement Advisor to support consumer segment strategies, drive growth, retention, and improved member outcomes. You will collaborate with teams to frame questions, analyze data, and recommend pilots across product, marketing, and sales cycles.

You will lead analyses, build executive-ready presentations, and push innovative pilots while navigating a large, matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-time strategic work experience, ideally post-MBA.
• Strategy experience in healthcare or management consulting.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management; able to influence senior leaders.
• Experience leading complex, strategic initiatives in a large matrixed organization.
• Superior problem-solving and data analysis to derive insights.
• Experience leveraging consumer insights to design new solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with executive presentations.
• Highly collaborative, adaptable and able to lead through ambiguity.
• MBA, MPH, or other graduate degree preferred.
• Prior healthcare industry experience, especially managed care.

Responsibilities

• Serve as strategic and operational product manager for projects and pilots.
• Conduct industry/market analysis to inform growth and product strategy.
• Create and own executive-level presentations and updates.
• Explore innovative pilots and deepen insights with quantitative/qualitative research.
• Develop portfolio/plan level performance analysis for leaders.

Skills

Strategic thinker

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Analytical skills

Executive communication

Collaboration

Adaptability

Education

MBA / MPH preferred

Job description

Become a part of our caring community

Humana is a publicly traded, Fortune 100 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 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.

Consumer Segment Team

Identifying and delivering new avenues of growth is a critical company priority. The Consumer Segment team is an entrepreneurial, multi-functional team within Humana’s Enterprise Growth unit. The team is focused on driving industry leading membership growth, retention, and health outcomes by identifying new consumer insights, developing growth strategies, and activating them across the enterprise to serve the unique needs of prioritized segments.

Humana is seeking an experienced team member with meaningful strategy consulting or healthcare strategy experience to join this team. As a Strategy Advancement Advisor, you will support the development and implementation of consumer segment strategies that drive growth and retention while optimizing member experience and outcomes. You’ll collaborate with teammates and cross-functional partners to frame up business questions, conduct analyses, and recommend solutions. You will help answer key strategic business questions that arise during the annual product/sales cycle across multiple domains, including product design, plan footprint, marketing and sales performance, membership analytics, customer/provider satisfaction and more. You will proactively identify new consumer insights and create business cases to support new pilots and initiatives to address critical unmet consumer needs.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Serving as a strategic and operational product manager for one or more projects, consumer segments, and/or innovative pilot, including but not limited to managing analyses and/or workstreams, such as Marketing, Sales, Digital and other go-to-market efforts
• Conducting industry/market analysis related to growth and competition, turning analyses into meaningful insights that will inform growth and product strategy
• Creating and owning the development of executive-level presentations and communications, including key deliverable updates and escalations.
• Being consumer obsessed through exploration of innovative new pilots, deepening insights through quantitative and qualitative consumer research, and simplifying/enhancing consumer and agent experiences
• Developing MA product framework that provides leaders with portfolio/plan level performance analysis

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-time relevant strategic work experience, ideally post-MBA
• Previous strategy experience in a healthcare or management consulting organization
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management, including the ability to build trust and credibility with senior business leaders and influence decision‑making across the enterprise
• Experience leading complex, strategic initiatives in a large matrixed organization
• Superior problem-solving skills and the ability to perform complex qualitative and quantitative analyses to drive actionable insights
• Experience leveraging consumer insights to design and implement new products/services/solutions
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with demonstrated experience developing and delivering engaging and informative presentations at an executive level
• Highly collaborative, adaptable, and able to lead through ambiguity in a dynamic environment

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, MPH, or other graduate degree
• Prior healthcare industry experience, preferably in the managed care of provider sector

Work at Home Requirements

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Travel

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

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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.

Description of Benefits

• 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
• 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 atHumana.comand atCenterWell.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. 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.