Associate VP, Technology Portfolio Management

Humana • Louisville, IL

5d • $208,500 - $286,700 • Remote

About The Position

The Assistant Vice President, Data & Analytics Portfolio Management will lead the technology discipline that connects Data & Analytics strategy, portfolio priorities, product management, funding decisions, and execution. This leader will ensure the D&A organization has clear priorities, transparent trade-offs, disciplined investment governance, and an operating and execution cadence that aligns resources to the highest-value work. This AVP of D&A Portfolio Management will own the enterprise Data & Analytics Portfolio, Product Management, Planning, and Operating Management function for the CDAO organization, including the management system that connects strategy, demand, funding, execution, product roadmaps, operating metrics, and executive decision-making. Success requires direct accountability for D&A planning and operating discipline, senior-level influence across Technology, Finance, Procurement, the COO organization, Enterprise AI, HR, and business stakeholders, and the ability to drive cross-functional decisions that improve focus, execution, financial discipline, and business value realization. This role will report to the SVP, Chief Data and Analytics Officer and be a critical partner to the broader Data & Analytics organization, responsible for aligning portfolio priorities, product management practices, operating discipline, and cross-functional execution across D&A. To deliver on D&A’s strategic portfolio, improve operating effectiveness, modernize the data and analytics ecosystem, strengthen governance and security practices, advance organizational maturity, and build a differentiated talent base, this role will provide direct oversight of the following shared services across the D&A organization: Data & Analytics Portfolio Management Lean Business Case Analysis and Development Financial Management in partnership with Tech Finance Vendor Communications and Change Management Op Model Support including Talent Strategy and Management This role owns the enterprise management system for the Data & Analytics organization, including portfolio prioritization, product management standards, business case discipline, funding alignment, operating metrics, vendor coordination, and operating model activation. The role leads an organization of Directors, Portfolio Leads and Product Managers responsible for translating D&A strategy into executable priorities, governed investment decisions, measurable product outcomes, and scalable operating practices across the enterprise.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 8 or more years of technical experience
• 5 or more years of management experience
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines with attention to detail
• Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations to senior leaders
• Advanced experience leading special projects and producing metrics, measurements and trend reports
• Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences

Nice To Haves

• MBA or other Advanced Degree
• Possess a solid understanding of data and analytics operations, product management, portfolio management, communications, and operating processes.
• Six Sigma certification
• PMP certification
• Demonstrated ability to run large scale, highly visible programs with responsibility for multiple project teams

Responsibilities

• Own the Data & Analytics portfolio management discipline across intake, prioritization, sequencing, funding alignment, investment governance, delivery visibility, and executive decision support.
• Establish a transparent portfolio framework that connects D&A strategy to execution, clarifies trade-offs, and aligns resources to the highest-value enterprise priorities.
• Partner with Enterprise portfolio teams and the office of the Tech COO.
• Lead the Data & Analytics product management function and own the D&A product management op model; ensuring data and analytics products are clearly defined, governed, prioritized, funded, and measured by adoption, reuse, business value, delivery progress, and operational health.
• Establish product management standards, role clarity, roadmap discipline, lifecycle management practices, and outcome-based metrics across D&A products and shared capabilities.
• Coach and enable D&A leaders and product owners to apply consistent product management discipline across data products, analytics capabilities, shared services, modernization efforts, and enterprise platforms.
• Ensure product practices are practical, scalable, and tied to measurable enterprise outcomes.
• Lead development of lean business cases, proformas, value narratives, funding recommendations, and investment decision materials for major D&A initiatives.
• Ensure proposed work is supported by a clear value hypothesis, measurable business outcomes, defined ownership, delivery readiness, dependency visibility, and financial implications.
• Partner with business, technology, finance, and procurement stakeholders to evaluate initiative value, affordability, delivery risk, strategic alignment, and expected return.
• Improve the quality and consistency of business case development so D&A investments can be compared, prioritized, and governed using a common fact base.
• Own partnership with Technology Finance to strengthen budget planning, forecasting, investment tracking, vendor spend discipline, productivity measurement, and financial governance across the D&A portfolio.
• Ensure financial plans align to portfolio priorities, delivery commitments, enterprise funding cycles, and evolving business needs.
• Help create transparency into planned versus actual spend, funding gaps, resource constraints, vendor commitments, benefits realization, and financial risks.
• Support senior leadership in making informed trade-off decisions when portfolio demand exceeds available capacity or funding.
• Lead development of a long-term vendor management strategy that optimizes D&A cost structure and reduces dependency on vendor partners.
• Partner with the Vendor Management Office in the COO organization to support vendor communications, executive updates, portfolio narratives, stakeholder messaging, and change management plans that make priorities, decisions, progress, trade-offs, and organizational implications clear.
• Ensure vendor-related D&A strategy advancement is communicated in a way that supports alignment, adoption, accountability, and sustained execution.
• Support communication and change plans for major vendor engagements, D&A operating model shifts, product management practices, portfolio governance changes, and new ways of working.
• Ensure changes are sequenced thoughtfully, communicated clearly, and supported with the right stakeholder engagement, leadership alignment, training, and adoption metrics.
• Co-own the D&A operating model activation plan with the Transformation Office including decision rights, role accountability, service expectations, intake processes, escalation paths, governance routines, and operating metrics across D&A, Segment Technology, Enterprise AI, Finance, Procurement, and business partners.
• Help ensure the operating model is practical, scalable, and connected to how work is prioritized, funded, delivered, and measured.
• Support workforce planning, role design, capability development, resourcing analysis, and talent strategy for portfolio management, product management, planning, operations, and change management capabilities within D&A.
• Help build the operating discipline and talent practices needed to support a more mature D&A organization, including clearer career paths, scalable ways of working, common standards, and a stronger shared D&A community.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager