Growth Strategy Principal

Humana • New York, NY

7d • $166,700 - $229,200 • Remote

About The Position

Humana’s newly created Enterprise Growth Strategy team supports growth across the company’s businesses, with a strong partnership with the Medicare and Medicaid organization. The team works with senior business-unit and enterprise leaders on high-profile strategy projects that address important opportunities and challenges.

The Growth Strategy Principal supports priority projects and initiatives, with an emphasis on Medicare Advantage strategy development and strategic integration across the Growth organization. The Principal leads small teams to investigate issues, conduct targeted research and analysis, develop logical recommendations, and shape implementation considerations. The role works with business owners to transition analysis into execution and collaborates with team members, subject matter experts, executive management, and corporate, functional, and business-unit leaders. The position helps synthesize strategic choices into a coherent plan to drive growth and profitability while improving members’ health and lives. Success requires facilitating critical meetings, building consensus across diverse groups, and leading through influence.

The position offers flexibility in work location: Humana’s New York office, its Louisville headquarters, or remote work conducted primarily on Eastern time. Remote work may require occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings. Home or hybrid employees must have an internet connection with at least 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload speeds and a dedicated workspace that protects member PHI/HIPAA information. Scheduled hours are 40 per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with outstanding academic credentials.
• 6–8+ years of full-time work experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate or business-unit strategy, or finance, including a strong record of leadership.
• Strong problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to perform complex quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Ability to quickly build and maintain trust with business leaders.
• Highly collaborative, flexible, and teamwork-oriented working style.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop junior staff.
• Strong commitment to personal and professional growth.

Nice To Haves

• MBA, MPH, PhD, or a graduate degree in a management field.
• Managed care and/or healthcare services work experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple high-profile, high-impact strategy projects.
• Lead interviews and working sessions with leaders in Enterprise Growth and across the organization.
• Lead teams conducting industry, market, competitor, and financial analysis, and distill insights for Humana.
• Create high-quality analysis and deliverables that frame objectives, issues, and challenges and communicate findings and recommendations.
• Work collaboratively with fellow team members and leaders across the company.
• Lead small teams in analyzing issues, developing recommendations, and shaping implementation considerations.
• Work with business owners, as appropriate, to transition analysis into execution.
• Facilitate critical meetings, drive diverse groups to consensus, and lead through influence.
• Synthesize strategic choices across the organization into a coherent plan for growth and profitability while supporting improved member health.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Time off, including paid time off, company and personal holidays, and paid parental and caregiver leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Life insurance.
• Bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance.
• Other opportunities supporting whole-person well-being.

What This Job Offers

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