Senior Strategy Advancement Professional

Humana

2d • $86,300 - $118,700 • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Strategy Advancement Professional provides data-driven strategic support to identify, evaluate, and resolve complex business challenges and opportunities. This role combines strategy, operations, business intelligence, project execution, and cross-functional partnership to help leaders make informed decisions aligned to enterprise priorities and consumer experience outcomes. The role requires strong business acumen, structured problem-solving, sound judgment, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity. The Senior Strategy Advancement Professional translates data, insights, and stakeholder input into clear recommendations, actionable plans, and measurable outcomes. The Senior Strategy Advancement Professional leads and supports strategic initiatives that improve business performance, operational effectiveness, and execution transparency. This role partners with sales, retail, finance, and both internal and external stakeholders to evaluate opportunities, interpret trends, develop strategic recommendations, and support execution from concept through implementation. This individual may support process improvement, initiative intake, prioritization, performance tracking, value measurement, and executive-level reporting. The role also helps identify opportunities to streamline work, improve reporting, automate manual processes, and strengthen project flow across initiatives.

Requirements

• Five or more years of relevant experience in strategy, operations, analytics, business planning, project management, consulting, transformation, technical delivery, or complex business problem-solving.
• Experience supporting strategic initiatives, business planning, project execution, operational improvement, or cross-functional workstreams.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to analyze information, identify trends, develop recommendations, and connect work to measurable business outcomes.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to advance business priorities and resolve complex issues.
• Ability to operate independently on moderately complex to complex assignments with minimal direction.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, track progress, maintain project flow, and meet deadlines.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to summarize complex information clearly.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree or higher in business, management, healthcare administration, or a related field.
• Three or more years of experience leading cross-functional teams or driving strategic, transformational, operational, portfolio, or project-based initiatives.
• Experience in healthcare, strategy, business planning, operations, transformation, portfolio management, project management, management consulting, or related functions.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including executive-level storytelling, business cases, strategic recommendations, presentation design, or decision-support materials.
• Familiarity with Agile, Lean Portfolio Management, enterprise portfolio management, initiative intake, prioritization, OKRs, value measurement, process improvement, automation, or workflow efficiency practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support strategic initiatives that address complex business problems, operational opportunities, and enterprise priorities.
• Analyze internal and external data to identify trends, develop insights, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Partner with analytics, finance, operations, technology, and business leaders to forecast, evaluate, and measure initiative impact.
• Support transformational initiatives by managing workstreams, project flow, milestones, risks, dependencies, documentation, and stakeholder communications.
• Prepare executive-level presentations, strategic narratives, business cases, status updates, and decision-support materials.
• Support initiative summaries, strategic alignment, MVP definition, risks, dependencies, forecasted value, and success measures.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to improve organizational effectiveness, execution discipline, business outcomes, and consumer experiences.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve reporting, automate manual work, and strengthen operational execution.
• Engage subject matter experts and business partners to support analysis, planning, issue resolution, and decision-making.
• Help ensure alignment between business activities, policies, procedures, operational priorities, and enterprise strategy.
• Influence departmental strategy through structured analysis, planning support, performance insights, and clear recommendations.
• Communicate clearly and confidently with leaders and stakeholders through written materials, presentations, and facilitated discussions.
• Operate as a collaborative team player while independently managing multiple priorities in an environment with ambiguity and shifting needs.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• 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: Senior