Principal Cybersecurity Strategist

## Principal Cybersecurity Strategist Apply locations:
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Posted Yesterday job requisition :
R-417279#
** Become a part of our caring community** (Selected candidate will be required to live within 60 mins of one of the following metro locations OR be willing to relocate to within 12 months of hire date:
Louisville KY, NYC Metro, Dallas Metro, Charlotte NC Metro, Tampa, Miami, Washington DC metro, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Nashville)  The Principal Cybersecurity Strategist serves as the enterprise thought leader and primary architect of the EIP Cybersecurity Strategy. This role is accountable for shaping, evolving, and governing a multi‐year cybersecurity strategy that enables business priorities, strengthens enterprise resilience, and advances security maturity across Humana.

Operating as a senior advisor to executive leadership, this role translates business objectives, risk posture, regulatory expectations, and emerging technology trends into a coherent, prioritized, and achievable cybersecurity roadmap. The Principal Cybersecurity Strategist partners closely with EIP leaders, technology teams, and business stakeholders to drive execution, investment decisions, and measurable outcomes.
** Key Responsibilities
*** Strategic Leadership:
Define, develop, and continually advance EIP's long-term cybersecurity strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate goals and evolving risk landscapes. Set direction for capability development, maturity roadmaps, and investment priorities over a three-year horizon.
* Board Engagement:
Develop and present executive and board-level materials, articulating cybersecurity vision, strategic priorities, maturity metrics, and progress against objectives. Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership and board stakeholders.
* Healthcare & Financial Services Expertise:
Leverage deep experience in healthcare and/or financial services to inform strategy and ensure compliance with sector-specific regulatory frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX).
* AI Security & Implementation:
Lead the strategic integration of AI into cybersecurity operations, ensuring secure adoption, risk mitigation, and compliance. Advise on AI security trends, regulatory implications, and best practices for responsible implementation.
* Program Maturity & Capability Growth:
Architect and execute initiatives to advance cybersecurity program maturity, talent development, and operational excellence. Establish frameworks for continuous assessment, capability benchmarking, and value creation.
* Investment Prioritization:
Direct the allocation of resources and investment in cybersecurity capabilities, controls, and technologies based on risk, business value, and strategic impact.
* Organizational Change Management:
Drive a security-centric culture through enterprise change management strategies, maximizing adoption of strategic priorities and minimizing resistance across a matrixed organization.
* Consultative Leadership:
Provide consultative expertise to EIP department leaders, project teams, and cross-functional partners to ensure strategic alignment and integration of cybersecurity priorities at every stage of project and program life cycles.
* ** Core Competencies**  + Strategic Vision & Influence  + Information Security Management  + Organizational Change Leadership  + Business Intelligence & Data Analysis  + Security Risk Management  + Executive Communication  + Problem Solving  + Leadership in Complex, Matrixed Environments#
** Use your skills to make an impact
**** Required Qualification
*** Bachelor's degree or higher in cybersecurity, information technology, business, economics, organizational management, or related field.
* Significant cybersecurity strategy experience, including enterprise‐level planning and transformation.
* Demonstrated success in developing and presenting cybersecurity strategies at the board/executive level.
* Significant experience advancing cybersecurity maturity and capabilities in healthcare and/or financial services environments.
* Proven expertise in AI security and the…