Growth Strategy Manager

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Humana is a publicly traded, Fortune 60 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 ’60s, to the largest US hospital corporation in the ’80s, to a leading health benefits company beginning in the ’90s.  Today, Humana is a leader in consumer-focused health solutions and is one of the largest health benefits organizations in the country.

The Enterprise Growth Strategy team is a newly created organization supporting growth across Humana’s businesses. The team has a strong dotted-line partnership with the Medicare and Medicaid organization, Humana’s largest, which comprises over 80% of the company’s total revenue and the majority of its earnings. Team members partner with the senior leaders of the business unit, and more broadly with leaders throughout the enterprise, as they deliver strategy projects addressing some of the businesses’ most important opportunities and challenges.

These high-profile strategy projects place the team at the forefront of helping to define the future of Humana’s largest businesses. Humana is seeking an experienced team member to support delivering some of Medicare and Medicaid’s highest priority projects and initiatives, with an emphasis on Medicare Advantage strategy development. As a Manager, you will deconstruct issues and challenges, perform targeted research and analysis, and craft sound, logical solutions and recommendations.  

You will also shape implementation considerations, and work with business owners as appropriate to transition analysis into execution.  While doing so, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow team members, subject matter experts, members of Humana’s executive Management Team, and corporate, functional, and business unit leaders.  This role will have a particular focus on Medicare enrollment growth strategy and investment optimization.

The Strategy Manager will help develop a framework that takes into account key dimensions of growth strategy such as marketing as well as sales and product investment trade-offs that are responsive to local competitive and provider dynamics. The Strategy Manager will be responsible for driving the development of deep consumer and competitor insights to inform key strategic choices that support sustainable enterprise growth.

Key responsibilities include:

Managing analysis and/or work streams within high-profile, high-impact strategy projects

Leading interviews and working sessions with leaders within Medicare and Medicaid and across the broader organization

Conducting industry, market, competitor, and financial analysis and identifying insights for Humana Creating high quality analysis and deliverables that clearly frame objectives, issues, and challenges, and articulate insightful findings and recommendations

Working collaboratively with fellow team members and leaders across the company

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree with outstanding academic credentials4-6+ years of full-time work experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate/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, teamwork-oriented working style

Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop junior staff

Strong commitment to personal and professional growth

Preferred Qualifications MBA, MPH, PhD, or graduate degree in a management field

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