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We are seeking a highly skilled Program Investment and Strategy Principal to oversee the portfolio for our Medicaid segment. In this pivotal role, you will lead the development and execution of the portfolio strategy. Your advanced financial acumen will be essential in driving impactful decisions and outcomes. As a dedicated professional, you will have the opportunity to make a significant difference in the healthcare landscape.

The Program Investment and Strategy Principal ensures rigorous financial modeling to enable proper investment of MCD funds to drive differentiated and scaled business value. Once value is released and products are launched, the Program Investment and Strategy Principal monitors efficacy of products and uses customer and business partner feedback to ensure products are meeting customer needs, adjusting products over time to continue to achieve the desired outcomes and greater value maximization. Works with senior executives to develop and drive segment or enterprise-wide functional strategies. Advises one or more areas, programs or functions and provides recommendations to senior executives on matters of significance, and as an advanced subject matter expert competent to work at very high levels in multiple knowledge and functional areas across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities include:

Portfolio Planning & Strategy

• Lead the development and execution of the Medicaid portfolio strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and growth priorities.
• Partner with business leaders to identify, prioritize, and sequence strategic initiatives, balancing risk, cost, and value.
• Drive portfolio planning processes, ensuring a structured approach to intake, evaluation, and approval of initiatives.

Governance & Oversight

• Establish and maintain portfolio governance frameworks, ensuring transparency, accountability, and decision-making discipline.
• Monitor portfolio performance, providing regular reporting and insights to senior leadership on progress, risks, and dependencies.
• Define and enforce standardized processes, tools, and metrics for consistent execution and measurement of initiatives.

Financial & Budget Management

• Oversee the portfolio budget, ensuring responsible allocation and management of financial resources.
• Drive financial tracking and forecasting, ensuring investments align with expected outcomes and ROI targets.
• Identify opportunities to optimize spend and improve cost efficiency across the portfolio.

Use your skills to make an impact

​Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Healthcare Administration and/or related field
• 5 or more years of professional experience working within managed care
• 3 or more years of technical experience
• Reside in the Eastern Time Zone
• Experience taking complex data and making it more accessible, understandable and usable for leaders to derive insights
• Flexible, dynamic personality who works well in a team environment and can lead initiatives
• Excellent communicator in written and verbal form
• Experienced in strong relationship building and influencing
• Experience planning and leading strategic initiatives in matrixed environment
• Self-Starter with the ability to work independently and drive initiatives forward

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business Administration or Healthcare Administration
• Operations Experience

Additional Information

• Workstyle: Hybrid Home - This is a hybrid home position where employees primarily work from their home office, occasionally using company office space for collaboration and face-to-face needs.
• Location: Work from home in the Eastern Time Zone
• Typical Work Days/Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm EST.
• Travel: 10-20%

WAH Internet Statement

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:

• At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.
• Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.
• Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
• Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Benefits

Humana offers a variety of benefits to promote the best health and well-being of our employees and their families. We design competitive and flexible packages to give our employees a sense of financial security—both today and in the future, including:

• Health benefits effective day 1
• Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time and jury duty pay
• Recognition pay
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Tuition assistance
• Scholarships for eligible dependents
• Parental and caregiver leave
• Employee charity matching program
• Network Resource Groups (NRGs)
• Career development opportunities

HireView

As part of our hiring process for this opportunity, we will be using an interviewing technology called HireVue to enhance our hiring and decision-making ability. HireVue allows us to quickly connect and gain valuable information from you pertaining to your relevant skills and experience at a time that is best for your schedule.

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Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$150,000 - $206,300 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About us

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

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