Onboarding Program/Strategy Advancement Principal
Humana
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We’re seeking a strategic and collaborative Onboarding Program/Strategy Advancement Principal to lead Humana’s enterprise member onboarding transformation program. This role offers a unique opportunity to reimagine one of the most pivotal moments in a member’s journey – when they first join Humana. You’ll own the overall program, ensuring that every workstream stays aligned, on track, and in service of a seamless, high-impact onboarding experience.Humana is undertaking a strategic transformation of its member onboarding experience, a critical moment of truth in the customer lifecycle. As Onboarding Program Manager, you will serve as the program lead for this enterprise-wide effort, reporting to the AVP of Strategy Advancement. This is not a feature roadmap role; it's a program leadership role with a singular focus: ensuring the seamless, timely, and high-impact delivery of our reimagined onboarding vision across teams, systems, and stakeholders.
Throughout the annual business cycle, you will champion the onboarding transformation program and convey new strategies, tests, and progress to senior leaders across the enterprise. You’ll work with cross-functional partners across product, marketing, sales, member experience and clinical to drive evolution of onboarding strategies, pilots and outcomes.
Responsibilities
Serve as the Product Owner for Humana’s onboarding transformation program, ensuring all workstreams are strategically aligned and operationally integrated
Partner with the Onboarding Strategy team to develop hypothesis, analysis, and pilots to advance our member onboarding experience
Drive program planning, execution, and delivery across multiple cross-functional workstreams
Partner with workstream leads to maintain momentum, resolve blockers, and manage dependencies
Lead executive communications including updates, readouts, and reporting to senior stakeholders
Own and maintain core program artifacts, timelines, and governance documentation
Identify opportunities to accelerate delivery or improve fidelity to the onboarding strategy
Translate onboarding vision into a cohesive delivery roadmap with clear milestones and accountability
Bring structure, clarity, and urgency to complex challenges, while staying grounded in member outcomes
Effectively lead and develop junior members of the team
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree
7+ years in program management, product operations, or enterprise transformation roles
Proven success delivering large, multi-workstream programs in healthcare, insurance, or similarly complex environments
Strong communication skills with demonstrated experience managing senior stakeholders and executive-level reporting
Expertise in program acceleration, risk mitigation, and managing cross-functional interdependencies
Understanding of customer journey design, experience transformation, and onboarding best practices
Ability to distill strategic goals into actionable, measurable execution plans
Preferred Qualifications
MBA, MPH, PhD, or graduate degree in a management field
Experience with member onboarding, lifecycle programs, or healthcare transformation initiatives
Familiarity with CMS regulations, digital health ecosystems, and customer communication platforms
Success working in matrixed environments with distributed accountability
PMP or similar certification
Additional Information
The Onboarding Program/Strategy Advancement Principal can be a remote position. Ideally, candidates would reside in Louisville, KY, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Washington D.C., Nashville TN, or the New York City area.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay 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.
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.