[Hiring] Associate VP, IT Procurement & Supplier Management @Humana

Role Description

Become a part of our caring community. Technology is one of the organization’s largest, fastest-changing and most strategically important areas of external investment. The Associate Vice President, IT Procurement & Supplier Management will lead a 40+ associate organization responsible for converting annual technology spend into business capability, innovation, speed, resilience and financial value.

The AVP will serve as the senior Procurement partner to the Technology Leadership Team and reshape how Technology, Procurement and the supplier ecosystem work together. The role leads category and supplier management across:

• Enterprise software and SaaS
• Cloud and infrastructure
• Hardware
• Telecommunications
• Technology labor
• Consulting
• Managed services and other technology-enabled services

Success will be measured by whether Technology moves faster, makes better investment decisions and receives greater value, innovation and resilience from its supplier ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, Supplier Management, Technology Finance or related commercial leadership roles.
• Significant leadership responsibility for complex Technology spend and supplier portfolios.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including building, transforming and retaining high-performing teams.
• Deep commercial expertise across several Technology domains, such as software and SaaS, cloud and infrastructure, technology labor, managed services, hardware, telecommunications or consulting.
• Demonstrated success leading large Technology portfolios and high-value strategic negotiations. Experience with portfolios approaching or exceeding $1 billion in annual spend is strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to advise CIO-level executives and influence decisions without relying on positional authority.
• Demonstrated ability to translate Technology and business strategies into category, supplier, demand and commercial strategies.
• Strong command of licensing, subscription, consumption, capacity, outcome-based and managed-service commercial models.
• Experience evaluating total cost of ownership, supplier economics, contractual structures, switching costs and value-realization assumptions.
• Demonstrated success in strategic supplier governance, performance improvement, risk mitigation and executive escalation.
• Track record of delivering substantial financial value while balancing speed, service, innovation, resilience and enterprise risk.
• Experience simplifying end-to-end processes, clarifying cross-functional accountability and leading meaningful operating-model change.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.

Requirements

• Experience in a Fortune 500, healthcare, financial services, highly regulated or similarly complex enterprise.
• Advanced degree or relevant professional certification.
• Experience with cloud economics, FinOps, software asset management, technology business management or consumption optimization.
• Experience applying analytics, AI, automation or contract intelligence to improve productivity and decision quality.
• Experience integrating Category Management and Supplier Management into a unified value model.
• Experience leading through significant organizational change or enterprise transformation.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and 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
• Many other opportunities

Company Description

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our 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.