[Hiring] Procurement Lead @Humana

Role Description

The Procurement Lead develops and executes strategic sourcing and category management strategies that deliver value, optimize spend, and strengthen supplier performance across the organization. The role shapes high-impact outsourcing strategies and partners with senior leaders to solve complex business challenges, design effective sourcing and commercial approaches, and build supplier relationships that deliver measurable, sustainable value.

Success in this fast-paced, evolving environment requires:

• Strategic thinking
• Commercial acumen
• Analytical rigor
• Strong executive presence

The Procurement Lead must confidently articulate complex business cases, influence senior leaders, and translate complex information into clear recommendations and decisions.

The Procurement Lead operates across business strategy, operations, finance, risk, technology, and the supplier marketplace, building trusted partnerships and influencing across the enterprise. The role requires:

• Curiosity
• Confidence
• Collaboration

to challenge assumptions, navigate ambiguity, bring diverse perspectives together, and drive alignment around the best path forward.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, supply chain, supplier management, contracting, or a related field.
• 3+ years experience leading end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives, including RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, supplier evaluations, and negotiations.
• Experience drafting, negotiating and executing complex contracts and amendments in partnership with Legal, Finance, Risk and business stakeholders.
• Experience sourcing complex services and leading outsourcing or managed-services category strategies; experience with professional services, technology, or other enterprise-level categories is also valued.
• Experience developing and executing multi-year category and sourcing strategies using spend analysis, market intelligence, supplier benchmarking, and financial analysis.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities, including experience using data to build business cases, scenario analyses, cost models, forecasts, total-cost-of-ownership assessments, and executive-level recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex sourcing initiatives simultaneously while adapting to changing business priorities and market conditions.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships, influence senior leaders, constructively challenge assumptions, facilitate trade-off discussions, and build alignment across competing priorities.
• Strong communication skills and executive presence, including the ability to simplify complex commercial, financial, and operational topics, articulate a clear point of view, and inspire confidence with executive audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business, supply chain, or a related discipline.
• Project management experience or formal training.
• Experience with spend analytics, reporting, and data visualization.
• Professional procurement, supply chain, or project management certification, such as CPSM, CPSD, C.P.M., CSCP, or PMP.

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

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.

$104,000 - $143,000 per year

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

Work at Home Requirements

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.
• In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs.
• Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary.
• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Travel

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

Application Deadline

11-13-2026

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.