[Hiring] Associate Vice President, Strategy Advancement and Decision Quality @Humana

Role Description

The Associate Vice President, Strategy Advancement and Decision Quality provides cross-functional strategic leadership to improve the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of enterprise and market-level decisions across Finance, IPA, Markets, and Growth Strategy. This role serves as an independent challenge and alignment function, ensuring strategic priorities, business assumptions, and key decisions are grounded in market realities, competitive dynamics, provider strategy, and enterprise objectives.

The Associate Vice President partners with senior leaders to strengthen decision-making rigor, improve organizational alignment, and elevate business outcomes through sound judgment, effective governance, and disciplined evaluation of strategic tradeoffs. As a leader in strategy advancement, this role works across functions to improve how decisions are made, information is evaluated, and strategic priorities are translated into action through stronger decision frameworks, governance processes, and organizational alignment.

The Associate Vice President serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, bringing an enterprise perspective to complex issues that span markets, products, provider relationships, and functional areas. The role helps surface emerging risks, identify critical interdependencies, and support leaders in navigating complex decisions. Success requires a deep understanding of organizational capabilities, market dynamics, and enterprise strategy, coupled with the ability to synthesize complex information into actionable insights and influence stakeholders without direct authority.

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic leadership and decision-making.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to synthesize complex information.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Deep understanding of organizational capabilities and market dynamics.

Requirements

• Serve as an independent challenge and alignment function to improve decision-making.
• Evaluate strategic priorities, assumptions, and growth initiatives.
• Advance organizational decision-making capabilities through improved frameworks.
• Serve as Secretary of all Bid Decision Forums.
• Support Bid Decision Forum Chairs in governance responsibilities.
• Promote a culture of rigorous analysis and disciplined decision making.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive leaders on significant decisions.
• Facilitate alignment across various departments.
• Identify strategic interdependencies and areas of misalignment.
• Drive transparency and accountability in decision-making processes.
• Lead, coach, and develop team members.
• Build strong partnerships across business functions.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off, including company and personal holidays.
• Paid parental and caregiver leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Life insurance and 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.