Director, Corporate Strategy - Arlington, United States - Humana

Humana

Verified Company

Arlington, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first: Humana's Corporate Strategy team is a high-performing organization that works closely with Humana's senior leaders to help chart the course for the company's future. In Strategy, you will identify and analyze exciting new growth opportunities and work with business leaders to prioritize strategic investments and execute strategic transformation. "Strategy Operations" is one of three teams within the Strategy organization, which also includes the Corporate Development and Strategy Planning functions. The Strategy Operations team provides consulting services to Humana's lines of business on a project basis. As a leader of this team, you will help senior executives advance and operationalize their strategies and solve complex business problems.

As Director, Corporate Strategy, you will provide strategic guidance and thought leadership to the company's most senior leaders through engagement on a broad array of business issues and improvement opportunities.

In this role, you will lead a team of 3-5 associates to deliver on cross-functional strategy projects related to enterprise growth priorities, provide strategic support for large-scale transformation programs and external partnership opportunities, and present progress and recommendations to Humana's senior leadership.

Key responsibilities include:

Deliver on a wide range of strategic activities, including optimization/efficiency assessments, largescale transformations and strategy execution
Manage crossfunctional projects, working with leaders throughout the company to execute complex, highpriority strategic initiatives
Lead strategic problemsolving efforts by helping senior leaders define key issues, develop hypotheses and design recommendations/solutions
Develop actionable insights to equip senior leaders with the right data to make informed strategic decisions
Develop and refine key team operating systems and coach individual team members

He/she also will be effective at multi-tasking and possess keen change management skills.

Additional skills and competencies include:

Leads Positively: Leads by example to cultivate a climate of motivation, positive energy and meaning in work. Empowers and guides associates to take personal responsibility, encouraging them to productively learn, flourish, and strengthen team capacity. Assesses, selects, recognizes, and develops diverse talent to capitalize on competencies, ideas and passions.
Acts Strategically: Sees how decisions can impact the whole of the organization and makes decisions using a broad knowledge of the longterm vision, values, risk acceptance and strategy of the organization. Uses an enterprisewide perspective to translate strategies into actions, creating a clear view of the future state. Inspires others to embrace and advance the strategy as it evolves and is realized.
Customer Focus: Connects meaningfully with internal and external customers to build emotional engagement and customer advocacy. Develops and applies deep customer knowledge and intimacy to develop and deliver work that provides value beyond expectations. Simplifies complexity and integrates internal efforts to deliver an optimal customer experience
Accountability: Meets established expectations and takes responsibility for achieving results; encourages others to do the same. Employs focus, attention to detail, reliability, and appropriate prioritization to drive outcomes. Sees opportunities to contribute and takes the initiative to create solutions

Use your skills to make an impact
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Required Qualifications:

BA/BS, MBA or other relevant degrees
4+ years post MBA consulting or corporate strategy experience
Proven experience with strategic prioritization, enterprise transformation and process improvement
Proven experience working directly with and interacting with executive leaders internally and externally
Passion for people development and demonstrated leadership success, including direct or indirect team leadership
Ability to identify, structure and solve business and/or operational problems
Excellent interpersonal, organizational, written, and oral communication and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Leadership experience at toptier strategy consulting firm or Fortune 500 corporate strategy team
Six Sigma certification at Green Belt level at least
Experience working in the healthcare industry, preferably payer or provider segments

Location:

Louisville, KY or Washington, DC
The Strategy Operations team follows a hybrid model, working together in the office 23 days per week.

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Why Humana?
You'll experience the following perks as a full-time Humana employee:

Compensation and Financial Security — Our pay philosophy is designed to motivate and reward associates for their skills and contributions to the company. We provide options to help you pl