Strategy Advancement Principal

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Description

The IT Strategy Advancement Principal is responsible for evaluating Humana's technology needs and opportunities, and working with the IT organization's senior leaders in developing short-term and long-term organizational strategies and priorities to pursue. The principal must remain up-to-date with the current market and industry trends to ensure that the business adapts to the industry's changes. The principal will also partner closely with the Chief Technology and Risk Officer in crafting executive messages to Humana's Management Team and the Board of Directors about our technology strategy.

Responsibilities

Come join our team in this exciting new role! Humana's IT organization is undergoing a multi-year transformation journey to develop a cloud-based and platform-centric technology ecosystem while transitioning to agile ways of working. The Strategy Advancement Principal will provide strategic guidance and thought leadership to our senior IT leaders, and work more broadly with leaders throughout the enterprise, as they deliver strategy initiatives that address some of our most important opportunities and challenges.

The successful candidate will be a dynamic leader who has worked in strategy development at a top tier strategy consulting firm or in a large corporation. He/she will have a demonstrated ability to influence peers and business leaders. This person must be comfortable with ambiguity and able to work collaboratively with key leaders to shape the priorities and agenda for the Information Technology organization. He/she also will be effective at multi-tasking and possess keen change management skills.

Duties will be varied and will include:


Using an enterprise-wide perspective, create a clear view of IT's strategy and future state, and convert strategy into initiatives while ensuring consensus and execution. Inspire others to embrace and advance the strategy as it evolves and is realized
Significant involvement in prioritization of IT-wide strategic investments
Deliver on a wide range of short term and long term strategic initiatives, including strategy execution
Deconstruct and analyze organizational problems or opportunities, and create strategies and action plans to address
Manage high-profile, high-impact strategy initiatives from developing an approach to delivering recommendations and final deliverables
Develop high quality analysis and deliverables that clearly frame organizational objectives, issues / challenges, and articulate compelling, insightful findings, conclusions, and recommendations
Develop hypothesis to be validated or refined through targeted research and analysis
Conduct interviews, working sessions, and report-outs with leaders across the company
Oversee industry, market, competitor, and financial analysis


JOB REQUIREMENTS


BA/BS, MBA, or other relevant degrees

3 - 5 years of full-time work experience with a top tier strategy consulting firm, with meaningful experience managing a client engagement
Demonstrated ability to manage strategy engagements from conception to final deliverables
Proven experience developing board-ready material and planning for strategic annual meetings for executives
Proven experience setting priorities and defining the future direction of an organization (i.e. competitive analysis, strategy road map, strategic investment prioritization)
Strong business acumen and problem solving skills, with proven ability to perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis
Experience working directly with and presenting to Executive level management
Highly collaborative, flexible, and team-oriented working style
Excellent interpersonal, organizational, written, and oral communication and presentation skills, with proven experience writing and delivering presentations to members of senior executive teams, including CEO
Demonstrated ability to interact with senior leadership internally and externally


Preferred Qualifications


MBA, PhD, or graduate degree in a management field, with outstanding academic credentials
Prior technology or digital transformation experience, preferably in the healthcare sector


Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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