AVP, Strategy Advancement and Decision Quality
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Associate Vice President, Strategy Advancement and Decision Quality
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.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy Advancement and Decision Quality
- Serve as an independent challenge and alignment function to improve the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of enterprise and market-level decision making.
- Evaluate strategic priorities, assumptions, and growth initiatives to ensure alignment with enterprise objectives and market realities.
- Advance organizational decision-making capabilities through improved frameworks, governance mechanisms, and decision disciplines.
- Serve as Secretary of all Bid Decision Forums, maintaining the official record of decisions, assumptions, deliberations, votes, and action items while ensuring adherence to governance standards and established decision-making protocols.
- Support Bid Decision Forum Chairs in the execution of governance responsibilities, including agenda development, decision documentation, issue escalation, and communication of outcomes.
- Promote a culture of rigorous analysis, constructive challenge, accountability, and disciplined decision making across business functions.
Strategic Advisory and Enterprise Alignment
- Act as a trusted advisor to executive leaders on significant strategic, operational, and market-related decisions.
- Facilitate alignment across Finance, Markets, Provider Strategy, and Growth Strategy on priorities, assumptions, and key decisions.
- Identify strategic interdependencies, unintended consequences, and areas of organizational misalignment.
- Support enterprise governance and decision forums by ensuring discussions are informed by objective analysis and strategic context.
- Drive greater transparency, consistency, and accountability in strategic decision-making processes.
Leadership and Organizational Influence
- Lead, coach, and develop team members while fostering a culture of strategic thinking, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Influence senior leaders and stakeholders without direct authority to drive alignment and improve decision quality.
- Build strong partnerships across business functions to advance organizational effectiveness and business outcomes.
- Represent the function in enterprise governance, bid, and strategic leadership forums.
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Decision-Making Scope
This role is expected to:
- Shape enterprise and market-level decisions through independent challenge, strategic analysis, governance leadership, and cross-functional influence.
- Recommend changes to assumptions, priorities, strategies, and decision approaches when warranted by analysis or changing market conditions.
- Establish and enhance decision-making frameworks, governance mechanisms, and strategic review processes.
- Serve as Secretary of enterprise Bid Decision Forums, helping ensure decision integrity, accountability, and institutional continuity.
- Escalate significant risks, strategic tradeoffs, and organizational misalignments to executive leadership as appropriate.
- Serve as an objective voice that strengthens organizational decision quality without assuming ownership of functional operations, financial planning, forecasting, or reporting.
Key Partnerships
The Associate Vice President will partner closely with:
- Finance leadership
- Individual Medicare Advantage leadership
- Market Presidents and Market Leadership Teams
- Growth Strategy leadership
- Provider Strategy and Network leaders
- Product and Pricing leaders
- Enterprise Strategy and Governance leaders
- Bid Governance Forums and executive decision-making bodies
- Executive Leadership Team members supporting enterprise strategy and growth
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Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay 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.
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Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides 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 and many other opportunities.
About Us
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About Humana: 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. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
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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. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
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