Strategy and Competitive Intelligence Lead

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 Humana is a leader in integrated healthcare with a clearly defined purpose—to help people achieve lifelong well‑being. We are dedicated to delivering experiences and improving health outcomes for the people and communities we serve. Our care, member satisfaction, and progress powers our success and guides our commitment to place health first.
Within the Stars organization, we are building a best‑in‑class Stars Competitive Intelligence capability that supports our overarching Stars Strategy. The lead will help support the Stars team in developing knowledge infrastructure that informs strategy, strengthens execution, and enhances Humana's Medicare Stars performance.

Humana is looking for an experienced team member with meaningful management consulting experience to deconstruct challenges, perform targeted research, and create sound, logical solutions and recommendations. While doing so, you will collaborate with fellow team members, subject matter experts, corporate, functional, and department leaders. You will support the Stars Strategy by maintaining centralized resources, conducting analytical reviews, and helping translate insights into actionable recommendations for Stars leadership, Measure Owners, and cross‑functional partners

The ideal candidate demonstrates attention to detail, excels analytically, exhibits intellectual curiosity, and operates comfortably in a fast‑paced environment with evolving priorities. They have a understanding of the Medicare Advantage Stars ecosystem, strong research capabilities, and the ability to present complex information in clear formats that impact strategy. These strategy projects place the team at the forefront of defining the future of Humana's Stars programs.

Use your skills to make an impact
 

Key responsibilities include:

• Build and continuously refine Humana's Stars competitive intelligence knowledge base to ensure insights are current, searchable, and actionable for Stars strategy development
• Support measure-specific deep dives by gathering data, understanding measure mechanics, and summarizing best practices
• Conduct primary and secondary research on market dynamics, regulatory changes, and emerging trends impacting Medicare Advantage and Stars Ratings.
• Deliver high-quality analysis and deliverables that clearly frame objectives and issues and articulate compelling, insightful findings, conclusions, and recommendations
• Manage and deliver workstreams within high-impact Stars strategy projects end-to-end, from developing an approach to delivering recommendations and final deliverables
• Develop hypotheses to be validated or refined through targeted research and analysis
• Conduct industry, market, competitor, and financial analyses
• Collaborate with fellow team members and leaders across the company

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of consulting and Strategy experience.
• Collaborative, flexible, team-oriented working style
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive‑level presentations and communicate complex information to diverse audiences
• Demonstrated ability working within a matrixed environment and managing senior partners
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in cross‑functional settings.
• Experience conducting research, building analyses, and supporting business cases to inform decision‑making.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, MPH, PhD, or graduate degree in a management field
• Intelligence experience
• Prior healthcare industry experience in the managed care or provider sector
• Experience with the Medicare Advantage Stars Rating System and associated quality measures

This is a remote position.

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

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.

 

$115,200 - $158,400 per year

 

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

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, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline: 06-15-2026
About us
 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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