Clinical Strategy Lead

About the Role

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first. The Clinical Strategy Team is a multi-disciplinary team focused on using data analysis and clinical acumen to build strategies that improve experiences for our members and providers, drive positive health outcomes, and reduce total cost of care. We are seeking a Clinical Strategy Lead to advance our strategy to ensure our members get the highest quality care. This includes supporting our members going to the highest quality providers, while also understanding root causes of high and low quality care and building strategies to improve quality of care offered. This will involve close partnership with analytical and clinical SMEs to build the strategy and approach, and operational business partners to bring strategies to life. Purpose is to help our members achieve optimal health outcomes and cost-effective care.

Employment Type: Full time Location: Remote

Responsibilities

The Clinical Strategy Lead will lead high-value, strategic initiatives that directly impact health outcomes and total cost of care of Humana’s 5M+ membership. Specifically, this Lead role will drive the strategy to support members going to the highest quality providers. You’ll have the opportunity to analyze complex business and clinical issues leveraging healthcare and operational data, while working collaboratively with clinicians, data scientists, actuaries, subject matter experts, and business owners across Humana to drive solutions forward. In this role you will lead quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify data insights and bring the insights to action through cross-organizational collaboration.

• Identify and test ways to use Humana capabilities to improve members getting best quality care, which may include ways to influence members choosing or getting referred to the highest quality providers, as well as ways to influence providers to improve quality of care offered.
• Lead through influence - partner with multiple areas of the Enterprise to get everyone on the same page and drive high-visibility strategic initiatives forward and deliver results.
• Develop and present strategy recommendations to a senior level/ C-suite audience using quantitative and qualitative data plus strong story-telling skills to gain buy-in on direction.
• Partner closely with data scientists, actuaries, and clinical associates to frame-up an analytics question, guide analysis, and draw actionable insights to inform strategy.
• Synthesize evidence from clinical literature and guidelines, as well as conduct more broad external research (e.g. competitive intelligence), to come up with ideas on approach.
• Develop a learning agenda and test plans to ensure we get the learnings from new initiatives to understand their impact and inform future direction.
• Utilize strong interpersonal skills, presentation skills, and storytelling skills to get alignment on initiatives among senior leaders, business partners and other stakeholders.
• Work cross-functionally with key partners to drive results.
• Identify important clinical and experience problems and build the business case to solve them through application of clinical, analytical, and business expertise.

Role Essentials

• Bachelor's degree
• 7 years or more of healthcare, payor, provider and/or consulting experience
• Strategy experience; experience using quantitative and qualitative data to build strategic recommendations

This Role is a Great Fit If You:

• You are passionate about improving health outcomes of seniors and ensuring they get high quality care.
• You are driven – you’re eager to use your strong strategic and analytical acumen to drive impact and create significant measurable value.
• You are collaborative – you like partnering with diverse teams across the enterprise to develop strategies and solutions that will work.
• You are curious – you enjoy learnings new things, welcome diverse perspectives, and thrive figuring out new paths forward.

Use your skills to make an impact.