Portfolio Enablement Lead

The Portfolio Enablement Lead is a portfolio transformation leader responsible for shaping and advancing Humana's portfolio operating model, Agile Release Train (ART) design, and Ways of Working across multiple portfolios.

Acting as a trusted advisor to executive leadership (SVPs, VPs, and portfolio leaders), this role translates enterprise strategy into scalable portfolio operating models that drive alignment, flow, value delivery, and measurable business outcomes across the organization.

This position combines deep expertise in Lean Portfolio Management, enterprise operating model design, organizational transformation, and systems thinking with exceptional executive influence, facilitation, and data-driven decision-making skills.

The role focuses on enterprise enablement rather than delivery management, driving portfolio optimization, governance consistency, operating model maturity, and long-term organizational optimization while partnering across business and technology teams to improve enterprise performance and strategic execution.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the evolution and adoption of enterprise portfolio Ways of Working across assigned portfolios, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and regulatory requirements.
• Enable portfolio design standards, including ART structures, value stream alignment, operating models, and support portfolio governance frameworks.
• Support the development and execute portfolio transformation strategies and multi-year roadmaps that drive organizational agility and business outcomes.
• Influence executive leadership on portfolio optimization, investment alignment, prioritization frameworks, and operating model design.
• Conduct portfolio assessments and diagnostics to identify systemic risks, performance trends, opportunities for improvement, and organizational constraints.
• Facilitate executive-level planning, alignment, and decision-making sessions to resolve competing priorities and drive strategic outcomes.
• Guide and develop Senior Portfolio Enablement Leads and transformation practitioners to improve capability maturity and consistency across portfolios.
• Partner with leaders to ensure portfolio operating models support organizational goals, regulatory requirements, and long-term business strategy.
• Enable portfolio metrics and governance frameworks that measure portfolio health, flow efficiency, transformation progress, and value realization.
• Drive adoption of Lean Portfolio Management principles, systems thinking, and continuous improvement practices across the enterprise.
• Serve as the escalation point for systemic portfolio challenges and provide recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness and execution.
• Champion enterprise standards across portfolio operations, tooling, AI adoption, security, compliance, and operational excellence.
• Facilitate leadership coaching, mentoring, and capability-building initiatives that strengthen portfolio leadership effectiveness.
• Promote enterprise thinking and long-term optimization by connecting strategy, organizational design, governance, and execution.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise transformation, portfolio leadership, organizational design, or operational excellence.
• Proven experience serving as a strategic advisor to executive leadership and influencing enterprise decisions.
• Deep expertise in Lean Portfolio Management, Agile-at-scale methodologies, and enterprise operating model design.
• Demonstrated experience defining, implementing, and governing portfolio standards across multiple portfolios or enterprise domains.
• Extensive experience leading large-scale portfolio transformation and organizational change initiatives.
• Advanced facilitation experience leading executive workshops, value stream design sessions, and portfolio alignment forums.
• Proven ability to develop leaders and transformation professionals while building organizational capability.
• Strong proficiency with portfolio management and Agile lifecycle tools such as Jira Align and Azure DevOps.

Benefits: Humana offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being, including medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, and many other opportunities.