Portfolio Management Lead – Population Health

Humana is seeking an experienced Portfolio Management Lead – Population Health to join its National Medicaid Population Health Strategy Organization. This role offers an opportunity to improve the health and well-being of Medicaid members by helping shape and govern strategies, solutions, capabilities, and operating approaches that address some of the population’s most significant health challenges.

The Portfolio Management Lead – Population Health supports the governance and performance of Humana’s health solutions portfolio. You will establish portfolio practices, integrated visibility, and decision support needed to align investments with member needs, strategic priorities, operational capacity, and expected value.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain portfolio governance, including decision rights, prioritization criteria, lifecycle stages, review gates, escalation pathways, and leadership forums.
• Build and govern an enterprise platform with the tools, templates, and workflows to guide solutions from ideation through scale and retirement.
• Lead annual and multi-year portfolio planning, translating strategic priorities into integrated solution roadmaps, resource requirements, sequencing recommendations, and decision points.
• Maintain an integrated portfolio view of health solutions, performance, resource demand, operational capacity, dependencies, risks, and expected value.
• Facilitate solution lifecycle decisions to initiate, validate, implement, scale, optimize, modify, or retire clinical and population health solutions.
• Establish portfolio performance and value-realization practices that connect solution investments with clinical, quality, affordability, member-experience, operational, and business outcomes.
• Identify and address portfolio-level risks and constraints, coordinating mitigation plans, recommending corrective actions, and escalating material issues.
• Provide executive portfolio decision support through clear updates, scenario analyses, investment recommendations, and decision materials.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Five (5) or more years of experience in healthcare portfolio management, enterprise program management with portfolio-level responsibilities, or management consulting.
• Experience developing data-driven business cases, scenario analyses, or investment recommendations that address expected outcomes, financial and resource requirements, implementation considerations, risks, and performance measures.
• Experience establishing or applying portfolio governance, prioritization, investment-planning, stage-gate, or solution-lifecycle practices.
• Experience developing portfolio-management tools, templates, workflows, or reporting processes that support consistent decision-making and execution.
• Experience developing integrated portfolio plans or roadmaps that address priorities, sequencing, resource requirements, dependencies, risks, and operational capacity.
• Experience establishing performance measures or evaluating value realization across clinical, quality, financial, member-experience, operational, or business outcomes.
• Experience leading cross-functional work and communicating recommendations to senior leaders in a complex, matrixed organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business administration, healthcare administration, public health, health informatics, finance, clinical sciences, or a related field.
• Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), or another relevant portfolio-management certification.
• Experience in Medicaid managed care, including knowledge of Medicaid populations, state requirements, population health management, healthcare quality, health equity, and health-related social needs.
• Experience managing a portfolio of clinical solutions, population health programs, benefits, partnerships, products, or service models.
• Experience designing or implementing enterprise portfolio governance, stage-gate processes, product operating models, innovation practices, or portfolio-management offices.

Additional Information

• Travel: Up to 15%, including occasional travel, outside your state of residence for collaborative and team engagement meetings.
• Work Schedule: Eastern Time Zone with a flexible schedule, including occasional nights and weekends, as business needs require.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

• 40

Pay Range

• $115,200 - $158,400 per year

Description of Benefits

• Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries 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.