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Strategic Partner, Encounter Leadership

Humana Inc. Remote Nationwide Remote senior full-time

Salary

$94,900 - $130,500 per year

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Description

You will serve as a strategic partner to encounter leadership, translating priorities into decisions, action, and measurable results. You will organize complex work, build relationships across teams, and present clear recommendations to C-suite executives. Using data and stakeholder input, you will establish governance, anticipate risks, clarify accountability, and improve Medicaid encounter submission performance.

Key Responsibilities

  • Partner with encounter leadership to set priorities, prepare decisions, and drive follow-through on strategic initiatives.
  • Organize multiple priorities, meetings, decisions, owners, and timelines to keep complex work moving.
  • Build trusted relationships across operations, technology, compliance, markets, vendors, providers, and regulatory partners.
  • Prepare and present concise updates, risks, options, and recommendations to C-suite executives and other senior leaders.
  • Lead governance forums focused on performance, risks, dependencies, decisions, and regulatory readiness.
  • Translate complex encounter processes and business needs into clear workflows, dashboards, insights, and decision points.
  • Anticipate regulatory, platform, volume, and data quality risks before they affect encounter submissions.
  • Drive cross-functional issues from root cause analysis through solution development, executive communication, and resolution.
  • Create and maintain processes and documentation for Medicaid contract compliance and risk oversight.
  • Use data to challenge assumptions, recommend priorities, and improve inefficient processes respectfully and constructively.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree.
  • 5+ years of experience in process improvement, business operations, strategy, or program leadership.
  • 2+ years of experience leading cross-functional projects or enterprise initiatives.
  • 2+ years of experience processing medical claims and/or encounter submissions.
  • Demonstrated experience organizing multiple priorities, stakeholders, decisions, and deadlines.
  • Demonstrated experience building relationships and influencing across functions without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Medicaid or Medicare encounter data.
  • Experience with healthcare claims processing.
  • Experience with governance, regulatory readiness, dashboards, or corrective action planning.

Work Arrangements

  • Remote position.
  • Occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

  • 40 hours per week.

Pay Range

  • $94,900 - $130,500 per year.

Benefits

  • 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.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Medicaid or Medicare encounter data
  • healthcare claims processing
  • governance
  • regulatory readiness
  • dashboards
  • corrective action planning

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://humana.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Humana_External_Career_Site/job/Remote-Nationwide/Process-Improvement-Lead_R-428341-1

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