Humana

Associate Vice President, Pharmacy Stars and Provider Engagement

Remote Nationwide Full time

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As a company whose primary focus is on the well-being of its members, Humana is dedicated to shifting perceptions of the health insurance industry. We believe our role goes beyond that of a provider to that of a well-being partner who will empower consumers to live a life that’s healthy, active and rewarding.

In order to fulfill that mission, we’ve launched a search focused on identifying a talented and influential leader to lead our Pharmacy Stars and Provider Engagement Team.

Humana is seeking a proven healthcare executive focused on leadership, culture and strategic business development with extensive quality measure performance experience.  Demonstrated ability to define vision and strategy, drive transformation, achieve objectives, attract, develop and retain top talent.  This leader will work and collaborate with leaders across the Humana enterprise, Humana Pharmacy Solutions executive leaders as well as partner incredibly closely with our broader Stars leadership team. 

This role is responsible for leading an organization with a mission to improve our members health outcomes via optimized medication use.  The right candidate exemplifies a balanced approach of business acumen and deep clinical knowledge and optimizes his/her resources by building a culture of accountability, high performance, and collaboration. In addition, this leader will utilize a broad understanding of managed care and PBM practice to develop, implement, and optimize strategies and programs to driver best in class quality measure performance and provider engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Owns the clinical program strategy for Pharmacy Stars quality measure performance, including end-to-end Pharmacy Stars strategy and execution.  This is inclusive of ongoing innovation to drive improvement in existing measures, preparation for measures on display and a commitment to ongoing performance improvement. 

  • Partners and collaborates with executive level leaders in the Retail organization to align programmatic and experience driven strategies to improve Stars performance.

  • Serves as a key point of contact between our Medicare Stars team, and Retail Clinical Strategy team and pharmacy; partners beyond the patient safety domain to drive Stars performance across the enterprise.

  • Supports our Opioid focused clinical programs.

  • Drives our Medication Therapy Management (MTM) strategy, delivering value and operational efficiency via strong vendor management.

  • Oversite of pharmacy provider engagement strategy; driving Stars performance and optimization of medication therapy for Humana plan members.

  • Serves as a relationship owner externally for Pharmacy Quality Alliance- a key organization that influences CMS for quality measures that become part of the Stars program

  • Leads vendor strategy to drive performance and operational efficiency across all clinical programs.

  • Leads retail pharmacy partnership strategy to drive performance

  • Partners closely with Retail and Centerwell partners to drive enterprise value and health outcomes.

  • Invests in the growth and development of associates.

  • Integrates across the broader pharmacy organization to amplify the enterprise value of pharmacy.

  • Prepare executive level communications, speaking to team performance and enterprise collaboration

  • Effectively manages program budget

Key Competencies

  • Leads Change: Models agility, adaptability and an openness to new ways of thinking and operating. Guides and energizes others to embrace new opportunities arising from change. Inspires strong organizational performance through periods of transformation, ambiguity, and complexity.

  • Leads Positively: Leads by example to cultivate a climate of motivation, positive energy and meaning in work. Empowers and guides associates to take personal responsibility, encouraging them to productively learn, flourish, and strengthen team capacity. Assesses, selects, recognizes, and develops diverse talent to capitalize on competencies, ideas and passions.

  • Drives for Excellence: You are a continuous learner who encourages others to learn. By constantly upgrading your own work, you achieve results and outperform the competition

  • Builds Trust: You honor your word by doing what you say you are going to do

  • Collaborates: Engages others by gathering multiple views and being open to diverse perspectives, focusing on a shared purpose that puts Humana's overall success first. Develops and strengthens networks and relationships, both inside and outside the organization, that support company performance. Proactively and transparently contributes information and energy toward creating value with others.

  • Implementation/Execution: You are good at organizing and managing multiple priorities and/or projects by using appropriate methodologies and tools. Develops and optimizes end-to-end processes

  • Problem Solving: You are a problem solver with the ability to encourage others in collaborative problem solving. Acting as both a broker and consultant regarding resources, you engage others in problem solving without taking over.

  • Capacity Planning: Determines the requirements of a system, process, or work unit. Plans, analyzes and optimizes capacity to satisfy business requirements, predicts and mitigates constraints, plans enhancements to existing systems, processes or work unit capacity, and determines necessary resources required to provide adequate stability and performance in the most cost effective manner


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Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in managed care or equivalent experience

  • 2+ years of quality measure experience or equivalent experience

  • 5+ years of leadership experience

  • Strong track record of driving solutions that achieved clinical and financial outcomes

  • Complex and innovative problem-solving, analytical, critical and strategic thinking capabilities; knows how to create options and then converge on solutions

  • Exceptional cross-functional collaboration, relationship management, influencing, and interpersonal skills

  • Very disciplined; has the ability to manage competing priorities and operate effectively within a large and complex organizational structure

  • Ability to engage, educate, influence and guide matrixed teams at all levels on the concepts, opportunities and strategy of managing traditional and specialty medications

  • Able to articulate vision, mobilize teams, and deliver results

  • Strong delegation and decision-making skills

  • Success in leading teams- effectively coaching, developing and leading, including direct-reports and matrixed functions

  • Impeccable oral and written communication skills, as well as the polish, poise, and executive presence to effectively interact with and present to executives, external partners, and senior-level stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

  • MBA, MPH, or health outcomes research training

  • Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist

  • Six Sigma, Lean (or other quality program) background

  • Registered pharmacist; Degree of Doctor of Pharmacy

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.


 

$223,800 - $313,100 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: 04-29-2026


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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