Portfolio Management Lead – Population Health

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Humana is seeking an experienced Portfolio Management Lead – Population Health to join our 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 the strategies, solutions, capabilities, and operating approaches that address some of the population’s most significant health challenges.

We are building a team of strategic, curious, and result-oriented leaders who thrive in complex environments and are energized by solving meaningful healthcare challenges. Our culture values innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning. We seek individuals who combine bold thinking with disciplined execution and are motivated by the opportunity to build new capabilities, influence enterprise decisions, and make a lasting impact on the communities we serve.

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.

Working across Health Solutions and clinical, operational, analytical, financial, digital, technology, procurement, compliance, and Medicaid market teams, you will coordinate portfolio planning, business-case development, operational-readiness assessments, performance reviews, and lifecycle decisions. The role enables disciplined portfolio decisions but does not own individual solution strategies, outcomes, or operational delivery.

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.

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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…