Job Description:
Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation's largest publicly traded health benefits companies. Humana offers a diversified portfolio of health insurance products and related services - through traditional and consumer-choice plans - to employer groups, government-sponsored plans, and individuals.

Today, Humana is a leader in consumer engagement. Throughout its diversified customer portfolio, the company provides guidance that can both help lower costs and lead to a better health plan experience.

Role: Market Finance Director
Assignment: Commercial Sales
Location: Brentwood, TN

Are you a fit?
Are you a proven leader? Would you enjoy using your Finance and Health Carrier or Payor knowledge to guide and manage a team who will ensure the profitable growth and execution of a Medical Market's strategic plan?

Assignment Capsule

The Market Finance team provides guidance to Market leaders through financial planning (development of annual strategic plans, budgets and monthly projections), performance analysis (budget variance and trend analysis), evaluating the impact of issues to strategies and budget, developing profit improvement action plans to achieve budget, assessing the competitive environment, influencing the selling, pricing, and cost management processes, and evaluating expansion opportunities.

As a Market Finance Director you will provide leadership and direction to the Market Finance team in the areas of Strategic Planning, Analysis and Execution, Financial Analysis, Pricing and Sales Management and Claims Cost Management.

• Strategy development including Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats analysis, utilization of corporate MAP data, utilization of market potential analyses, game changers, issue identification and action plans.
  
• Assist or drive with Regional and Corporate Market reviews, including strategic preparation plan and presentation.
  
• Oversee annual and monthly Budget development, variance and trend analysis
  
• Prepare of monthly Market Performance and Outlook Report.
  
• Analyze, understand, influence and communicate results of all pricing processes; pricing trend, manual rate analyses, repricing factors, network factors.
  
• Educate market leadership on pricing trend and ways business decisions impact trend (e.g. network changes) and competitive position.
  
• Actively participate in Small Business Strategy Team and monthly Large Business block renewal review meetings.
  
• Consult during rate setting and renewal negotiations for primarily 300+ size employer groups.
  
• Drive the development and monitoring of Network and Clinical cost management initiatives by proactively leading the Local Market Trend Committee to achieve the Market's financial plan. Actively participate in Market Clinical Operations meetings.
  
• Analyze trends in medical costs (actual vs. budget vs. expected for market vs. benchmarks). Responsible for recommending corrective action plans to the Local Market Trend Committee.
  

• Builds Human Capital: You deliver current, direct, complete and actionable feedback to associates to support continuous learning and growth; while ensuring that diverse perspectives are widely held, modeled and promoted. By selecting, deploying, developing and rewarding diverse talent, you are able to foster Humana's strategy and meet business requirements.
  
• Acts Strategically: You foster a consistent understanding of strategy, translate it into defined plans, and "stay the course" to implement it, while anticipating and identifying where change is needed.
  
• Implementation/Execution: You are good at organizing and managing multiple priorities and/or projects by using appropriate methodologies and tools.
  
• Champions the Customer: You keep closely attuned to the needs and perspectives of customers and use this insight for the benefit of the business.

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field
  
• Progressive leadership experience in a finance role
  
• Prior experience working for Health Carrier or Payor

• Master's Degree in Business Administration or a related field

• You will have direct reports. You will report to a Regional CFO.