VP, Enterprise Risk Management (Nashville)

Vice President Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first. The Vice President Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is responsible for rebuilding and leading a best-in-class ERM program in a complex healthcare environment. This executive will be accountable for designing the risk management strategy, reestablishing organizational capabilities, and overseeing a hybrid staffing model that includes internal and outsourced risk management services. The VP, ERM will drive enterprise-wide engagement to ensure effective risk identification, mitigation, and monitoring across all aspects of the organization. This executive works collaboratively with senior leadership, business units, and functional teams to embed a strong risk management culture and to develop and maintain frameworks, policies, and procedures that support effective risk governance.

Use your skills to make an impact.

Responsibilities :

• Lead the transformation and modernization of the ERM function, building new processes, structures, and tools aligned with enterprise objectives.
• Reassess existing risk management frameworks, policies and tools to enhance visibility, agility, and accountability across the organization.
• Drives a strategic program that is proactive in monitoring and analyzing trends, identifying risks (threats and opportunities) and developing actionable insights or impacts to Humana's objectives, growth, and reputation.
• Builds and establishes a proactive risk and resilience program that is adopted across Humana and drives value.
• Champions and promotes a risk-aware culture throughout Humana, aligning Humana's strategy with ERM's objectives and risk appetite.
• Establish an ERM roadmap, including program milestones, technology implementation, and staffing strategy.
• Monitor changes in the regulatory environment and ensure the organization's risk management practices are compliant with federal, state, industry, and COSO requirements.
• Enhance integrated risk reporting for executive leadership, the board, and key governance committees, using dashboards, key risk indicators, and risk heat maps.
• Partner closely with internal audit, compliance, legal, operational risk, IT, and business partners to ensure a coordinated and risk-aware culture.
• Build and manage a high-performing ERM team using a hybrid model of internal staff and the selected outsourced provider.
• Collaborate closely with outsourced provider to ensure adherence to service-level agreements and performance standards.
• Foster a collaborative, high-accountability environment where both internal and external staff contribute to program maturity.
• Establish and lead effective enterprise risk management committee governance and reporting, providing valuable reporting and insights to the leadership team and Audit Committee.
• Ensures process and tools are established to identify risk themes and effectively communicate and escalate those to leadership as applicable.
• Present risk findings and recommendations to executive leadership and the Audit Committee.
• Lead risk assessment activities, including risk identification, prioritization, and the establishment of risk appetite and tolerance levels.
• Facilitate scenario planning sessions with key stakeholders.
• Champion the development and execution of risk education and awareness programs across the enterprise to embed risk awareness into daily operations.
• Develop a governance structure for approvals and oversight of new projects (transformation, systems, processes, etc.). Lead execution of the developed governance structure to provide appropriate oversight for alignment with organizational risk tolerance and strategy.

Required Qualifications :

Scheduled Weekly Hours : 40

About Us :

Humana Inc. (NYSE : HUM) is committed to putting health first for our teammates, our customers, and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and 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, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

Equal Opportunity Employer :

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment. Humana complies with all applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We also provide free language interpreter services. See our https : / / www.humana.com / legal / accessibility-resources?source=Humana_Website.