Associate Vice President (AVP), Portfolio Management – CTO Organization

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 The Associate Vice President (AVP), Portfolio Management for the CTO organization is a senior leadership role responsible for governing, optimizing, and enabling execution of the technology investment portfolio across CTO organization for enterprise platforms, shared services, and engineering.
This role extends beyond traditional business-aligned portfolio management by coordinating across CTO-owned technology domains (e.g., platforms, infrastructure, architecture, data, security, and engineering enablement teams) in addition to business segments. The AVP ensures that portfolio investments are aligned to enterprise technology strategy, architecture standards, and modernization priorities while driving measurable business and operational outcomes.
The AVP serves as an orchestrator of demand, capacity, investment decisions, and execution alignment, balancing business priorities with technical sustainability, platform evolution, and long-term architecture direction.

Key Responsibilities1. Portfolio Strategy & Governance

• Establish and lead enterprise portfolio governance for CTO-managed investments, ensuring alignment with IT strategy, enterprise architecture, and modernization roadmaps
• Define and enforce portfolio standards, intake processes, and prioritization frameworks
• Drive value-based prioritization across business outcomes and technical investments
• Enable transparent, data-driven decision-making forums across CTO and business leadership

2. Demand & Investment Management

• Oversee the end-to-end demand lifecycle including intake, evaluation, prioritization, and approval of initiatives
• Integrate multiple demand types:
  • Business-driven initiatives
  • Technology-driven investments (technical debt, platform modernization, resiliency, security)
• Align investment decisions with strategic roadmaps, funding constraints, and enterprise priorities

3. Capacity & Resource Optimization

• Lead CTO organization capacity planning across engineering and platform teams
• Optimize allocation of funding and resources across competing initiatives
• Create transparency on CTO organizations staffing levels and manage approval process for CTO staffing (for both associate and contract resources)
• Implement capacity-based planning models that account for delivery throughput, dependency constraints, and critical skills availability

4. Portfolio Performance & Value Realization

• Establish and monitor portfolio health metrics across financials, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes
• Implement benefits realization frameworks linking investment to:
  • Business outcomes
  • Cost efficiency
  • Platform adoption and engineering productivity
  • Productivity measurements
• Deliver executive-level insights and performance reporting using data-driven metrics

5. CTO Stakeholder Orchestration

• Act as the central coordination point across CTO teams, including:
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Platform and Engineering teams
  • Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, and Data organizations
• Resolve cross-team dependencies, sequencing issues, and competing priorities
• Ensure alignment between investment decisions and enterprise architecture direction

6. CTO Communications & Strategic Narrative

• Lead portfolio-level communication strategy for the CTO organization, ensuring clear, consistent messaging of priorities, trade-offs, and outcomes
• Translate complex portfolio dynamics into executive-ready narratives and decision materials for senior leadership forums
• Drive transparency through:
  • Standardized portfolio dashboards
  • Executive briefings and readouts
  • Cross-functional updates across CTO and business stakeholders
• Serve as a single source of truth for portfolio status, risks, and investment decisions across the CTO organization
• Partner with CTO leadership to communicate:
  • Strategic shifts
  • Investment trade-offs
  • Technology priorities and modernization progress

7. Change Management Leadership (CTO Organization)

• Lead and coordinate change management across the CTO portfolio, ensuring effective adoption of new platforms, processes, and operating model changes
• Align change management strategies with portfolio delivery to ensure sustained value realization and adoption
• Partner with engineering, platform, and business teams to:
  • Assess organizational readiness
  • Identify adoption risks
  • Execute mitigation strategies
• Drive consistent change management practices, including:
  • Stakeholder engagement plans
  • Communication strategies
  • Training and enablement
• Ensure that technology and organizational changes are sequenced and coordinated across multiple CTO teams, reducing friction and enabling smoother transitions

8. Operating Model & Process Excellence

• Institutionalize Lean Portfolio Management practices, including continuous planning and dynamic funding allocation
• Standardize portfolio management processes, tools, and governance artifacts
• Drive continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and industry benchmarking

9. Risk & Compliance Management

• Ensure compliance with internal policies, controls, and regulatory requirements
• Proactively manage portfolio-level risks across delivery, technology, financial, and vendor dimensions

10. Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead and mentor a team of portfolio managers and analysts
• Build organizational capability in portfolio management, financial governance, and data-driven decision-making
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and outcomes-based delivery

11. Technology Vendor & Contract Governance (CTO Portfolio)

• Establish portfolio-level governance for technology sourcing, vendor management, and contract renewals across the CTO organization
• Drive early visibility and planning for major contract renewals to improve outcomes and avoid reactive decisions
• Align vendor investments and contract decisions with technology strategy, architecture standards, and platform roadmaps
• Partner with Procurement to strengthen sourcing strategies, negotiation outcomes, and cost optimization
• Implement consistent measures for vendor performance, value realization, and contract effectiveness
• Reduce fragmentation by improving enterprise visibility into vendor usage, enabling consolidation and stronger negotiating leverage

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 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, or related field; Master’s degree preferred
• 10+ years of technical experience and 8+ years of leadership experience
• Expertise in portfolio, program, or product management in complex enterprise environments
• Strong understanding of IT financial management, governance models, and strategic alignment
• Proven ability to drive value realization and executive-level decision-making
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills

Additional Information

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.

 

$208,500 - $286,700 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: 06-18-2026
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