Program Delivery Lead Enterprise Ai

Humana is seeking strategic, consulting-oriented Program Delivery Leads to support its Enterprise AI organization. These professionals will partner directly with senior AI leadership and directors to improve how enterprise AI initiatives are prioritized, organized, governed, and delivered across the organization.
Unlike traditional project managers, Program Delivery Leads are expected to operate as strategic advisors and execution leaders. They will work through ambiguity, identify organizational and operational gaps, influence stakeholders, and help establish the operating models and execution practices required to scale enterprise AI delivery.
The focus is on improving the effectiveness of the broader Enterprise AI organization-not simply managing an individual project plan.

Key Responsibilities
Partner with Enterprise AI leadership to improve prioritization, planning, and execution across multiple AI initiatives.
Assess organizational challenges, execution bottlenecks, and gaps in planning, governance, and accountability.
Develop and improve operating models, delivery frameworks, governance structures, and execution processes for enterprise AI programs.
Translate strategic objectives into actionable execution plans, operating priorities, and measurable outcomes.
Influence senior stakeholders and technical leaders to drive alignment, resolve competing priorities, and accelerate decisions.
Work across product, engineering, data science, and business teams to improve coordination and delivery effectiveness.
Drive organizational transformation and increase maturity across the Enterprise AI function.
Identify opportunities to improve resource alignment, decision-making, delivery efficiency, and cross-functional collaboration.
Navigate ambiguity and independently structure complex problems into practical, actionable solutions.
Establish accountability across teams while fostering a collaborative, high-performance working environment.
Communicate recommendations, progress, risks, and execution priorities clearly to senior leadership.

Required Qualifications
5 7+ years of consulting-level, strategic delivery, transformation, or operating model experience, ideally in a leading consulting firm or comparable enterprise advisory environment.
Demonstrated hands-on experience delivering one or more enterprise AI products or AI initiatives. Strategy-only, assessment-only, or recommendation-only experience is insufficient.
Experience advising senior executives, influencing directors and leadership teams, and driving organizational or operational change.
Strong operating model design, organizational transformation, strategic execution, and stakeholder influence capabilities.
Ability to work through ambiguity, identify root causes, and create structure where processes or ownership are not clearly defined.
Experience improving execution across multiple teams, functions, or enterprise workstreams.
Strong executive presence, communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
Experience working closely with technical teams, including product, engineering, and data science.
Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and implementation.
Experience working in high-performance, collaborative environments where leaders and teams work side by side to solve problems.

Ideal Candidate Profile
Humana is looking for candidates who resemble strategic consultants or transformation advisors from organizations such as Deloitte, Accenture, or IBM, or professionals with equivalent experience in enterprise transformation and delivery leadership.
The ideal candidate is not simply a project manager who tracks milestones and schedules meetings. They can engage senior leadership, challenge existing approaches constructively, diagnose operating challenges, influence decisions, and help teams implement better ways of working.
Candidates should demonstrate how they have improved organizational execution, influenced leadership decisions, established operating models, and contributed directly to delivering enterprise AI products.

Work Requirements
Must be local to New York City and able to work onsite three days per week.
No sponsorship available.
Strong executive presence, communication, and stakeholder influence are essential.
Must be comfortable working directly with senior AI leadership in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Must deliver a compelling 60-second elevator pitch explaining why they are the right fit for Humana's Enterprise AI organization.