Senior Compensation Incentive Design Professional

Become a part of our caring community

The Senior Compensation Incentive Design Professional develops, implements, and administers incentive programs. The Senior Compensation Professional work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

As a Senior Compensation Incentive Design Professional, you will guide and assist the incentive plan design, implementation, and assessment process as part of the Incentive Compensation team. The successful candidate will utilize best practices in working with the Design Compensation leaders. They will create and implement incentive plans that drive results and help Humana attract and retain key talent in a number of roles within Humana aligned to incentive plans. You will be responsible to support plan governance by developing quarterly analytics and reports for business leaders.

• Lead the design of incentive plans to ensure competitiveness, equity and alignment with the company's business objectives and talent strategy. Translate strategic goals into market competitive programs to increase business results while attracting, retaining and motivating top talent.
• Conduct plan effectiveness evaluations and analyze incentive performance data on a quarterly basis for all plans supported.
• Assist with automation to streamline reporting and existing communication processes.
• Build forecasting and reporting models to assist Finance and Accounting with new design components.
• Work with internal compensation partners, evaluate and monitor pay positioning and target total cash levels through external benchmarking and internal talent strategy.
• Provide guidance to Compensation Leadership on plan design including pay mix, metrics, weights, and plan mechanics.
• Work with Comp Lead to partner with Finance.
• Partner with Finance and business leaders to ensure plans include line-of-sight business metrics and drive intended focus and behaviors to achieve financial objectives.
• Work collaboratively with finance and operations teams for the creation of cost modeling to evaluate plan scenarios.
• Monitor incentive compensation program outcomes.
• Implement compensation plan documents and incentive training programs for plan participants.
• Update plan documents, business rules, and other documentation with the latest compensation rules and guidelines.
• Establish processes that guarantee and/or strengthen compliance with legal requirements and mitigate risks.
• Manage communication strategy and execution to ensure plans and programs are well understood by the field organization to increase motivation and identify opportunities to simplify and standardize programs and processes.

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Advanced Excel experience
• Strong relationship building capability
• 3 or more years of data analysis or analytics experience
• 3 or more years of modeling experience
• Previous project management experience, managing large scale projects and prioritizing
• Organizational and detail oriented
• Strong time management
• Consistently seeking process improvements and implementations for elevating the organization
• Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences
• Previous experience Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Varicent
• Previous Healthcare Industry experience
• Experience with Workday

Additional Information

Interview Format As part of our hiring process for this opportunity, we will be using an interviewing technology called HireVue to enhance our hiring and decision-making ability.

WAH Internet Statement To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service must meet: minimum 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload speed.

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 $94,900 - $130,500 per year. This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan.

Description of Benefits

Humana offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, and parental leave.

Application Deadline: 06-04-2026

About us

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health.

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.