• Independently lead high-impact enterprise and therapeutic-area strategy projects, including framing problem statements, structuring analyses, managing workstreams, and delivering recommendations to senior leadership. • Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives spanning corporate affairs. • Own project timelines, stakeholder engagement, and output quality, ensuring projects advance on schedule and deliver clear strategic value. • Provide hands-on project management support for AI-related initiatives across Commercial and Medical Affairs functions, including workflow automation, AI-assisted content generation, data analytics, and digital engagement projects. • Serve as the primary point of contact with AI and technology vendors, managing day-to-day coordination, deliverable tracking, and vendor performance evaluation. • Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI landscape—including generative AI, large language models, and AI applications in life sciences—and proactively identify opportunities to apply new tools and approaches to PharmaEssentia’s commercial and medical operations. • Coordinate cross-functional input and approvals for AI-related projects, ensuring alignment with compliance, legal, and data privacy requirements. • Prepare project updates, status reports, and recommendations for senior leadership on AI initiative progress and ROI. • Lead PharmaEssentia’s portfolio review process, including meeting design, agenda setting, data synthesis, and preparation of executive/Board-level materials. • Ensure portfolio decisions are aligned with corporate strategy, capital allocation priorities, and long-range plans. • Maintain a comprehensive, strategic perspective across all programs, identifying risks, opportunities, and cross-asset implications. • Maintain and evolve portfolio dashboards, KPIs, and decision-support tools that enable senior leaders to monitor performance and make informed choices. • Conduct commercial due diligence on target assets on an ongoing basis, including market sizing, competitive landscape assessment, unmet need analysis, and clinical differentiation evaluation. • Engage directly with target company management teams and C-suites to assess organizational capabilities, pipeline depth, and strategic fit. • Conduct financial assessment, including scenario modeling, P&L forecasting, rNPV building, clinical/market inflection tracking, and value-based prioritization. • Synthesize insights into clear, concise executive summaries and presentations. • Evaluate deal structures and transaction economics, including licensing terms (milestone/royalty structures, upfront vs. contingent payments), option deal mechanics, and co-development/co-commercialization arrangements; pressure-test term sheets and provide recommendations on deal design. • Manage external diligence processes, including coordinating with outside advisors, KOL consultants, and legal counsel on deal terms; maintain relationships with investment bankers and BD intermediaries. • Proactively source and screen BD targets by maintaining a target landscape, running screening criteria against strategic priorities, and surfacing opportunities for leadership review using databases and industry intelligence. • Serve as a key contact point with external vendors and consultants across strategy, AI/technology, and business development workstreams. • Provide project management support for cross-functional initiatives, including timeline management, action item tracking, meeting coordination, and stakeholder follow-up. • Help evaluate new vendor capabilities and manage onboarding processes as projects scale. • Collaborate closely with R&D, Clinical, Commercial, Medical, and BD stakeholders to gather insights, pressure-test assumptions, and ensure cross-functional alignment. • Act as a strategic integrator—connecting scientific, clinical, and commercial viewpoints to shape cohesive strategic recommendations. • Serve as a trusted thought partner and right hand to the Head of Global Strategy on high-priority initiatives. • Produce high-quality, executive-ready PowerPoint materials, including strategic frameworks, narratives, investment cases, and portfolio updates. • Draft memos, analyses, and communication materials used by the CEO, Executive Team, and Board. Ensure clarity, accuracy, and compelling storytelling in all deliverables.

• Independently lead high-impact enterprise and therapeutic-area strategy projects, including framing problem statements, structuring analyses, managing workstreams, and delivering recommendations to senior leadership • Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives spanning corporate affairs • Own project timelines, stakeholder engagement, and output quality, ensuring projects advance on schedule and deliver clear strategic value • Provide hands-on project management support for AI-related initiatives across Commercial and Medical Affairs functions, including workflow automation, AI-assisted content generation, data analytics, and digital engagement projects • Serve as the primary point of contact with AI and technology vendors, managing day-to-day coordination, deliverable tracking, and vendor performance evaluation • Prepare project updates, status reports, and recommendations for senior leadership on AI initiative progress and ROI • Conduct commercial due diligence on target assets on an ongoing basis, including market sizing, competitive landscape assessment, unmet need analysis, and clinical differentiation evaluation • Engage directly with target company management teams and C-suites to assess organizational capabilities, pipeline depth, and strategic fit • Manage external diligence processes, including coordinating with outside advisors, KOL consultants, and legal counsel on deal terms; maintain relationships with investment bankers and BD intermediaries • Collaborate closely with R&D, Clinical, Commercial, Medical, and BD stakeholders to gather insights, pressure-test assumptions, and ensure cross-functional alignment • Produce high-quality, executive-ready PowerPoint materials, including strategic frameworks, narratives, investment cases, and portfolio updates.

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Associate Consultant, Strategy and Transformation Launch Program - 2026, San Jose, Costa Rica Associate Consultant, Launch Program - 2026 At Mastercard, our Advisors & Consulting Services (ACS) group helps clients drive impact through data-driven insights, hands-on implementation, and a collaborative, tech-enabled culture. We invest in talent through global engagements, continuous learning, and programs like the Global Ambassadors Program, while fostering purpose through volunteerism, pro-bono work, and innovation that benefits both clients and communities. Make an Impact as an Associate Consultant As an Associate Consultant, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world's biggest brands answer and often implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through taking ownership of deliverables and building external relationships with clients. Focusing on technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality and more. Specialization Track We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs, and we are recruiting for four career tracks that make up our team. Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend most of your time; however, we encourage and enable working across tracks to allow team members to acquire diverse skills and experiences. Strategy & Transformation Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges to enhance performance and operations. Our engagements cover diverse areas, including product development, marketing, customer loyalty, and innovation. Working with clients from various industries, many S&T engagements directly interface with numerous Fortune 500 companies. This role aligns with the practices of traditional management consulting firms. Sampling of questions we help our customers answer: - How can a global financial services institution be successful at entering a hyper competitive new market? - How can a customer improve its operating model to better achieve operational, financial and strategic goals? - Team members typically support 1-3 projects concurrently, with each project lasting for approximately 8-16 weeks. -Bring your Passion and Expertise We recruit for and value the following core competencies: Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients. Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities. Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills. Experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset (particularly for Performance Analytics or Business Experimentation tracks). Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions. Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities. Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude. Integrity: Outstanding record of academic achievement. Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from mistakes. Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity. Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Qualifications: • Undergraduate degree with a graduation date between Dec 2024 - Aug 2026;• Outstanding record of academic achievement;• Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities;• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills; • Particularly for Performance Analytics or Business Experimentation tracks, experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset;• Ability to communicate ideas effectively - both verbally and in writing - in English and the local office language(s) **** Program starting in August 2026 (full time / Hybrid Model) To participate in our job simulation and experience what it's like to work as a Consultant at Mastercard visit: https://www.theforage.com/simulations/mastercard/advisors-client-services-xvlw Corporate Security Responsibility All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must: - Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices; - Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed; - Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and - Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

Become a part of our caring community The Associate Director, Clinical Strategy and Practice develops and implements strategy. This strategy drives targeted initiatives aimed at increasing enterprise clinician capacity, enhancing clinician recruitment, development, and retention, and supporting clinician licensure compliance and continuing education. Reporting to the Director, Clinical Strategy & Practice, you will use data-based insights to direct process improvement efforts within the clinical community. You will also relate decisions to resolving complex technical and operational problems within department(s) and could lead multiple managers or specialized professional associates. The Associate Director, Clinical Strategy & Practice – Policy Governance provides enterprise leadership and oversight for Utilization Management (UM) policy governance. This oversight also includes UM Committee (UMC) functions and UM letters, including Medicaid adverse determination letters. You will ensure, compliant, and scalable application of UM standards across programs. The Associate Director leads governance‑driven strategy, process improvement, and restructuring efforts to address inefficiencies, reduce regulatory risk, improve quality and, and support a sustainable workforce model. This role partners with clinical, compliance, legal, operations, and process improvement leaders to ensure governance decisions are operationalized across markets. Key Responsibilities - Provide end-to-end leadership for Medicaid UM governance, including UMC and UM policy design, implementation, and sustainability. - Ensure UM policies and governance decisions align with NCQA, CMS, and state requirements and are applied consistently across markets. - Establish standardized UM governance processes to support compliance, scalability, and audit readiness. - Provide governance oversight for Medicaid UM letters, including adverse determinations, to ensure quality and compliance. - Standardize and optimize UM letter workflows, roles, handoffs, and quality controls to support efficiency and workforce sustainability. - Lead and partner across clinical strategy, UM operations, compliance, legal, quality, and IT to advance centralized UM strategy and sustainable operating models. Use your skills to make an impact Required Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, public health, business administration, or a related field. - 3+ years direct management experience - 5+ years of experience in healthcare operations, utilization management, policy governance, or related areas within a managed care or health plan environment. - Strong knowledge of Medicaid, NCQA, CMS, and state regulatory requirements relevant to utilization management. - Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects or governance initiatives in a healthcare setting. Preferred Qualifications: - UM Committees and Medicaid adverse determination letters. - Process improvement certification (e.g., Lean Six Sigma, PMP). Additional Information: Additional Information · Workstyle: Remote · Must be able to work Eastern Time Zone hours · Travel: 1-2 times annually for onsite meetings Interview Format As part of our hiring process for this opportunity, we will use an interviewing technology called HireVue to enhance our hiring. HireVue allows us to quickly connect and gain valuable information from you about your relevant experience at a time that is best for your schedule. 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. $126,300 - $173,700 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: 04-24-2026 About us About Humana: 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 – 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 and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com. ​ 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.