Employer Portfolio Strategic Planning Lead – Cigna Healthcare
| Company | Cigna Group |
|---|---|
| Location | St. Louis, MO, USA, Hartford, CT, USA |
| Salary | $113600 – $189300 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of related work experience required; prior experience leading management processes for a business unit preferred.
- Strong Change Management discipline and components of Change Management.
- Experience in health care required.
- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and rapidly changing team-based, heavily matrixed environment.
- Strong analytic and decision-making abilities.
- Excellent oral, written, presentation and communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a critical business partner and advisor to the Senior Leadership teams for our U.S. Employer initiatives working in close partnership with Technology and Finance.
- Once portfolio decisions are made, supports resource planning, and ensures execution readiness.
- Acts as a connector to ensure business initiatives are prioritized, addressed, and escalated appropriately, provide strategic guidance, align with the leadership team, and drive the appropriate flow of decisions and information in furtherance of strategy execution.
- Aligning first with leadership, the Portfolio role represents U.S. Employer business in portfolio and prioritization activity where appropriate.
- Drives and is accountable for the execution of annual portfolio strategic Kick off and roadmap activities.
- Supports the development of portfolio business strategy, priorities, and goals.
- Supports prioritization of the strategic initiatives within the portfolio and the associated capacity planning requirements for the business by providing the necessary information to leadership to make the right decisions.
- Point of escalation if risks/issues cannot be resolved within the cross functional partners.
- Performing post-mortems relative to U.S. Employer Portfolio Strategy and Intake outcomes.
- Support coordination/curation of portfolio management process, responsible for ongoing implementation, adherence, revisions, etc. Participates in team meetings, strategic areas of focus across the team and governance in partnership with the leadership team. Continuously improve management practices to enable communication, collaboration, and shared accountability for success.
- Partner with the Delivery teams to ensure alignment to the portfolio management process, strategy development / translation process, and portfolio management process.
- Owns leadership and cross-functional forums /meeting management, including agenda setting, facilitation, and action item resolution.
- Partners very closely with leadership and Communications team on overall communication strategy related to portfolio status. Assists in the content creation for key communication materials to be used internally and externally.
- Ensures consistent presentation of the project in all media, including presentations, Web sites, memos, speeches, print, etc.
- Support the development of executive audience materials as required, leveraging SMEs and Communication partners.
Preferred Qualifications
- SAFe Agile Methodology certification and/or PMP Project Management Certification preferred.
- Expertise in the Cigna organization, business processes and workflows to facilitate execution of initiatives preferred.