Director, Strategic Planning - Evernorth

Strategic Initiatives Leader

Leads a team responsible for evaluating and advancing enterprise and business-specific strategic initiatives. Provides data-driven insights and recommendations to senior leadership to inform strategic direction, business model evolution, and portfolio decisions across Evernorth and The Cigna Group.

Partners cross-functionally to assess complex opportunities, quantify impact, and enable leadership decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Leads evaluation of complex, cross-business strategic initiatives, including growth strategy, monetization, portfolio optimization, and regulatory impacts
• Develops executive-ready recommendations, including options, trade-offs, and risks
• Supports development of long-term strategy for priority businesses and enterprise initiatives
• Leads business case development, scenario analysis, and market assessments
• Evaluates enterprise implications of market, regulatory, and competitive dynamics
• Leads and develops a team of senior individual contributors; manages prioritization and deliverables
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to align on strategic recommendations
• Influences senior leadership decisions in a highly matrixed environment

Ideal Candidates Will Have A Combination Of The Following:

• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years strategy, consulting, or healthcare business leadership experience in the healthcare industry
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and executive communication skills
• Experience influencing stakeholders in a matrixed organization
• Prior people leadership experience
• Healthcare services, payer/provider, or network strategy experience
• Experience evaluating regulatory or policy-driven business impacts

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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