-Management Consultant – Sales and Provider Analytics

What We Do : Enable more affordable Healthcare by enabling Cigna’s network contracting organization to negotiate best-in-class rates with healthcare providers.

We bring prescriptive insights to the forefront of the decision-making processes and position our teams to achieve better outcomes as a result of our work.

We then go-to-market to champion our affordability story and elevate our right to win new business and retain existing.

What You’ll Do :

Act as an internal consultant and project execution leader

Work cross-functionally, translating strategies into execution frameworks, ensuring our combined efforts maximize enterprise ROI through affordability gains that elevate our right to win in the Employer segment

Manage tactical delivery of key initiatives associated with fully realizing the value thesis of combining of the Sales and Provider Analytics organizations

Support the benchmarking of Broker and Client perceptions in the market and institute demand-derived means of prioritizing Client reporting features that best differentiate Cigna’s market positioning

Drive operational efficiencies by maintaining momentum on initiatives, fostering collaboration, driving project / change management, and being a consultative leader that fills team gaps

Synthesize complex subject matter into simple and relatable terms

Curate executive-level presentations that tell our value story, while teasing out delivery risks, key learnings, and our proposed path forward

Bring energy and creative drive to effectively lead team of high performing professionals across multiple segments and functions

Strategic Vision and Agility - Thinks strategically, anticipates future consequences and trends, and incorporates them into the organizational plan.

Leadership and Organization - Exceptional capacity for managing and leading people and cross-functional teams; a team builder with experience scaling up organizations;

ability to connect staff both on an individual level and in large groups; capacity to drive accountability, develop and empower top-notch leaders from the bottom up, lead from the top down, cultivate entrepreneurship, and learn the strengths and weaknesses of the team so as to put people in a position to succeed.

Customer Focus dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of clients; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services.

Matrix Management / Relationship Building Enterprise thinker with proven ability to influence across a matrix environment.

Communication - Strong persuasion skills and effective communicator; ability to create and communicate a compelling vision internally and externally.

We’re Looking for Someone Who :

Constantly considers the, So what? and Now what? behind the work.

Takes action to keep the organization moving forward.

Exercises extreme comfort with ambiguity while using a test and learn approach to their work.

Has the humbleness to know when something isn’t working and to boldly pivot direction to achieve a better result, faster.

Discerns form the details that matter to focus on what one needs to know.

Naturally associate individual’s work into the broader organizational / execution strategy.

Brings a sense of urgency, ownership, and accountability to your work.

You’re a master storyteller and enjoy using PowerPoint to distil complex topics in simple slides.

Have a knack for asking the right questions to gauge and communicate where we’re going next and judge whether we’re heading in the right direction.

You diligently prioritizing where to focus your time and attention, as a function of expected benefits to the business.

You’re resolved to find ways to make healthcare more simple, affordable and predictable!

Has a sales oriented and growth mindset - you seek to please customers, while balancing the practical elements of what we can realistically deliver in the face of resource limitations

Technical Qualifications

Bachelor's degree; Advanced graduate degree (e.g., MBA, PhD, etc.) or equivalent (typically 8+ years) work experience preferred;

Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization

Capability to drive an independent work stream in the context of a broader team project

Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations

Ability to break down and solve problems through quantitative thinking and analysis

Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing

Prefer prior experience working in Health Insurance Benefit Broker / Consulting space with a broad understanding of the competitive landscape

Has foundational understanding of managed care organizations and how provider networks are designed and the various mechanisms that improve the predictability of costs