Bid Strategy & Execution Lead Analyst - Evernorth

Cigna Healthcare

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Lead Analyst focuses on supporting our health plan partners grow their pharmacy lives business through RFP execution. This unique role is a part of the Express Scripts Health Plan Growth team, a cutting edge consulting group that gives you features of a startup with the backing of an enterprise to utilize and grow your sales and advising skills. This role will work closely with our health plan partners to provide successful RFP execution through winning responses, database management and cross-functional collaboration. Additionally, this role will support Health Plan Growth team and Health Plan department initiatives including coordinating team meetings, lab visits and events. The ideal candidate will have a background in project management, RFPs and/or knowledge of PBM industry and be excellent at building strong, authentic relationships.

Requirements

Strategic thinker with a passion for learning and understanding, with ability to connect dots and effectively translate internal descriptions and terminology into client-facing content
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, successfully navigate ambiguity, and work independently with minimal guidance
Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability to change
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent prioritization and time management skills
Ability to plan for and integrate multiple tasks concurrently
Experience in directing or working with multi-disciplinary teams
Ability to develop deep cross-functional relationships, both within day-to-day work activities and beyond directly-assigned tasks
Demonstrated ability to coordinate tools, resources and people through to project completion
Knowledge of PBM or healthcare industry preferred

Responsibilities

Develop deep understanding of market dynamics and Health Plan needs, and position RFP responses to uniquely meet those needs
Assist Health Plan partners in RFP execution from start to finish including managing all requests to ESI
Manage and oversee Opportunities in Salesforce to support RFP tracking and reporting
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of our RFP workflow and database management tool (RFPIO), employ critical thinking to optimize content within the tool, and drive greater efficiency and effortlessness into the proposal management process
Ensure RFP responses are accurate, client-appropriate, and meet our department expectation of "good" by partnering closely with subject matter experts across the organization
Build strong, deep relationships with key cross-functional partners and Health Plans
Communicate strong points of view based on market insights, client feedback, and consultant guidance, and use that point of view to influence stakeholders in creating winning responses, while appropriately mitigating business risk
Demonstrate strong written, verbal, and graphic communication skills to support interactions with VP-level colleagues
Responsible for various team functions, coordinating client events and high-profile lab visits