Director, Strategic Planning - Evernorth

The Cigna Group • St. Louis, MO

11h • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Healthcare services, payer/provider, or network strategy experience
• Experience evaluating regulatory or policy-driven business impacts

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 a 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

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director