Health Service Leadership Development Program Summer Associate (Intern)
Cigna Group•Bloomfield, CT
•Hybrid
About The Position
Spend your summer doing work that can shape your career and improve healthcare. The HSLDP Summer Associate Internship is a 10-week experience for graduate students who are passionate about healthcare, energized by complex business challenges, and ready to lead with curiosity, confidence, and compassion. Summer Associates own meaningful work tied to enterprise priorities, engage with senior leaders, and experience the culture, scale, and impact of The Cigna Group.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing an MBA, MPH, or MHA, with 3 years of professional experience prior to graduate school or during career progression.
- Demonstrated leadership in professional, academic, military, entrepreneurial, community, or project-based settings.
- Strong management, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated interest in healthcare, health services, customer experience, or improving health outcomes.
- Experience using AI tools, analytics, or technology-enabled solutions to improve productivity, insights, or outcomes.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in strategy, operations, finance, product, analytics, marketing, consulting, healthcare, or general management.
- Experience leading teams, workstreams, student organizations, consulting projects, operational improvements, or customer-focused initiatives.
- Ability to connect business strategy with healthcare impact and communicate recommendations clearly to senior audiences.
- Growth mindset, intellectual curiosity, and desire to build a career as an ambitious and compassionate healthcare leader.
Responsibilities
- Own a high-impact project in areas such as healthcare strategy, product innovation, operations, customer experience, digital health, pharmacy and care delivery, provider/network strategy, or enterprise transformation.
- Apply structured thinking to assess business opportunities, analyze data, identify insights, and recommend practical solutions.
- Partner with business leaders and cross-functional teams to move work forward and communicate progress, risks, and recommendations.
- Use AI-enabled tools, analytics, and digital solutions to improve project outcomes, productivity, insight generation, or decision quality.
- Build leadership presence through executive exposure, peer collaboration, networking, mentoring, and final presentations.
Benefits
- Housing is provided throughout the summer internship.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
