Interoperability Communications Lead - Cigna Healthcare - Remote

Cigna Healthcare • Missouri Work at Home, TN

22h • Remote

About The Position

The Communications Lead, Interoperability Value Strategy will report to the Director, Interoperability Value Strategy & Communications and will be responsible for translating complex interoperability initiatives, value analyses, and delivery milestones into clear, audience-specific communications. This role will help build consistent messaging for executive leaders, providers, clients, internal partners, and cross-functional teams, ensuring that interoperability capabilities are understood in terms of business value, provider experience, affordability, regulatory alignment, and digital transformation impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Marketing, Business, Healthcare Administration, Journalism, Public Relations, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in strategic communications, business communications, healthcare communications, change management, consulting, or related field.
• Strong writing, editing, storytelling, and presentation development skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical, operational, or analytical information into clear and compelling messages.
• Experience developing materials for senior leaders, cross-functional teams, external stakeholders, or client-facing audiences.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple deliverables, deadlines, and stakeholder inputs.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in healthcare, health plan operations, provider strategy, digital health, interoperability, technology implementation, or healthcare consulting.
• Familiarity with payer-provider workflows, EHR integration, FHIR APIs, prior authorization modernization, ADT/Event Notifications, or provider digital engagement.
• Experience supporting executive presentations, transformation programs, product launches, or enterprise change initiatives.
• Ability to develop simple, compelling visuals that support complex business or technical narratives.

Responsibilities

• Develop clear, consistent messaging that explains interoperability capabilities, business value, and expected outcomes for multiple audiences.
• Translate technical and analytical content related to EPP, FHIR APIs, ADT/Event Notifications, Prior Authorization APIs, and clinical data exchange into accessible business language.
• Create communications that connect interoperability investments to affordability, provider collaboration, customer experience, operational efficiency, and regulatory priorities.
• Maintain messaging consistency across executive updates, provider-facing materials, client communications, internal briefings, and strategy documents.
• Draft executive-ready presentations, talking points, leadership updates, briefing materials, and status summaries for the Director and senior stakeholders.
• Support development of value realization stories that demonstrate progress, impact, and strategic relevance of interoperability initiatives.
• Partner with analytics, actuarial, technology, provider strategy, and clinical operations teams to gather inputs and convert complex details into concise communications.
• Prepare communication materials for governance forums, leadership reviews, prioritization discussions, and cross-functional operating meetings.
• Partner with the Provider Outreach team to develop provider-facing communications that help provider organizations understand new tools, capabilities, workflow changes, and expected benefits.
• Create client-facing messaging that explains how interoperability impacts employees, care navigation, administrative experience, and overall value.
• Support stakeholder engagement plans that align communication timing, audience needs, and delivery milestones.
• Collaborate with Provider Contracting, Network Strategy, Product, Government Affairs, and Enterprise Interoperability partners to tailor communications by audience.
• Build and maintain reusable communication assets, including narrative templates, message maps, FAQs, one-pagers, slide content, and stakeholder-ready summaries.
• Manage communication timelines, approvals, version control, and coordination across workstreams.
• Ensure materials are accurate, audience appropriate, brand aligned, and consistent with enterprise priorities.
• Track feedback from stakeholders and refine communications to improve clarity, adoption, and engagement.

Benefits

• 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: Mid Level