Pharmacy Benefits Management - Strategy Intern

Cigna Group • Saint Louis, MO

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

The PBM Strategy Intern supports the Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) Strategy and Business Development team through work involving market insights, competitive intelligence, business performance, and cross-functional strategy execution. The role contributes to initiatives that may inform leadership discussions, improve health outcomes, strengthen organizational value, and support financial performance goals. The internship provides exposure to strategy, business development, healthcare, and cross-functional partners, as well as opportunities to work with experienced professionals and organizational leaders.

The intern helps coordinate project plans, timelines, meeting materials, status updates, and follow-ups; gathers and organizes information; documents decisions; and helps turn ideas into clear next steps. The intern also identifies opportunities to improve processes, reporting, communications, or stakeholder workflows and offers practical recommendations. In collaboration with team members and cross-functional partners, the intern supports strategy enablement, sales enablement, and communications materials that help teams align around business priorities.

The 10-week paid internship is full-time at 40 hours per week. The position is based in St. Louis, Missouri, and interns are expected to work in the office at least 60% of the time, with flexibility. The program offers exposure to PBM industry and healthcare market dynamics, enterprise strategy, stakeholder management, executive communication, and how strategic priorities are put into action in a complex organization. Program activities may include executive speaker sessions, volunteer events, networking, and career development workshops.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree and entering junior or senior year by summer 2027.
• A self-starter eager to learn and acquire new skills.
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Effective time-management and organizational skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, executive-facing environment where discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment are important.
• Strong relationship-building skills.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Preferably pursuing a degree in business, finance, economics, data science, public health, life sciences, healthcare administration, or a related field.
• Preferred cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.
• Curiosity about healthcare, pharmacy benefits, strategy, consulting, public policy, finance, analytics, or business operations.
• Comfort working with ambiguous information and synthesizing it into clear written or visual materials.
• Interest in learning how large healthcare organizations make strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

• Support PBM Strategy and Business Development initiatives related to market insights, competitive intelligence, business performance, and cross-functional strategy execution.
• Help coordinate project plans, timelines, meeting materials, status updates, and follow-ups for assigned strategy initiatives.
• Gather information, organize inputs, document key decisions, and help translate ideas into clear next steps.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting, communications, or stakeholder workflows and offer practical recommendations.
• Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners on strategy enablement, sales enablement, and communication materials that support alignment on business priorities.

Benefits

• Paid internship.
• Structured experience connecting academic learning with practical, real-world business and healthcare work.
• Opportunities to meet business and healthcare professionals.
• Volunteer opportunities to make a difference in the community.
• Career development and learning opportunities.
• Networking opportunities across the organization to prepare for a full-time career.
• Program activities may include executive speaker sessions, volunteer events, networking opportunities, and career development workshops.

What This Job Offers

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