VP, Strategic Intelligence & Market Insights

Cigna Healthcare • St. Louis, MO

20h • Remote

About The Position

The Vice President, Strategic Intelligence & Market Insights is responsible for building and leading an enterprise capability that identifies, interprets, and translates market, competitive, customer, technology, regulatory, and ecosystem intelligence into strategic business action. Reporting to the EVP, Enterprise Strategy, Ventures & Innovation and serving as a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), this leader will establish a modern, enterprise-wide intelligence function that enables leadership to anticipate change, identify opportunities, mitigate emerging risks, and make more informed strategic decisions.
This role extends beyond traditional market research and competitive intelligence. The VP will develop a comprehensive understanding of the evolving healthcare ecosystem, including market concentration dynamics, emerging competitors, adjacent industry disruption, technology innovation, regulatory developments, customer needs, and shifting sources of value creation. By connecting signals across the broader ecosystem, this leader will help the enterprise understand not only what is happening today, but where markets are heading, how industry structures and value pools may evolve, and what strategic actions and investments are required to create future competitive advantage.
This leader will also cultivate a robust external network across healthcare, technology, innovation, venture, academic, provider, payer, and startup ecosystems to bring real-world insights and emerging perspectives into the organization. Through active engagement with industry leaders, ecosystem partners, investors, entrepreneurs, academics, and innovators, the VP will establish a continuous flow of external learning that complements market intelligence and strengthens the enterprise's ability to anticipate and respond to change.
The VP will be responsible for modernizing the enterprise intelligence capability through the strategic application of advanced analytics, data, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies. This leader will build scalable intelligence infrastructure that integrates internal and external data sources, accelerates the identification of meaningful signals, and enables faster, more predictive insights that support enterprise strategy, innovation, investment, and growth decisions.
Equally important, this role will serve as the enterprise's applied learning engine, ensuring intelligence is translated into tangible business outcomes. The VP will create mechanisms that move insights beyond reporting and into action by informing enterprise strategy, capital allocation, innovation priorities, partnership decisions, product direction, and growth investments. Success will be measured not only by the quality of intelligence generated, but by the organization's ability to learn, adapt, and act on external signals faster and more effectively than competitors.
As a trusted advisor to senior leadership and the Board, the Vice President will foster a stronger external orientation across the enterprise, helping leaders anticipate future trends, evaluate strategic choices, shape long-term strategic bets, and position the organization to capture emerging opportunities in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in strategy, competitive intelligence, market intelligence, business transformation, corporate development, innovation, consulting, venture investing, or related fields.
• Deep understanding of healthcare ecosystem dynamics, including payer, provider, pharmacy, specialty, technology, regulatory, and adjacent market trends.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and translating market, customer, competitive, technology, and industry insights into enterprise strategy and business action.
• Proven success influencing executive-level strategic decisions, long-range planning, investment priorities, and growth initiatives.
• Experience leveraging advanced analytics, data, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies to drive strategic insight generation and decision support.
• Strong strategic foresight capabilities, including scenario planning, trend analysis, and evaluation of future market and business model evolution.
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling enterprise capabilities, operating models, and cross-functional partnerships in highly matrixed organizations.
• Exceptional analytical, synthesis, storytelling, and executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear business implications and actionable recommendations.
• Proven ability to influence across all levels of an organization without direct authority and drive alignment around strategic priorities.
• Track record of identifying, evaluating, and advancing new growth opportunities, partnerships, investments, or business models.

Nice To Haves

• Experience within healthcare, healthcare technology, digital health, life sciences, consulting, venture capital, private equity, innovation, or adjacent industries.
• Experience building or leading modern intelligence, insights, analytics, strategic planning, or foresight functions.
• Demonstrated understanding of AI-enabled intelligence platforms, data ecosystems, and emerging technologies that support market sensing and strategic decision-making.
• Experience engaging directly with startup ecosystems, venture communities, academic institutions, innovation hubs, industry associations, or strategic partner networks.
• Established external network of healthcare, technology, innovation, investment, or ecosystem leaders that can be leveraged to bring emerging perspectives and real-world learning opportunities into the organization.
• Experience advising executive leadership teams and Boards on enterprise strategy, growth opportunities, disruptive trends, and long-term strategic risks.
• Demonstrated ability to connect disparate market signals and emerging developments into actionable strategic insights.
• Reputation as a curious, externally oriented leader with a strong learning mindset and passion for understanding what is next.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead an enterprise-wide strategic intelligence capability that provides a comprehensive view of the healthcare ecosystem, including competitive, customer, provider, payer, PBM, specialty, technology, regulatory, and adjacent market dynamics.
• Identify and interpret emerging market concentration trends, ecosystem shifts, disruptive forces, evolving value pools, and changing competitive dynamics that may impact enterprise strategy and growth.
• Develop forward-looking perspectives on how healthcare markets, business models, and sources of value creation are evolving and where future opportunities, risks, and competitive advantages are likely to emerge.
• Serve as the organization's primary source of external insight, helping leaders understand not only what is changing, but why it matters, what it means for the enterprise, and how the organization should respond.
• Build and maintain a broad network of external relationships across healthcare, technology, venture capital, innovation, academia, provider organizations, and adjacent industries to gather real-world insights, validate emerging trends, and identify opportunities before they become broadly visible in the market.
• Design and build a modern intelligence ecosystem powered by advanced analytics, data, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.
• Integrate internal and external data sources to create scalable capabilities that accelerate signal detection, trend identification, predictive analysis, and strategic decision support.
• Establish modern tools, operating models, and governance that improve the speed, quality, accessibility, and enterprise adoption of intelligence.
• Continuously evolve intelligence capabilities to ensure the organization remains at the forefront of strategic sensing, insight generation, and market awareness.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Executive Leadership Team and Board by translating complex market developments into clear strategic implications and actionable recommendations.
• Inform enterprise strategy, long-range planning, growth priorities, innovation decisions, partnership opportunities, and capital allocation choices through objective, data-driven insights.
• Deliver scenario analyses, strategic foresight, and forward-looking assessments that help leadership anticipate change, evaluate alternative futures, and make informed strategic decisions.
• Challenge conventional thinking by bringing an external perspective into enterprise planning, decision-making, and investment discussions.
• Identify emerging growth opportunities, unmet customer needs, new business models, and adjacent market opportunities that can drive long-term enterprise value creation.
• Ensure intelligence is translated into measurable business outcomes by creating strong pull-through mechanisms that connect insights to decisions, investments, innovation, product strategy, and business execution.
• Build an enterprise learning model that captures external signals, synthesizes implications, and accelerates organizational learning and response.
• Partner across Strategy, Innovation, Ventures, Product, Technology, and business leadership teams to drive action from intelligence and embed external insight into enterprise processes.
• Establish a culture in which intelligence is not simply reported, but consistently converted into strategic action, organizational learning, and sustainable competitive advantage.
• Help the enterprise prioritize opportunities and investments based on market attractiveness, strategic fit, competitive positioning, and long-term value creation potential.
• Think beyond current business realities to anticipate how markets, technologies, healthcare ecosystems, and sources of value creation will evolve over the next decade.
• Bring an enterprise-wide perspective while maintaining deep external orientation, intellectual curiosity, and a relentless focus on future opportunities and risks.
• Leverage advanced analytics, data, and AI to create differentiated intelligence capabilities and strategic advantage.
• Translate complexity into clear decisions, priorities, and actions for executive leaders and the Board.
• Drive organizational learning by ensuring insights are converted into measurable business outcomes and enterprise value.
• Influence senior leaders and enterprise decisions without relying on formal authority.
• Balance strategic foresight with practical business judgment, business impact, and execution focus.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, applied learning, and external awareness across the enterprise.
• Build strong partnerships across Strategy, Ventures, Innovation, Technology, and business leadership teams to accelerate enterprise impact.
• Challenge conventional thinking and help the organization act with greater speed, confidence, and precision in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.
• Develop trusted external relationships and maintain an active presence across industry, innovation, investment, academic, and thought leadership networks to bring fresh perspectives, emerging ideas, and real-world learning opportunities into the enterprise.
• Act as an external ambassador and connector for the enterprise, cultivating relationships with industry leaders, innovators, academics, investors, startups, and ecosystem partners to accelerate learning, challenge assumptions, and identify future opportunities for growth and differentiation.

Benefits

• Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.
• If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email [email protected] for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.
• The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.
• Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.

What This Job Offers

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