Strategic Planning Principal
The Cigna Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: St. Louis • Connecticut • Montana • United States
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About the role
- Conduct external and internal reviews of the healthcare landscape (e.g., drug pipeline, emerging trends, regulatory activities, and competitive dynamics) to identify trends, opportunities, and gaps
- Evaluate the performance of internal clinical strategies to determine enhancement
- Synthesize internal and external insights into innovative and actionable recommendations that drive enterprise objectives, exceed clients’ needs, and enable differentiation in the marketplace
- Utilize internal data and modeling to evaluate financial impacts of strategies
- Build strategic partnerships with key stakeholders to achieve key initiatives and goals
- Understand and partner with the Negotiator Team to negotiate contracting language to protect formulary and trend solutions from unintended conflicts across Commercial, Medicare, and product offerings that depend on those contracts
- Monitor strategy performance and outcomes following implementation
- Develop presentations and strategic updates that synthesize complex information for senior leadership
- Establish and execute internal SOPs and playbooks for the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MHA, PharmD) preferred
- Licensed pharmacist in good standing, if degree is Pharmacy
- Minimum of 8 years with experience in healthcare strategy (e.g., pharmaceutical contracting, analytics, formulary development, product development, business development)
- Experience using financial modeling tools, including experience in interpreting and reviewing financial modeling results to evaluate the financial impacts of contract changes
- Strong financial acumen
- Demonstrated expertise in clinical strategy and healthcare innovation
- Knowledge of PBM industry, managed care, healthcare industry
- Comfortable working with complex data sets and queries
- Exceptional Strategic thinker with a track record of anticipating trends and translating insights into actionable plans.
- Experience working effectively in a matrixed organization with strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills
- Strong detail orientation, organization, and management of multiple parallel projects with fluid timelines
- Demonstrated initiative with commitment and ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
- Health insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelinghealthcare strategypharmaceutical contractinganalyticsformulary developmentproduct developmentbusiness developmentclinical strategyhealthcare innovationdata analysis
Soft Skills
strategic thinkingrelationship buildingstakeholder managementdetail orientationorganizationproject managementinitiativeability to work under pressuretime managementcommunication
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBAMHAPharmDLicensed pharmacist