Director of Risk Management

The Cigna Group

Director of Risk Management overseeing financial insights and market strategy at Cigna. Responsible for adapting and implementing strategies to enhance market performance with accountability for P&L.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timePhiladelphia • Connecticut, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Play a key role in adapting, monitoring, and implementing the market strategy.
Provide useful risk and financial insights to help make better decisions and execute the market strategy.
Interact effectively both internally and externally, and be viewed as a trusted business advisor.
Support the market with key risk and financial information and analytics.
Drive a culture of accountability in managing the business.
Voice well-substantiated dissenting opinions.
Share market P&L accountability for the local market with MGL and market’s Senior DRM / Managing Director.
Support management process that measures and analyzes results, initiates corrective actions, and minimizes the impact of variances to ensure P&L goals are achieved.
Study financial trends to identify revenue, cost reduction, return on investment, profit, and improvement opportunities.
Hold matrix and market partners accountable to taking actions and making decisions that ensure targets are achieved.
Provide useful risk and financial insights to make better decisions about formulating and executing business strategy.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree
8+ years of underwriting, finance or related experience
Experienced people manager with a proven track record of building effective teams, as well as motivating and developing others
History of consistently delivering business results and achieving production goals
Ability to work effectively in dynamic, rapidly changing, team-based environment
Strong creative thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills
Ability to create vision and purpose
Innovative and creative thinker who develops and recommends thoughtful solutions to complex issues, and drives toward win-win solutions w/ an execution focus
Demonstrated track record of leading organizations through business model changes with proven results
Ability to foster collaboration, value others perspectives and gain support and buy-in for organizational proposals
Excellent communication and influencing skills
Strong emotional intelligence, leadership skills, and executive presence
Proven ability to function and thrive in a heavily matrixed environment
Ability to drive consistent processes across multiple locations.
Some travel required (25%)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Cigna cannot optimize outcomes without creating value for our customers and clients.
Hire and retain top grade talent.
Develop and inspire the team to achieve next level performance.
Update job knowledge, seek educational opportunities, read relevant industry and local market news, maintain professional networks, participate in professional organizations.

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Hard Skills & Tools

underwritingfinancefinancial analysisrisk managementP&L accountabilitybusiness strategycost reductionreturn on investmentperformance measurementanalytics

Soft Skills

people managementteam buildingcreative thinkingproblem solvingdecision makingcollaborationcommunicationinfluencingemotional intelligenceleadership

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree