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Senior Director, Strategy & Business Enablement

Join Evernorth Care Management and Express Scripts as a Senior Director, Strategy & Business Enablement, where you will shape enterprise strategy, accelerate execution of critical priorities, and help define the future direction of the business. In this highly visible leadership role, you will guide strategic planning, governance, executive decision-making, and growth initiatives while ensuring the organization translates strategy into measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and refinement of business segment strategy, translating market insights, financial considerations, organizational priorities, and performance trends into actionable multi-year roadmaps.
• Advance the Lead to One agenda in partnership with Enterprise Strategy and senior business leaders.
• Design and lead governance forums, planning processes, and operating cadences that align stakeholders around priorities, investments, risk management, and execution.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership by framing strategic issues, developing executive-level communications, and supporting key decisions with clear recommendations and analysis.
• Identify, evaluate, and advance strategic growth opportunities, partnerships, and new business concepts through market assessments, business cases, and strategic fit analyses.
• Enable enterprise strategy execution through governance models, prioritization frameworks, communications plans, and accountability mechanisms.
• Drive alignment across Evernorth Care Management and Express Scripts leadership teams through structured communication forums, planning sessions, governance reviews, and town halls.
• Lead executive communications and enterprise messaging to ensure strategic priorities are effectively cascaded throughout the organization.
• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing strategy team while strengthening enterprise thinking, executive storytelling, planning disciplines, and business acumen.
• Create scalable tools, frameworks, and standards that improve strategic planning and execution across the enterprise.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 10-12 years of progressive experience in enterprise strategy, business development, corporate planning, consulting, transformation, or related leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success leading highly visible strategic initiatives with enterprise-wide impact.
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders and operating effectively within complex, matrixed organizations.
• Exceptional strategic thinking, facilitation, decision-support, and executive communication skills.
• Strong analytical, financial, and organizational judgment with the ability to evaluate complex business issues and opportunities.
• Deep understanding of strategic planning, governance design, business case development, performance management, and strategy-to-execution disciplines.
• Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop high-performing teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree strongly preferred; MBA, Master's degree, or equivalent advanced education in Business, Strategy, Finance, Healthcare, or related field preferred.
• Experience in healthcare services, pharmacy benefit management, care management, or related industries.
• Experience supporting board-level presentations, executive communications, and enterprise transformation efforts.
• Track record of leading strategic growth, partnership development, or business expansion initiatives.

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, 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.For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 196,600 - 327,600 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long term incentive plan.

At The Cigna Group, you'll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

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 seeyourself@thecignagroup.com for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.

Cigna 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.