Director, Strategic Planning - Evernorth

About the role

Leads a team responsible for evaluating and advancing enterprise and business-specific strategic initiatives. Provides data-driven insights and recommendations to senior leadership to inform strategic direction, business model evolution, and portfolio decisions across Evernorth and The Cigna Group. Partners cross-functionally to assess complex opportunities, quantify impact, and enable leadership decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Leads evaluation of complex, cross-business strategic initiatives, including growth strategy, monetization, portfolio optimization, and regulatory impacts
• Develops executive-ready recommendations, including options, trade-offs, and risks
• Supports development of long-term strategy for priority businesses and enterprise initiatives
• Leads business case development, scenario analysis, and market assessments
• Evaluates enterprise implications of market, regulatory, and competitive dynamics
• Leads and develops a team of senior individual contributors; manages prioritization and deliverables
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to align on strategic recommendations
• Influences senior leadership decisions in a highly matrixed environment
• IDEAL CANDIDATES WILL HAVE A COMBINATION OF THE FOLLOWING:
• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years strategy, consulting, or healthcare business leadership experience in the healthcare industry
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and executive communication skills
• Experience influencing stakeholders in a matrixed organization
• Prior people leadership experience
• Healthcare services, payer/provider, or network strategy experience
• Experience evaluating regulatory or policy-driven business impacts
• 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.
• About Evernorth Health Services
• 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.
• Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.

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