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Managing Director, Enterprise Capability & Learning Transformation

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Cigna logoCigna · St. Louis, MO
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Responsibilities

  • Enterprise Capability & AI Strategy
  • Define and execute a multi-year enterprise capability strategy aligned to business transformation priorities across healthcare, PBM, and specialty businesses
  • Lead the design and activation of an AI-first learning and capability strategy, including future-focused skill frameworks and capability models
  • Establish clear expectations for AI-enabled work across all employee segments-from frontline to executive leadership
  • Partner with HRLT, enterprise strategy, technology, and business leaders to align capability investments to growth, productivity, and transformation outcomes
  • Translate external market trends and emerging technologies into forward-looking workforce strategies that anticipate how work will evolve
  • Learning & Capability Ecosystem Modernization
  • Transform the enterprise learning function into a modern, skills-powered capability ecosystem that meets employees where they are and supports continuous development
  • Architect and scale a next-generation learning ecosystem that integrates platforms, vendor partnerships, content, and talent systems
  • Deliver personalized, role-based learning journeys, corporate academy models (e.g., AI, leadership, functional), and in-the-flow-of-work development experiences
  • Evaluate and optimize learning platforms and vendor strategies to improve usability, adoption, and impact
  • Establish governance, operating models, and product ownership structures for enterprise learning and capability development
  • Integrate learning with talent strategy, workforce planning, and skills architecture to enable mobility, progression, and succession planning
  • Leverage AI to personalize learning, accelerate content creation, and enhance the learner experience
  • Drive a shift from event-based training to continuous, embedded capability development that directly supports business priorities
  • Enterprise Enablement, Adoption & Transformation
  • Champion enterprise-wide adoption of learning and capability programs, improving engagement and clarity on "what good looks like" for employees at all levels
  • Lead large-scale reskilling and upskilling initiatives to support workforce transformation and evolving business needs
  • Build frameworks to clearly define skills, competencies, and career pathways-linking capability development to performance, growth, and advancement
  • Partner closely with business stakeholders to surface capability needs and ensure alignment to transformation priorities
  • Drive a "builder" mindset-creating solutions that are scalable, adaptive, and able to evolve alongside rapid advancements in AI and technology

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required/ MBA or Master's degree preferred
  • 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in learning & development, talent strategy, workforce transformation, or related functions
  • Experience leading AI/digital transformation initiatives and applying emerging technologies to workforce capability and learning strategies
  • Proven track record leading large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation initiatives
  • Demonstrated experience building, scaling, or reinventing enterprise learning, capability, or talent ecosystems
  • Strong data and analytics orientation, with the ability to measure adoption, effectiveness, and ROI of capability-building initiatives
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to influence and partner with senior leaders, including C-suite stakeholders
  • Experience operating in regulated industries

Benefits

Health insurance

Additional Information

Managing Director, Enterprise Capability & Learning Transformation This role will redefine how the enterprise builds capability for the future of work-architecting a modern, AI-enabled ecosystem that continuously develops the skills needed to lead through change, disruption, and rapid technology evolution. Reporting to a member of the HR Leadership Team (HRLT), this role operates at the highest levels of the organization and directly influences enterprise strategy, workforce transformation, and long-term business performance. This leader will be responsible for reimagining how learning, skills, and capability-building are integrated into the fabric of the organization-ensuring employees are equipped to succeed in an increasingly AI-powered and dynamic environment. Role Scope & Organizational Impact Lead an enterprise learning and capability organization of ~40 professionals, including 2 Directors, 5 Senior Managers, and a team of individual contributors Operate as a key member of the extended HR leadership team, partnering directly with HRLT and enterprise executives Own the strategy, design, and evolution of the enterprise learning and capability ecosystem Act as a transformational leader responsible for shifting the organization from traditional learning models to a modern, skills-based, continuously evolving capability engine Drive alignment across HR, Strategy, Technology, and Business leaders to embed capability-building into enterprise transformation and business outcomes


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