Associate - Cigna Ventures - Remote

Cigna Ventures is seeking to hire an Associate to join the strategic investment team of The Cigna Group.

This person will support the team in a variety of capacities to include deal sourcing, evaluating and executing investment opportunities, engaging portfolio companies, and fund administration.

Additionally, the Associate will interact extensively with internal business leaders and subject matter experts across Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services in order to validate strategic alignment and facilitate post-investment execution.

Key Responsibilities:

Deal Sourcing and Pipeline


* Maintain and improve data-driven processes for managing our deal pipeline


* Initial outreach, data gathering/assessment, and establishing relationships with founders


* Develop investment insights and hypotheses by conducting market, product, customer, and financial research and analysis

Due Diligence


* Organize information from target companies and internal/external experts


* Conduct primary and secondary market research


* Perform rigorous financial and valuation analysis


* Draft internal investment memos

Enterprise Strategy


* Develop strong relationships across Cigna to understand strategic priorities and initiatives


* Working with Cigna Ventures team and business partners, utilize enterprise and business strategies as a lens for inorganic activities, and refine business strategy and tactics as appropriate

Qualifications:


* Bachelor's degree preferred; Master's level degree or similar experience highly preferred


* 3+ years of professional experience in healthcare industry consulting, venture capital, and/or investment banking


* Healthcare experience in care delivery, digital health, health data, or a related vertical


* Understanding of clinical, operational, and financial drivers of healthcare industry and organizations


* Demonstrated problem-solving, quantitative, and qualitative analysis skills, including familiarity with financial modeling and valuation techniques


* Proactive, self-directed leader with ability to successfully operate at multiple levels of management


* Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to quickly gather and synthesize information, draw appropriate conclusions, and make value-added recommendations

About Cigna Ventures:

Cigna Ventures is the strategic venture fund of The Cigna Group Corporation, a leading global health service company with more than 190 million customer relationships in more than 30 countries.

We partner closely with entrepreneurs who share our tenacity to unlock bold new opportunities to improve people's health and make health care more affordable, predictable and simple.

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.

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