Senior Project Manager - Cigna Investment Management - Hybrid

Cigna Investment Management (CIM) has overall responsibility for the over $30 billion of invested assets for Cigna's Insurance Portfolios and the Cigna Pension Plans.

Cigna is a leading global health services and insurance provider and Fortune 100 company whose invested assets include public and private corporate bonds, commercial mortgages, private corporate mezzanine debt and equity, real estate equity, public equity and short-term investments.

This position, reporting to Senior Director of Investment Operations, will play a key role in CIM's multi-year infrastructure upgrade project.

This project is designed to implement foundational technology and business process upgrades necessary for long-term AUM growth: modern data management and warehousing, upgraded accounting systems, improved banking and reporting capabilities, new solutions for managing derivatives, pricing and total return, and improved operational processes that support the execution of Cigna's investment strategy while enhancing operational effectiveness to meet business growth.

The project is expected to optimize business performance by enhancing the alignment between operations and business processes, organization architecture and information technology, building and sustaining a process-managed operations organization.

This position works closely with business partners across CIM, Cigna and externally, including investment, operations, legal, finance, accounting, IT, and compliance functions and external partners such as service providers, consultants, regulators, and outside counsel to drive efficient and timely execution of project goals.

Role

The Senior Project Manager plays a contributor role as part of the CIM Transformational Roadmap, team in terms of its governance structure, team processes, and business information to support all project work related to the IT and Business initiatives.

This person aligns strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding key business and IT initiatives, as they impact Cigna Investment Management (people, processes and systems).

The primary focus of the heavy execution based role is project work in the form of assisting project teams to complete business requirements, project plans, impact assessments and ongoing planning and analysis work and understanding the broader end to end focus of inputs and outputs to and from E2E CIM perspective.

The role lead reports into CIM Program Roadmap owners and works closely with the Operational Leaders, IT Delivery Team, to align CIM infrastructure (system) solutions with business needs.

Key role in CIM's Transformational Roadmap project:


* Assist with Governance implementation


* Work closely with Vendor(s), consultants and internal and external IT teams on project implementation


* Development of presentations and materials to communicate project goals, status and critical issues to stakeholders including governance committees, project participants, the broader CIM team a...