U.S. Employer Portfolio Strategic Planning Lead - Cigna Healthcare - Hybrid

GENERAL PURPOSE:

Portfolio Management is a way to bridge the gap between strategy and implementation.

The U.S.

Employer Portfolio Strategic Planning Lead role will be responsible for supporting leadership with the planning and organization of business strategy, priorities, and goals.

The role will be engaging with multiple stakeholders to plan and deliver strategic cross-functional initiatives.

Working closely with leadership, this role serves as the voice of program/project for U.S.

Employer project feasibility, impact assessments and estimation, ensuring all impacts are captured and accounted for in the timeframes needed.

They will align on cross function assessment status, addresses risk/issues, project estimate, and value alignment.

The ideal candidate will not only manage business processes, but also actively influence strategic intent.

The successful candidate for this role will be a self-starter, intellectually curious and bring the ability to transform various developments and actions into a synthesized set of business updates and strategies for a senior executive-level audience.

In addition, they may support the Change Management process and will work with the project team and organizational leaders to ensure adoption, utilization and proficiency of the changes that impact employees in the organization to increase benefit realization, value creation, ROI and the achievement of results and outcomes.

This includes oversight and leadership of all process change management and impacted team activities.

This person will focus on the people side of change.

The primary responsibility will be creating and implementing change management strategies and plans that maximize stakeholder adoption and usage while minimizing resistance.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Portfolio Management - U.S.

Employer


* Serves as a critical business partner and advisor to the Senior Leadership teams for our U.S.

Employer initiatives working in close partnership with Technology and Finance.


* Once portfolio decisions are made, supports resource planning, and ensures execution readiness.


* Acts as a connector to ensure business initiatives are prioritized, addressed, and escalated appropriately, provide strategic guidance, align with the leadership team, and drive the appropriate flow of decisions and information in furtherance of strategy execution.


* Aligning first with leadership, the Portfolio role represents U.S.

Employer business in portfolio and prioritization activity where appropriate.


* Drives and is accountable for the execution of annual portfolio strategic Kick off and roadmap activities.


* Supports the development of portfolio business strategy, priorities, and goals.


* Supports prioritization of the strategic initiatives within the portfolio and the associated capacity planning requirements for the business by providing the necessary information to leadership to make the right decisions.


* Point of escalation if risks/iss...