Director, Enterprise Clinical Strategy Cigna Healthcare Hybrid

Position Summary

The Director Enterprise Clinical Strategy serves as a pivotal leadership position responsible for architecting Cignas longterm clinical vision and translating it into actionable enterprise strategies that accelerate strategic priorities across the organization. This role operates at a high level of complexity requiring the integration of market intelligence regulatory shifts emerging care models and internal performance data to shape a cohesive enterprise roadmap that drives affordability quality and growth in alignment with Cignas clinical strategy.

The Director will work with clinical leadership and key partners to facilitate annual strategic portfolio decisions for clinical ensuring alignment clarity disciplined prioritization and datadriven decision-making. The role ensures clinical priorities are strategically embedded across our business units and enterprise operations and analytics functions. Success requires balancing nearterm execution with longrange transformation aligning diverse stakeholders and steering the organization toward innovative evidencebased models that strengthen Cignas competitive advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead intelligence and due diligence activities to support strategic decision-making including competitive landscape assessments market sizing customer segmentation and identification of emerging trends and disruptors in the healthcare ecosystem.
• Lead annual strategic planning cycles for clinical strategy and contribute to enterprise- and organization-wide strategy development ensuring alignment with P&L targets affordability imperatives and growth objectives.
• Engage matrix partners to socialize and build support for clinical initiatives articulating the value and impact of enterprise clinical programs.
• Drive rapid-turnaround development of executive deliverables ensuring data accuracy strategic alignment and effective storytelling under tight timelines.
• Create and iterate on high-impact presentations analyses and briefing documents for Csuite and enterprise committees distilling ambiguity into structured decision-ready outputs.
• Ensure seamless operational activation of strategic plans translating highlevel direction into executable workflows and clear ownership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree required; MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in healthcare strategy ideally including work in top-tier consulting or payer/provider strategy roles.
• Minimum of 4 years in a clinical setting (e.g. hospital outpatient clinic etc.)
• Demonstrated expertise in clinical strategy provider engagement and healthcare innovation.
• Exceptional strategic thinking problem-solving and executive communication skills.
• Extensive experience developing executive- and board-level presentations.
• Proven ability to deliver creative solutions to complex challenges.
• Strong financial acumen and experience with business case development.
• Experience working effectively in a matrixed organization with strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex topics into clear actionable insights.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a top-tier strategy consulting firm or corporate strategy function within a leading healthcare organization.
• Experience in payer health plan or integrated delivery system environments.
• Familiarity with clinical care delivery population health strategies and evolving market dynamics in the healthcare ecosystem.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long term incentive plan.

At The Cigna Group youll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment youll be offered several health-related benefits including medical vision dental and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) company paid life insurance tuition reimbursement a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs click here.

About The Cigna Group

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race color age disability sex childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran or military status religion national origin ancestry marital or familial status genetic information status with regard to public assistance citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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