Portfolio Lead

About Cigna Healthcare
Cigna Healthcare is a global health service company dedicated to transforming healthcare. With roots in the U.S. and operations in over 30 countries we serve more than 180 million customers and patients worldwide. Ranked 13th on the Fortune 500 in 2025 Cigna is recognized as one of the most trusted and influential names in the industry.
Our mission is to improve the health well being and peace of mind of those we serve.

Cigna Saudi Arabia a branch of Cigna Worldwide Insurance Company and the first foreign company license by Insurance Authority in KSA is committed to delivering best-in-class health solutions aligned with Vision 2030.

Youll join a globally recognized organization where trust clear communication and a positive culture shape how we work. Our leaders are consistent approachable and supportive helping you maintain balance while doing meaningful work.

We look for people who thrive in collaborative environments care about meaningful change and want to grow in a company that puts people first. At Cigna Healthcare your work contributes to better care experiences and supports customers through important moments in their lives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Alignment & Portfolio Vision

• Maintain a clear portfolio vision aligned to business strategy market needs and enterprise priorities.

• Translate strategic themes into portfoliolevel priorities and ensure alignment across sponsors ARTs and delivery teams.

• Ensure all work entering the portfolio meets strategic relevance and clear value justification.

2. Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)

• Lead the Portfolio Kanban including intake triage prioritization readiness assessments and sequencing of work.

• Support development and review of Lean Business Cases including problem statements value hypotheses dependencies risks and financial impacts.

• Ensure Epic Owners and business partners meet intake refinement and definition standards before passing items to solutioning and delivery.

3. Governance & Portfolio Operations

• Facilitate or support portfolio ceremonies: Portfolio Syncs prioritization rounds readiness reviews and quarterly or PIaligned governance checkpoints.

• Track portfolio progress risks dependencies and financial adherence across all initiatives.

• Provide structured portfolio reporting and insights to senior leadership highlighting constraints tradeoffs and required decisions.

4. Intake Management & Prioritization

• Own and continuously improve the intake process to ensure submissions meet quality standards and reflect business urgency value and feasibility.

• Apply prioritization criteria (strategic alignment value risk dependencies capacity) to determine what moves forward.

5. Execution Oversight & Dependency Management

• Support ARTs and Epic Owners by ensuring approved portfolio items are clearly communicated properly sequenced and aligned prior to PI Planning.

• Monitor flow of Epics across teams and ARTs ensuring dependencies are understood and mitigation plans exist.

• Escalate systemic risks blockers or resource constraints impacting delivery.

6. Metrics Transparency & Value Realization

• Establish and track portfolio KPIs including flow metrics delivery predictability value delivery cycle time and work in process.

• Ensure each Epic has measurable success criteria and value metrics; support postdelivery reviews and benefits realization.

• Provide datadriven insights for strategic adjustments capacity balancing and investment shifts.

7. Leadership Stakeholder Influence & Collaboration

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on portfolio health strategic tradeoffs risks and investment recommendations.

• Build strong working relationships across business technology operations finance and transformation teams.

• Coach and support Epic Owners PMs Product Managers and contributing teams in leanagile portfolio practices.

• Demonstrate leadership behaviours: ownership proactive problemsolving influence without authority structured communication and high accountability.

Experience & Qualifications

Essential

• 6 - 10 years of experience in strategy execution portfolio management program delivery or a similar role.

• Strong knowledge of SAFe Agile delivery Lean Portfolio Management and valuestreambased operating models.

• Demonstrated experience supporting or leading multiple complex initiatives concurrently.

• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills with ability to engage senior leaders.

• Proficiency in portfolio tools (e.g. Jira Azure DevOps reporting dashboards) and strong analytical skills.
  

Desirable

• SAFe certifications (LPM Leading SAFe SPC or POPM) and/or PMI certifications in Portfolio and program management

• Experience in healthcare or insurance industries.

• Understanding of financial analysis portfolio cost modelling and investment governance.

• Ability to coach teams and influence operating model evolution.

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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