Strategic Planning Senior Director - Evernorth

SUMMARY:

We are seeking a Strategic Planning Senior Director to drive critical workstreams and thought leadership for a multi-year Pharmacy Benefits Services external strategy. This high-impact role is designed for a visionary leader who excels at driving organizational change, aligning cross-functional teams, leading high performing teams, and delivering results in complex environments. You will be responsible for shaping strategy, overseeing execution, and leading a team.  The strategy has the potential to impact and touch every line of business across Express Scripts. This role will be responsible for helping the organization realize new value creation from the strategies developed and deployed.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive External Strategic Planning: Develop and refine long-term strategies, set priorities, and establish key performance indicators to measure progress for key external events responsible for significant, measurable value creation. 

• Strategy Enablement:  Own major external initiatives (eg. Patient Advisory Board) that serves as a critical input and enablement vehicle for cross-divisional strategy. 

• Stakeholder Engagement: Own governance process and operating model to collaborate with senior leaders, functional teams, and external partners to drive buy-in and support for external strategy enablement.   

• Team Leadership: Lead dynamic team in highly complex environment, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and high performance.  Influence high performing employees who do not report directly to you. 

• Change Management: Champion change management efforts, including communication planning, training, and stakeholder readiness.

• Performance Tracking: Monitor workstream progress, identify risks, and implement corrective actions to keep projects on track.

• Reporting: Prepare and present regular updates to executive leadership, highlighting achievements, challenges, and recommendations.

IDEAL CANDIDATES WILL HAVE A COMBINATION OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree in Business, Strategy, or related field preferred.

• Experience: Minimum 10 years in strategic planning, management consulting, or transformation leadership roles in pharmacy and/or healthcare.

• Leadership: Proven experience leading large-scale, multi-year projects.

• Skills: Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. Ability to influence and drive change across diverse stakeholder groups.

• Expertise: Strong understanding of business operations, financial modeling, and project management methodologies.

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.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 193,300 - 322,100 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

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

At The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll 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 Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

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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