Medical Cost Analytics Senior Manager (Remote)

Cigna Healthcare; United States; Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental insurance

401(k)

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking a Senior Manager to lead a team of analysts driving Payment Integrity analytics and AI to inform executive decisions. You will partner with Finance, Operations, Clinical, Product and Network teams to evaluate trends and measure financial impact.

You will manage cost-trend analyses, build business cases, and translate complex data into clear insights that influence strategic affordability initiatives across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a quantitative field; Master’s preferred.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in medical claims predictive analytics, financial modeling, healthcare economics
• People Leader experience and ability to lead in a matrixed environment

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic analytics by identifying medical cost drivers and trends, risks, and affordability opportunities.
• Develop and execute analysis and AI to support Payment Integrity strategies at the enterprise level.
• Translate analytical findings into executive-ready insights for senior leadership.
• Own business cases for affordability initiatives, including forecasts and variance analyses.
• Oversee analytics for initiatives, policy changes, and performance monitoring.
• Improve reporting and visualization through self-service analytics and AI-enabled tools.
• Modernize analytics with scalable methods and automation.
• Manage and develop a team of analysts and balance multiple initiatives.

Skills

Data analytics leadership

Executive communication

Leadership

Predictive analytics

Financial modeling

SQL

Excel

SAS

Databricks

Tableau

Education

Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Data Science or Analytics

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SQL

Excel

SAS

Databricks

Tableau

Job description

About the Role:

As a Senior Manager, you'll lead a team of analysts supporting Payment Integrity initiatives. This role blends healthcare data analytics and AI, financial insight, and people leadership, with a strong emphasis on influencing decisions at the executive level. The role will also be responsible for comprehensively looking at the provider and payer landscape to identify and drive innovative approaches for understanding medical cost trends, provider behavior, provider billing behavior, and healthcare industry operations to streamline medical costs for health plan members.

This role will partner closely with stakeholders across finance, operations, clinical, product and network teams to evaluate trends, support proposals, and ensure accurate financial measurement for new programs and initiatives.

This is an ideal role for a leader who enjoys connecting strategy to execution—and who wants their work to directly impact healthcare affordability.

What You'll Do:

• Lead strategic analytics by identifying medical cost drivers and trends, risks, and affordability opportunities.
• Develop and execute analysis and AI to support Payment Integrity strategies at the enterprise level driving alignment across various business unites to ensure enterprise financial goals & priorities
• Tell the story behind the data, translating analytical findings into clear, executive-ready insights that influence decisions across technical, operational, and senior leadership audiences.
• Own financial business cases for new affordability initiatives, including forecasts, variance analysis, and recommendations to improve performance.
• Support Payment Integrity by overseeing analytics for initiatives, policy changes, and ongoing performance monitoring.
• Improve reporting and visualization by assessing current capabilities and advancing self-service analytics solutions, utilizing AI to optimize quality, accuracy and reporting (e.g., Databricks, Tableau, Claude, Cursor or similar tools).
• Modernize analytics through scalable methods, automation, and thoughtful use of AI-enabled tools where they add value.
• Monitors and conducts research of related affordability, AI, business trends, using data and qualitative performance measures, to advise senior management relative to Payment Integrity strategy.
• Manage and develop a team of analysts, setting clear priorities, ensuring high-quality output, and supporting continuous skill development.
• Balance multiple initiatives by prioritizing and delegating work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Ensure data quality and accuracy by implementing appropriate checks, controls, and processes.
• Act as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders by proactively identifying insights, risks, and emerging trends that inform near- and long-term affordability strategy

What You'll Bring:

• Proven ability to translate complex analyses into actionable business insights.
• Clear, confident communication skills with experience presenting to senior and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple priorities and leading teams in a matrixed environment.
• A creative, critical thinker with strong attention to analytical accuracy.
• Comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners.
• Self-starter with a strong orientation toward continuous improvement, ownership, and impact

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a quantitative field such as Economics, Finance, Data Science or Analytics, Business, Applied Mathematics, Public Health, Actuarial Science or similar. Master’s degree preferred
• 7+ years of progressive experience in medical claims predictive analytics, financial modeling, healthcare economics
• People Leader experience
• Strong analytical and technical skills, with hands‑on experience using tools such as SQL, Excel, SAS, Databricks, Tableau, or similar platforms
• Experience with and knowledge of medical claim coding, and provider reimbursement

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 130,900 - 218,100 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 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, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we're dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. 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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