Principal - Drug Trends & Pipeline Strategy - Evernorth

Cigna Healthcare; Bloomfield (CT); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Long-term incentive plan

Health benefits

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking a Principal of Drug Trends and Pipeline Strategy to lead development and execution of clinical strategies across therapeutic areas, ensuring cross-functional alignment within Supply Chain. You will leverage analytics, clinical expertise, and industry knowledge to identify new opportunities and strengthen competitive positioning.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in healthcare strategy, strong financial acumen, and experience with formulary development, contracting, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MBA/MHA/PharmD) preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years in healthcare strategy (pharmaceutical contracting, analytics, formulary development, product development).
• Experience using financial modeling tools and interpreting results to evaluate contract changes.

Responsibilities

• Conduct external/internal reviews of the healthcare landscape to identify trends and gaps.
• Evaluate performance of internal clinical strategies and determine enhancements.
• Synthesize insights into actionable recommendations that drive enterprise objectives and differentiation.
• Utilize internal data and modeling to evaluate financial impacts of strategies.
• Build strategic partnerships with key stakeholders to achieve initiatives and goals.
• Monitor strategy performance post-implementation and report to leadership.
• Develop presentations and strategic updates for senior leadership.
• Establish and execute SOPs and playbooks for the team.

Skills

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree (MBA/MHA/PharmD)

Licensed pharmacist

Healthcare strategy

Financial modeling

PBM/ managed care knowledge

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA/MHA/PharmD

Tools

Financial modeling tools

Job description

SUMMARY:

The Principal, Drug Trends and Pipeline Strategy will be responsible for the development and execution of clinical strategies across multiple therapeutic areas to create market differentiating solutions and drive market adoption and growth. The Principal plays a key role in ensuring alignment and collaboration amongst cross-functional business units throughout the Supply Chain organization. The Principal will leverage analytical and clinical expertise, along with strong healthcare industry knowledge, to conduct strategic analyses, contribute to enterprise planning, and collaborate across clinical, product, operations, analytics, actuarial, and finance teams to identify new opportunities, expand capabilities, and strengthen competitive positioning, and support long-term strategic priorities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct external and internal reviews of the healthcare landscape (e.g., drug pipeline, emerging trends, regulatory activities, and competitive dynamics) to identify trends, opportunities, and gaps
• Evaluate the performance of internal clinical strategies to determine enhancement
• Synthesize internal and external insights into innovative and actionable recommendations that drive enterprise objectives, exceed clients’ needs, and enable differentiation in the marketplace
• Utilize internal data and modeling to evaluate financial impacts of strategies
• Build strategic partnerships with key stakeholders to achieve key initiatives and goals
• Understand and partner with the Negotiator Team to negotiate contracting language to protect formulary and trend solutions from unintended conflicts across Commercial, Medicare, and product offerings that depend on those contracts
• Monitor strategy performance and outcomes following implementation
• Develop presentations and strategic updates that synthesize complex information for senior leadership
• Establish and execute internal SOPs and playbooks for the team

IDEAL CANDIDATES WILL HAVE A COMBINATION OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MHA, PharmD) preferred
• Licensed pharmacist in good standing, if degree is Pharmacy
• Minimum of 8 years with experience in healthcare strategy (e.g., pharmaceutical contracting, analytics, formulary development, product development, business development)
• Experience using financial modeling tools, including experience in interpreting and reviewing financial modeling results to evaluate the financial impacts of contract changes
• Strong financial acumen
• Demonstrated expertise in clinical strategy and healthcare innovation
• Knowledge of PBM industry, managed care, healthcare industry
• Comfortable working with complex data sets and queries
• Exceptional Strategic thinker with a track record of anticipating trends and translating insights into actionable plans
• Experience working effectively in a matrixed organization with strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills
• Strong detail orientation, organization, and management of multiple parallel projects with fluid timelines
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate accountability for deliverables, and effectively balance multiple prioritiesPlease see attached job description

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 139,700 - 232,900 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, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs.

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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