Product Strategy & Development Senior Advisor - Express Scripts Pharmacy - Remote

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cigna Group's Evernorth Health Services division seeks a Product Strategy & Development Senior Advisor to drive product initiatives for Express Scripts Pharmacies. You will identify new solutions, assess feasibility, and build compelling business cases across market assessment, pricing strategy, and care model design.

You will partner with cross-functional teams, translate data into actionable insights, and manage initiatives to deliver on schedule in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience within healthcare / PBM industry.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Advanced degree or MBA desirable
• Experience in supply chain, product, strategic planning, program management and regulated markets (Medicare / Medicaid)
• Understanding of PBM technology systems is a plus
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence without authority
• Ability to break down complex problems into their component parts
• Proficiency in evaluating data and driving action to create additional value
• Comfort working in ambiguous or new situations, aptitude for taking a structured approach to diagnosing problems, analyzing alternatives, recommending and implementing best solutions

Responsibilities

• Understand the market by researching trends, customer demands, unmet needs and jobs-to-be-done.
• Partner with Evernorth product teams to build coordinated solutions.
• Scope, size, and create business cases by articulating strategy and monetization levers.
• Leverage reporting tools to analyze formularies, drug lists, clinical data, and financial models.
• Analyze claims utilization and volume, including margin and market share.
• Translate data into insights by identifying needs gaps and designing product features.
• Create visualizations of insights using graphs and dashboards.
• Project manage initiatives to hit milestones and deliver on schedule

Skills

PBM domain knowledge

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Problem solving

Structured thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or advanced degree desirable

Job description

Team Overview

The Pharmacy Product Strategy & Development team provides leadership and strategic direction to support the development of new solutions tied to the Express Scripts Home Delivery Pharmacies. This includes identifying client needs across multiple lines of business (commercial, health plan, Cigna, Medicare), developing concepts, creating & evaluating business cases, and designing new solutions. This team operates in a fast-paced environment with significant opportunities to collaborate with multiple functions and businesses within Express Scripts and Evernorth businesses.

Position Summary

The Product Strategy & Development Senior Advisor will have the opportunity to independently drive product initiatives that grow profitable volume and enhance the customer and client experience with Express Scripts Pharmacies. The Senior Advisor will be responsible for helping to identify new solutions, evaluate their feasibility, and develop business cases. The role will support all aspects of product development, including market assessment, pricing strategy, business and technology requirements, benefit/plan design, care management/service model, and product positioning.

Essential Functions

• Understanding the market by researching market trends, identifying customer demands, defining unmet needs & jobs-to-be-done, and generating & analyzing customer feedback
• Partnering with other product teams across Evernorth to build coordinated solutions, working in cross functional teams to explore and enable new product concepts
• Scoping, sizing, and creating business cases by articulating strategy, identifying levers to monetize solutions, sizing opportunities, and analyzing feasibility
• Leveraging reporting tools to extract and analyze formularies, drug lists, clinical data, and financial models, including the Analyst tool
• Performing analysis of claims utilization and volume, including margin, trend, indications, drug level market share, channel management, patient behavior, benchmarking, key performance indicators, etc.
• Translating data into insights by identifying solutions, identifying needs gaps, designing product features, and creating concepts & prototypes
• Creating visualization of insights, using graphs, charts, reporting and other visualization tools
• Project managing initiatives to ensure milestones are hit and solutions are delivered on schedule

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.

Qualifications

8+ years of experience within healthcare / PBM industry

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.

Advanced degree or MBA desirable

Experience in supply chain, product, strategic planning, program management and regulated markets (Medicare / Medicaid)

Understanding of PBM technology systems is a plus

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence without authority

Ability to break down complex problems into their component parts

Proficiency in evaluating data and driving action to create additional value

Comfort working in ambiguous or new situations, aptitude for taking a structured approach to diagnosing problems, analyzing alternatives, recommending and implementing best solutions

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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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.