Senior Principal, Enterprise Strategy & Growth

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; Bloomfield (CT); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking an experienced Senior Principal in Enterprise Strategy to own and shape high-impact strategic initiatives across the enterprise. You will lead problem framing, market and financial analyses, and cross-functional collaboration to craft decision-ready recommendations for senior leadership.

You will partner with business units and corporate functions to translate enterprise direction into sharper choices, guardrails, and growth opportunities, while guiding talent and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other relevant advanced degree strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, business development, investment banking, private equity, innovation, or related strategic leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-level strategy development, growth strategy, critical problem solving, or business opportunity work in complex organizations.
• Proven ability to autonomously lead ambiguous, high-consequence work and influence senior executives without direct authority.
• Exceptional strategic thinking, external orientation, commercial judgment, structured problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
• Experience mobilizing cross-functional teams and driving alignment across matrixed organizations.
• Preferred experience in healthcare, health services, insurance, pharmacy, or adjacent industries.
• Experience supporting Board, ELT, or comparable senior governance discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to develop talent and lead project teams across formal and informal reporting lines.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of the most important unresolved enterprise questions and convert broad asks into structured, decision-ready strategic options.
• Identify and evaluate growth opportunities, strategic adjacencies, partnerships, capability plays, and business development pathways that create enterprise value.
• Lead problem framing, issue-tree development, strategic and economic analysis, scenario assessment, and recommendation development.
• Clarify enterprise trade-offs, value-creation logic, risks, dependencies, and execution requirements for senior leadership decisions.
• Mobilize and lead cross-functional teams and strategy pods, maintaining pace and alignment from question definition through leadership decision.
• Shape new growth and business innovation strategies to create new growth or evolve future business models.
• Identify opportunities where new propositions, channels, partnerships, technologies, or combinations of assets can improve customer value.
• Develop innovation and opportunity theses, future-state models, growth platforms, and incubation or investment logic.
• Partner with business units and enterprise leaders to test concepts and determine which ideas merit further investment.
• Define strategic path, critical choices, evidence requirements, and early actions needed to advance priority opportunities.
• Move beyond idea identification by connecting opportunity work to strategic planning and investment considerations.

Skills

Strategic thinking

External orientation

Executive communication

Analytical abilities

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

The Cigna Group is seeking an experienced Senior Principal in Enterprise Strategy to own and shape high-impact strategic initiatives across the enterprise. You will lead problem framing, market and financial analyses, and cross-functional collaboration to craft decision-ready recommendations for senior leadership.

You will partner with business units and corporate functions to translate enterprise direction into sharper choices, guardrails, and growth opportunities, while guiding talent and