Senior Vice President, US Commercial National Accounts- Cigna Healthcare

*** Flexible Location:** Connecticut, Philadelphia, PA, St. Louis, MO, Texas or other major hub location.

• Ability to travel 50%+ (or as needed), nationally as required.

OVERVIEW:

Reporting to the US Commercial President, this role serves as a key member of the US Commercial Senior Leadership Team (SLT), responsible for setting the vision and strategy across the segment as well as achieves top and bottom line business growth that supports the ongoing development and improvement of the productivity of current and new distribution channels and client/account retention.

This will be a highly influential leadership role within the organization and will play an essential role in meeting the segment growth, earnings, membership, financial objectives and portfolio management.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

This role requires a demonstration of exceptional leadership capabilities that sets the tone for a high-performing sales culture that includes:

• Be a driver of buyer group strategy development and execution.

• Possess strong distribution management and negotiation skills.

• Have a breadth of contracting familiarity and provider network knowledge.

• Ability to successfully lead in an ambiguous and changing market that is experiencing evolutions of healthcare reform, collaborative care and delivery system alliance development and expansion and the need for government municipality influence and savvy.

Success will be measured by achievement of growth targets for Cigna Healthcare's products and services, including Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, and other complementary services and ancillary products.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare, or related field equivalent experience; Master's and/or MBA degree preferred.

• Minimum 20+ years in a strategic and leadership role in a service, sales, healthcare, health plan and/or broker/consulting environment; 8-12+ years leading and managing sales team(s) at a buyer group and/or market level.

• Broad knowledge, expertise and proficiency in all aspects of sales distribution, health care, external broker and customer/client relationship management.

• Ability to be an influential business leader who can impact and garner support from matrix partners across the Enterprise.

• Strong and proven leadership skills including a demonstrated ability to manage required actions in support of delivering on a vision/mission, communicating its purpose, and helping drive outcomes/results.

• Adaptable, flexible and able to lead the organization through transformation; proven track record of delivering results that are high quality, profitable and sustainable.

• Ability to effectively collaborate across the organization with other business units and influence actions/support through critical matrix and business partners.

• Strong presentation and facilitation skills with internal and external clients and customers; develop strong working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.

• Strong leadership, sponsorship and mentoring talents, identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching to improve their knowledge or skills.

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.

About Cigna Healthcare

Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. 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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