[Hiring] Senior Principal, Enterprise Strategy & Strategic Opportunities @The Cigna Group

Role Description

The Senior Principal, Enterprise Strategy & Strategic Opportunities is a senior leader within Enterprise Strategy, Ventures & Innovation responsible for shaping and advancing high-value enterprise and business strategies. The role will own a portfolio of consequential opportunities and unresolved strategic questions, with primary focus on critical problem solving, business opportunities, and new growth and business innovation.

The Senior Principal will also provide senior leadership capacity across the broader Enterprise Strategy agenda, including:

• Enterprise strategic positioning and competitive strategy
• Long-term enterprise strategy and strategic priorities strategy development
• Selected strategic planning priorities

This leader is expected to combine strong external orientation, strategic judgment, commercial insight, and the ability to lead through influence.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Opportunities & Critical Problem Solving
  • Own a portfolio of the most important unresolved enterprise or business 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 can create meaningful enterprise value.
  • Lead rigorous 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 flexible strategy pods, maintaining pace, quality, and alignment from question definition through leadership decision.
• New Growth and Business Innovation
  • Shape new growth and business innovation strategies that create new growth, strengthen scaled core businesses, or evolve future business models.
  • Identify opportunities where new propositions, channels, partnerships, technologies, capabilities, or combinations of enterprise assets can improve customer value, economics, growth, or long-term advantage.
  • Develop innovation and opportunity theses, future-state models, growth platforms, and incubation or investment logic.
  • Partner with business units, innovation, Corporate Development, Finance, and enterprise leaders to pressure-test concepts, build opportunity cases, and determine which ideas merit further investment or action.
  • Move beyond idea identification by defining the strategic path, critical choices, evidence requirements, and early actions needed to advance priority opportunities.
• Enterprise Strategic Positioning, Long-Term Strategy & Enterprise Direction Support
  • Lead or support high-consequence enterprise strategic positioning and competitive strategy and enterprise-choice work.
  • Help steward and advance long-term enterprise strategy and strategic priorities.
  • Develop portfolio, pathway, competitive-position, and strategic-option analyses for Board and ELT discussions.
  • Integrate external, customer, competitor, financial, and internal capability perspectives to challenge assumptions and strengthen enterprise recommendations.
  • Partner with the VP of Enterprise Strategy and other senior strategy leaders on sensitive, confidential, and highly ambiguous priorities.
• Strategic Planning & Cross-Team Leadership
  • Provide senior strategy capacity to selected planning priorities.
  • Partner with the Strategic Planning & Integration Lead to connect opportunity and innovation work to enterprise priorities.
  • Contribute to enterprise planning reviews, leadership forums, and Board readiness.
  • Maintain durable ownership of assigned strategy lanes while deploying flexibly across the Enterprise Strategy portfolio.
  • Help prioritize and deploy supporting talent across projects and develop Principals and Advisors through clear direction, coaching, and high-quality feedback.
• External Insight, Relationships & Executive Influence
  • Maintain a deeply external perspective on healthcare markets, customer and employer needs, competitors, policy, technology, capital flows, and emerging business models.
  • Identify external developments that create enterprise opportunities, risks, strategic inflection points, or the need for new solutions.
  • Build trusted relationships and an active network across business units, enterprise corporate functions and shared services, Corporate Development, Finance, innovation, peer groups, the Strategy Community, and senior leadership.
  • Engage leaders to sharpen questions, surface diverse perspectives, create alignment, and improve the quality and speed of strategic decisions.
  • Develop compelling executive narratives, presentations, and communications and represent Enterprise Strategy in leadership and cross-functional forums.

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.
• Strong analytical capabilities, including market and competitive assessment, business case development, financial analysis, scenario evaluation, and strategic synthesis.
• Experience mobilizing cross-functional teams and driving alignment across matrixed organizations.
• Proven ability to build broad, trusted relationships and navigate sensitive or confidential topics with sound judgment.

Requirements

• Experience in healthcare, health services, insurance, pharmacy, or adjacent industries.
• Experience in enterprise strategy, portfolio strategy, growth platforms, business model innovation, partnerships, or inorganic opportunity evaluation.
• Experience supporting Board, ELT, or comparable senior governance discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to develop talent and lead project teams across formal and informal reporting lines.

Benefits

• Comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health.
• Health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs.
• 401(k) and company paid life insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• A minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.