Remote, Work from home, United States

The Regulatory Portfolio Delivery Organization (RPDO) supports large program portfolios, which spans the entire Enterprise meaning that programs have the potential to impact every IT, Business Unit, and Non-Integrated Business Area. This role will support Lean Portfolio Management functions with overall responsibilities related to day to day financial, governance, and coordination management activities to support all program/project within our partner portfolios in accordance with Agile principles.

This position will play a pivotal role in the Regulatory Portfolio and provide unique opportunities to gain exposure to financial management, project delivery, and prioritization of scope across our partner Portfolios. It will provide depth and breadth of experience in the following competencies: collaboration, dealing with ambiguity, managing complexity and conflict, organizational agility, managing vision and purpose, and developing talent.

Additionally, the role will offer exposure to Executive Leadership across our Business and IT stakeholders within Legal and Compliance, Enterprise Solutions IT Group, as well as our partnering Business and IT delivery areas.

Individuals in this role will work closely with Enterprise Project Managers (EPM), Business Project Managers (BPM), Operational Readiness Leads, Business Analysts, and Business Process Engineers to ensure overall portfolio/program governance, portfolio management, and project delivery.

BUSINESS TITLE/JOB TITLE:

Regulatory Lean Portfolio Manager / IT Project Management Senior Advisor

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Augments delivery group relationship management & collaboration to reinforce open communication channels to negotiate directional delivery and financial considerations

• Enables dynamic funding allocation & oversight to drive profitability and corporate accountability via Portfolio Level Financial Change Controls

• Aids in financially aligning each client portfolio with business strategy to ensure world-class customer satisfaction, mandated compliance, and strong market positioning

• Understands nature, nuance, and priority of planned/expected work in both near-term and long-term horizons to allow clearer communication between delivery and portfolio management function, as well as to other relevant stakeholders

• Performs predictive analysis to illustrate likelihood of future outcomes based on historical assessment and data intuition while tailoring messaging to serve various/ distinct audiences

• Facilitates and drives operational excellence of recurring syncs with key delivery group partners (typically intake, lean portfolio management, or area leadership) to understand current delivery trends and risks/issues

• Drives efficient investment, greater profitability, and informed cost avoidance via annual, quarter-over-quarter, and weekly financial, capacity, and adjustment (including variance analysis and optionality recommendation) tracking and reporting

• Peer mentoring team members to champion effective lean portfolio management while ensuring cross-training and continuity

• Ensures project adherence to Portfolio Governance measures

• Utilizes PM tool sets; CA PPM (Clarity), Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI), Jira, etc.

• Utilizes data visualization tool sets; Looker, Tableau, Excel, etc.

• Designs, develops, and implements department wide training and team building as required

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 4+ years of IT and 2+ years of Portfolio/Program governance, management and oversight work experience

• A robust understanding of portfolio-level delivery and financial lifecycles, indicators, and corrective actions

• High degree of efficiency in data interpretation and penchant for research and analysis of program financial information

• Excellent analytical problem-solving and organizational skills

• Ability to navigate and demonstrate success in a highly-matrixed organization

• Emotional intelligence to rapidly understand team dynamics and strives to improve team strength

• High willingness and drive to continually learn and challenge assumptions or status quo

• Large group process improvement and consensus building skills

• Excellent Customer relationship management skills and the ability to interface and communicate with many levels

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills; Detail-oriented

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent organizational and time management skills

• Ability to prioritize multiple obligations and meet aggressive timelines

• Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure

• High sense of urgency and pride of ownership

• Advanced proficiency in MS Office (Excel/VBA, Visio, PowerPoint)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Agile Experience desired

• Average Proficiency in corporate systems (e.g. CA Clarity, JIRA) desired

• Average Proficiency in business intelligence systems (e.g. Oracle Business Intelligence, VMAR rostering tool) desired

• Average Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g. Looker/Tableau) desired

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, etc. strongly desired

• Understanding of regulatory landscape and business strategy development desired

This role is WAH/Flex which allows most work to be performed at home. Employees must be fully vaccinated if they choose to come onsite. 

This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.

About Cigna

Cigna Corporation exists to improve lives. We are a global health service company dedicated to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve. Together, with colleagues around the world, we aspire to transform health services, making them more affordable and accessible to millions. Through our unmatched expertise, bold action, fresh ideas and an unwavering commitment to patient-centered care, we are a force of health services innovation. When you work with us, or one of our subsidiaries, you’ll enjoy meaningful career experiences that enrich people’s lives. What difference will you make?

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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