Senior Advisor, Strategic Intelligence (Health Systems Focus)

Position Summary:

The Senior Advisor, Strategic Intelligence (Health Systems Focus) supports the competitive intelligence (CI) function across The Cigna Group. This role is responsible for managing the collection, organization, and analysis of competitive and market data, translating insights into actionable, executive-ready intelligence that informs strategy, product development, and go-to-market decisions focused on hospitals and health systems to better enable partnerships across the Cigna Group.

Functions of the Job:

• Lead CI research and analysis focused on health system, hospital, and provider-owned organization strategies, including pharmacy, specialty, site-of-care, and care delivery models.

• Analyze health system market dynamics, competitive positioning, vertical integration strategies, and partnerships involving PBMs, specialty pharmacies, wholesalers, and life sciences companies.

• Support internal stakeholders with targeted intelligence on health system needs, decision drivers, and purchasing behavior to inform product strategy and provider-facing offerings.

• Partner cross-functionally with Strategy, Product, Clinical, Sales, and Provider Solutions teams to align intelligence outputs with health system growth and engagement priorities.

• Own end-to-end intelligence cycles including hypothesis development, research design, structured analysis, and delivery of executive-ready insights tailored to provider audiences.

• Conduct dissemination, analysis, and ad hoc modeling of competitor and health system financial information, including benchmarking and assessment of strategic implications.

• Leverage AI and Copilot tools to accelerate provider-market research, automate synthesis, generate competitive profiles, and improve insight speed and accuracy.

• Build repeatable frameworks, templates, and playbooks to scale health system–focused intelligence across The Cigna Group.

• Serve as a thought leader on provider market trends, competitive intelligence best practices, and AI-enabled research methodologies.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in competitive intelligence, strategy, consulting, market insights, or a related field; healthcare experience required, with provider or health system exposure strongly preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree highly preferred; Master’s degree a plus.

• Demonstrated expertise using AI, Copilot, and advanced analytics tools to accelerate research, automate workflows, enhance synthesis, and scale intelligence outputs.

• Experience designing or operating AI-enabled research processes (e.g., prompt engineering, knowledge management, synthesis automation) preferred.

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to synthesize complex, ambiguous information into clear insights.

• Familiarity with financial statements and provider economics.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience producing executive-ready deliverables.

• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across a matrixed organization.

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.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 117,800 - 196,400 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

At The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.

About The Cigna Group

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.

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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The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.

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