Job Description

Position Overview:

The job profile for this position is an Agile Product Management Advisor, which is a Band 4 Senior Contributor Career Track Role.

The successful candidate will provide the "voice of the customer" at the Scrum team level working as part of the Integrated Pharmacy Medical (IPM) team. This individual will utilize their strong business and technical skills and experience to manage their team's intake of work, as well as prioritize delivery and maximize business value being delivered by their Scrum team. In addition, they must be able to work collaboratively as part of a larger technology organization empowered to deliver innovative solutions to the marketplace.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand key business objectives and strategy of the product(s) they support


• Work with business owners to ensure that they are engaged and supportive of direction


• Collaborate with Product Managers to ensure their prioritization is reflected in the team's backlog


• Has final decision-making authority on acceptance criteria for product functions


• Maintain and refine the inflow of work to the team (product backlog)
  
  
  • Assist the team with decomposing features into user stories and acceptance criteria
  
  
  • Assess business value and prioritizes all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with strategy
  
  
  
  


• Ensure stories clearly communicate customer/stakeholder needs to the Scrum team; work with team to clarify stories as necessary


• Comprehend and provide architecture and design support for scrum team(s)


• Understand and support inter-team dependencies and escalates prioritization issues when necessary


• Set and communicate the team's scope for the current iteration.


• Attend team and program ceremonies (e.g. Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, PI Planning, Demos)


• Work with team members to ensure products are working in production

Required Experience / Qualifications:

• Associates/Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience


• 3+ years of experience in project delivery


• Experience with Agile development required


• Exemplifies teamwork and serves as a role model and servant leader to the team


• Ability to successfully facilitate collaboration across multiple functions, departments and levels


• Demonstrates ability to obtain expert-level proficiency in pharmacy's technical assets


• Aptitude for gaining deep knowledge of the industry and business, and proactively using this knowledge to deliver meaningful results


• Strong oral and written communication skills


• Ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical partners

Desired Experience / Qualifications:

• Agile certification is a plus (i.e. SAFe Product Manager / Product Owner)

• Understands key pharmacy business objectives and strategy


• Experience working in diverse disciplines within Cigna or equivalent healthcare industry experience

Statement of Commitment:

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.

Please note that you must meet our posting guidelines to be eligible for consideration. Policy can be reviewed at this link

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of $85,400 - $142,400, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

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

Helping our customers achieve healthier, more secure lives is at the heart of what we do. While you take care of our customers, we'll take care of you through a comprehensive benefits program that helps you be at your best. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and best in class well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and dozens of corporate discounts on essentials you use every day. For more details on our employee benefits programs, please visit the "Life at Cigna" tab on our careersite: www.cigna.com/careers

About Evernorth

Evernorth, Cigna Corporation's health services segment, exists to elevate health for all. We're building on our legacy and redefining health care as we know it. Unbiased in how we think, we create without limitation. We partner without constraints, deliver value differently and act in the interest of humanity. Solving across silos, closing gaps in care, and empowering clients, customers, and people everywhere to move onward and upward. When you work with us, you'll be empowered to solve the problems others don't, won't or can't. Join us. 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.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

Cigna 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.