Pharmacy Product Management Senior Advisor- Cigna Healthcare - Hybrid

The Product Manager on the Pharmacy Clinical Strategy team will be the responsible for leading the development and launch of new products and product enhancements for our pharmacy clinical programs, formulary, and/or utilization management offerings.

This Product Manager will work closely with pharmacy product peers in Networks, Benefits, and Clinical Programs, as well as with Clinical Program Management, Clinical Operations teams, and Express Scripts/Evernorth colleagues.    Other key non-pharmacy specific functional areas include Sales, Underwriting, Finance, Legal, Marketing and Communications, and Agile technology teams.   Product development opportunities will be focused on increasing customer growth, delivering best-in-class customer/client affordability, aligning client, customer, prescriber, pharmacy and health plan incentives, promoting holistic customer health and well-being and providing a best in class, differentiated customer experience.

Primary Responsibilities

Key leader on Pharmacy Product, Clinical Strategy team

• Provide leadership as a “go-to” resource on clinical product strategy team for clinical programs, formulary, and utilization management.   Generously share, experience and insights as well as provide direction, collaboration and assistance.

• Demonstrate curiosity to understand “how” and “why” existing systems/processes operate the way they do.  Use knowledge gained to enhance product design and inspire new product solutions.

• Develop strong relationships across multiple functions areas

Manage a portfolio of product development projects in various stages of the product life cycle.  Be responsible for final product design, market positioning, internal/external communications strategy and overall customer/client experience.

• Finalize, prioritized, product development concepts and articulate go-forward project scope and approach.

• Finalize project business case, using research, data and scenario modeling to demonstrate full understanding of range of potential outcomes

• Develop product positioning, launch and overall communication strategy.  Socialize widely to confirm full organizational alignment and support.

• Drive executive level understanding and excitement for new product offerings, building credibility and trust as the primary subject matter expert for Pharmacy Product.

• Lead product development project team as owner.  Work efficiently with multiple internal and external stakeholders to overcome any/all design, build and launch challenges

• Make day to day business decisions to manage project scope and budget to agreed upon deliverables.

• Update on project progress to executive leadership as required

• Provide functional level education, training and support as required

• Champion new product offerings during development, launch and ongoing utilization.

Participate in pharmacy product, extended leadership team activities.

• Provide input on recommended future direction and focus of Pharmacy Product team

• Assist with identification and prioritization of new product development opportunities

• Contribute to pharmacy product team best practices to drive continuous improvement

• Contribute to the continuing education and development of the leadership team through sharing of subject matter expertise

Technical Skill Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in product development, finance, business development or Operations.

• Working knowledge of pharmacy benefit providers.

• Strong PowerPoint and excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, VLOOKUP’s etc.

• Excellence presentation skills to leaders

• Demonstrated ability to work with remote personnel to achieve agreed upon goals and objectives

• Demonstrated ability to organize thoughts and vision into presentation ready deliverables

• Demonstrated decision making capability.

Qualifications (i.e., preferred education, experience, attributes)

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

• MBA (or equivalent in PBM experience) a plus

• 8+ years’ experience in product management

• Agile Team management experience

• Excellent written and verbal communic