Job Description

Help us support our future. Get ready for a job that encourages you to think strategically yet stay connected with your teams. Do you have Agile and Product Management experience? If so, prepare to innovate, create, and inspire. The Agile Product Management Senior Advisor will provide counsel and advice to top management on significant matters, often requiring coordination between organizations. Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines. Recognized internally as \xe2\x80\x9cthe go-to person\xe2\x80\x9d for the most complex assignments.

Must be a current contractor with Cigna, Express Scripts, or Evernorth. Evernorth is a new business within the Cigna Corporation.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage team-level intake process for inbound product/service requests.
• Partner with engineering leads and delivery managers to perform backlog grooming, decomposition, prioritization, and sequencing of work based on value & strategic alignment.
• Drive PI planning and continuous planning throughout each PI in partnership with key stakeholders.
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate cross-functional interdependencies between teams - reprioritize work based on scope/schedule changes accordingly.
• Establish capacity management approach and manage team capacity, escalating risks/issues around resource availability as needed.
• Regularly review Agile metrics to develop insights and recommend actions that drive operational efficiency for engineering teams.
• Contribute to road-mapping sessions and encourage long term planning (3mo. - 3yr.)
• Facilitate team-level retrospectives to identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Continuously develop functional-level product/service knowledge and understand product/service business value.

Qualifications

• High School diploma; Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principles
• 5+ years of experience in a product management role, preferably experience in the IT Infrastructure field.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including meeting facilitation.
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively, which includes planning, organizing, and prioritizing with attention to details.
• High degree of comfort in a fast-paced/ambiguous environment
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-directed, requires minimal supervision.
• Creative thinker with an ability to drive the team to a vision.
• Technical background with knowledge of software development.
• Experience in the following tools is desirable \xe2\x80\x93 Agile (JIRA/Rally), collaboration tools (Confluence, SharePoint, WebEx, etc), and Visio.

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.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we\xe2\x80\x99re 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.

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.

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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