Hybrid Business Product Owner Manager

at The Cigna Group

• Job title: Business Product Owner Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $100,700 - $167,800 per year
• Degree requirement: High School Diploma
• Location requirements: Hybrid, St Louis, United States

About the role

• Business Product Owner Manager managing a team and executing enterprise-wide initiatives at Cigna Group. Ensuring stakeholder alignment, coaching, and product ownership within agile frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Manages a team of new initiative product owners, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, and talent assessments
• Trains the team on how to partner with key stakeholders to clarify and refine business requirements in partnership with business sponsors, Solution Architects and Capability Business Product Owners
• Fosters a culture of emotional intelligence, critical thinking, and passion/drive individually and collectively
• Intervenes on escalations from your team to guide discussions with cross-functional teams to ensure business intent is accurately captured into technical design
• Innovates to improve team member and organizational effectiveness while managing their team’s health
• Allocates people to projects thoughtfully to meet business stakeholder needs, product area strengths and business priorities
• Promotes collaboration across cross-functional teams and ensure alignment with enterprise objectives
• Sets clear goals and expectations, monitor progress, and provide feedback to support career growth
• Helps to determine project prioritization and remove obstacles from your initiative BPOs projects
• Acts as a strategic liaison among business sponsors, architects and capability business product owners ensuring smooth management of stakeholder relationships and business requirements
• Develops deep relationships with key business stakeholders that your team will interact with daily
• Communicates progress and updates regularly to stakeholders when needed

Requirements

• High school diploma required; Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 3+ years of experience in relationship management, product ownership, or architecture
• Prior experience managing direct reports or leading teams preferred
• Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, and organizational skills
• Solid knowledge of agile methodology and tools (e.g., Jira)
• Demonstrated business, technical, and financial acumen
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong problem-solving capabilities and comfort with ambiguity

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs
• 401(k) with company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• A minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays