Hybrid Product Development Director

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Product Development Director guiding innovation and partnerships at Evernorth Health Services to enhance healthcare solutions and market strategies. Overseeing a team to ensure product alignment with client needs.

Responsibilities

  • Overseeing a team of contracting and partner management experts who help to negotiate and manage existing and future partnerships.
  • Leading and directing the business negotiation strategy, ensuring partnerships are meeting business needs, and working across the enterprise for alignment with various matrix partners.
  • Determine prioritization of work for the team based on a variety of factors and ensure work is delivered on time to meet market and business needs.
  • Influence current and potential business stakeholders while developing a business case to drive the development and execution of new solutions inclusive of adding capabilities to existing solutions.
  • Can take complex models and plans and articulate into simple, effective and engaging visual communications.
  • Ensure solutions are adaptable to changing market needs and meet end buyer and users goals so they are attractive in market.
  • Lead and develop sales strategies that help differentiate Evernorth in the marketplace and align our interest with those of our clients and their members.
  • Deliver market message, product readiness, and training to sales, account teams, consultants, and brokers.
  • Ability to quickly forge strong partnerships at varying levels across the organization, including the ability to engage team members in innovation and input, both within the team and across functions.
  • Willingness to offer a unique point of view and respectfully challenge the status quo to help foster innovation and continuous improvement.
  • Coordinate with and influence cross-functional partners to provide support for clinical product, sales and account management as well as Clients from across the organization.
  • Is comfortable shifting focus from one priority to another when necessary, even if that means stopping mid-work to change directions.
  • Ability to generate thoughtful design, direction, and actions from ambiguous or unclear environments.
  • Coordinate with business and legal partners to determine legal, business and clinical appropriateness to develop and enhance program offerings.

Requirements

  • People leadership experience is a key asset.
  • Experience reading, reviewing, and editing business contracts is a critical function of this role and would be highly preferred.
  • Advanced problem solving skills with the ability to work cross-functionally to resolve issues and generate results among potentially conflicting constituencies.
  • Healthcare and business acumen with a tuned awareness to how clients buy and the pressures within the healthcare system.
  • Experience creating value-based pricing models in healthcare.
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage workload and meet project deadlines.
  • Ability to lead a team with a dynamic workload within an environment of tight deadlines and significant pressure.
  • Superior ability to work across all of The Cigna Group and learning about stakeholders businesses to continue to drive value in partnerships.
  • Experience working with vendors and managing external relationships a plus.
  • Experience in the art of engaging individuals through various channels to drive participation and satisfaction through the products we develop and launch.
  • Proven leadership ability to lead and manage cross-functionally with a command of a dynamic, multi-faceted product that can adapt to market needs.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to identify and influence key stakeholders.
  • Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio.
  • Ability to pick up computer applications quickly.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Paid time off

Job title

Product Development Director

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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