About this Commercial Regulatory Strategist - Express Scripts - Hybrid role at The Cigna Group
Senior Advisor, Commercial Regulatory Strategist
Help Shape the Future of Commercial Healthcare Strategy
Are you energized by turning complex regulatory changes into meaningful business opportunities? As a Senior Advisor, Commercial Regulatory Strategist, you will play a key role in helping the organization navigate an evolving healthcare landscape while supporting growth, affordability, and client success. This is an opportunity to partner with leaders across the business, influence strategic decisions, and help create solutions that make healthcare better for employers and those they serve. We're looking for a collaborative, thoughtful professional who brings curiosity, business insight, and a passion for solving complex challenges.
Responsibilities
Drive Strategic Regulatory Guidance
- Translate federal and state regulatory, legislative, and policy developments into clear business recommendations that support commercial market priorities.
- Advise leaders on regulatory impacts, emerging trends, and market opportunities to support informed decision making and long-term growth.
- Help align regulatory requirements with business strategy, affordability goals, product priorities, and client needs.
Influence Business and Market Strategy
- Lead regulatory impact assessments, market evaluations, and competitive analyses that inform product positioning, client strategies, and growth opportunities.
- Partner with sales, account management, product, clinical, operations, legal, compliance, and government affairs teams to develop practical, compliant solutions.
- Support client retention, expansion opportunities, RFP strategies, and finalist presentations by providing commercial regulatory expertise.
Enable Enterprise Readiness and Innovation
- Represent commercial regulatory perspectives in solution development, strategic initiatives, and market readiness efforts.
- Develop executive-ready presentations, issue briefs, and client-facing materials that simplify complex topics and drive action.
- Balance multiple priorities while delivering high-quality work in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in commercial health plan strategy, pharmacy benefit management, healthcare consulting, regulatory strategy, public policy, compliance, legal, or a related client-facing healthcare role.
- Strong understanding of commercial healthcare markets, employer-sponsored health coverage, pharmacy benefit management, and state and federal regulatory frameworks.
- Ability to analyze complex regulatory and market information and translate findings into actionable business guidance.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create executive-level and client-facing materials.
- Proven ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders, and collaborate effectively across a matrixed organization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Public Policy, Pharmacy, or a related field.
- Advanced degree in a related discipline.
- Experience supporting commercial employer-sponsored healthcare clients.
- Experience presenting strategic recommendations to senior leaders or external clients.
- Knowledge of healthcare affordability strategies, compliance considerations, and market trends affecting pharmacy benefit management.
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.For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 126,300 - 210,500 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.
This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.
At The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.
About Evernorth Health Services
Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. 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 need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email [email protected] for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.
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.
Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.
