Overview

The Program & Reporting Principal is accountable for integrated program execution, performance transparency, and leadership-ready insights across the Enterprise Efficiency & Effectiveness portfolio. This role ensures senior leaders have one trusted, consistent view of progress, risks, dependencies, and—most critically—value delivery.

This role elevates reporting from traditional status tracking to decision enabling insight, connecting execution, outcomes, and financial impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the master integrated plan across all E&E initiatives, workstreams, and enabling functions.
• Ensure disciplined tracking of actions, decisions, and follow-ups.
• Manage cross-initiative dependencies, sequencing, and critical path to protect delivery timelines and value realization.
• Design and own the E&E reporting framework across all governance channels. Translate complex data into clear, concise, executive-ready insights. Anticipate leadership questions and proactively surface insights and recommendations.
• Partner with Finance, Value Realization, and Business Owners to:
  • Track benefits against plan
  • Highlight risks to value realization or timing
  • Reconcile operational progress with financial outcomes
• Work with lever enablers such as procurement, data/analytics, HR and GSO office for their execution of initiatives

• Integrate Execution (SWAT) Team and Lever owners (such as Procurement, HR and Data and Analytics) with governance routines. Ensure teams have resources and sponsorship for delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in program management, transformation PMO, or enterprise delivery roles.
• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives in large organizations.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen with the ability to link execution metrics to value.
• Exceptional executive communication and storytelling skills.
• Experience with enterprise reporting and planning tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, Jira, Planview, or equivalent).

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 127,300 - 212,100 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 and long term incentive 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 and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re 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.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.