Consultant Bid Strategist – Evernorth Health Services – Hybrid

Job Summary

The Consultant Bid Strategist role within Pitch & Consultant Bid Strategies is a strategic partner for Consultant Relations, Sales, Pricing, and various other internal and external stakeholders to create innovative, winning responses for all of our major consultant partners. You will be part of a team that drives consultant template strategy and execution, and will be responsible for developing and executing RFP content strategy for consultants and coalitions, supporting annual consultant meetings, and addressing general inquiries about our consultant responses. Additionally, this role will be responsible for leading multiple strategic, transformative process optimization initiatives with cross-functional partners to help us win in a crucial market for our business. The ideal candidate will have a background in sales consulting, strategic planning, project management, and/or content strategy and management, and be excellent at building strong, authentic relationships.

Essential Functions

• Develop deep understanding of market dynamics and consultant & coalition needs, and position RFP content to uniquely meet those needs
• Maintain and revise approximately 2,000 responses for our highest volume consultants
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of our RFP workflow and database management tool (Responsive), employ critical thinking to optimize consultant and coalition template structure within the tool, and drive greater efficiency and effortlessness into the proposal management process
• Ensure RFP questions and responses are accurate, client-appropriate, and meet departmental expectations by partnering closely with subject matter experts across the organization
• Regularly engage in complex conversations with leadership regarding Pricing & Sales strategy
• Build strong, deep relationships with key cross-functional partners
• Communicate strong points of view based on market insights, client feedback, and consultant guidance, and use that point of view to influence stakeholders in creating winning responses, while appropriately mitigating business risk
• Lead and execute process optimization initiatives as part of our department’s strategic transformation
• Support preparation and development for annual leadership meetings with
• Demonstrate strong written, verbal, and graphic communication skills to support interactions with VP-level colleagues
• Mentor and train new team members

Qualifications

• Strategic thinker with a passion for learning and understanding, with ability to connect dots and effectively translate internal descriptions and terminology into client-facing content
• Ability to conduct a thorough investigation into root cause of a problem, separate relevant facts from less essential or unnecessary data, and develop options and recommendation on a solution
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, successfully navigate ambiguity, and work independently with minimal guidance
• Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability to change
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent prioritization and time management skills
• Ability to plan for and integrate multiple tasks concurrently
• Experience in directing or working with multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to develop deep cross-functional relationships, both within day-to-day work activities and beyond directly-assigned tasks
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate tools, resources and people through to project completion
• Knowledge of PBM or healthcare industry preferred

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 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 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.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner

consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.

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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