Legal Compliance Advisor, Individual Dental Operations - Cigna Healthcare - Remote

Summary The Legal Compliance Advisor is responsible for supporting regulatory compliance, governance, and implementation activities for the Individual Dental business. This role serves as a key operational partner to ensure federal and state regulatory requirements are accurately assessed, documented, communicated, implemented, and monitored across the Individual Dental organization. The Legal Compliance Advisor partners closely with Product, Operations, Government Affairs, Legal, Enterprise Compliance, Portfolio, Quality, and vendor partners to support regulatory readiness, ongoing compliance execution, risk mitigation, and operational governance. This role is accountable for coordinating regulatory implementation activities, maintaining compliance documentation and evidence, monitoring regulatory obligations, supporting audits and examinations, and identifying opportunities to strengthen compliance processes and controls. The position plays a critical role in ensuring Individual Dental maintains a sustainable and scalable regulatory compliance framework that supports business objectives while meeting regulatory and contractual obligations. Core Accountabilities & Responsibilities Regulatory Compliance Management Monitor federal and state regulatory requirements impacting the Individual Dental business. Assess new and evolving regulatory requirements to determine operational, product, process, and customer impacts. Partner with business stakeholders to ensure regulatory requirements are implemented timely and accurately. Coordinate regulatory implementation activities across operational and matrixed business partners. Support ongoing compliance with applicable regulatory, contractual, and business requirements. New Law Implementation (NLI) Governance Serve as a key participant in New Law Implementation processes supporting Individual Dental products. Analyze regulatory instructions and facilitate identification of impacted business areas. Coordinate implementation activities, timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder engagement associated with regulatory changes. Maintain documentation supporting regulatory assessments, implementation decisions, and compliance evidence. Monitor implementation progress and escalate risks, issues, or barriers impacting compliance readiness. Compliance Documentation & Evidence Management Maintain compliance documentation, regulatory inventories, process documentation, and evidence repositories. Coordinate collection, validation, and retention of documentation supporting regulatory compliance activities. Ensure compliance evidence is appropriately documented and available for audit, examination, or regulatory review. Support governance activities associated with compliance management systems and regulatory tracking tools. Identify opportunities to improve documentation standards, consistency, and accessibility. Regulatory Risk & Controls Oversight Identify and evaluate regulatory risks impacting the Individual Dental business. Partner with business owners to develop mitigation strategies and corrective action plans. Track compliance risks, issues, and remediation activities through resolution. Support monitoring activities designed to identify compliance gaps and control weaknesses. Communicate regulatory risks, trends, and emerging concerns to leadership and business partners. Product Availability Grid & Regulatory Governance Support governance and maintenance of Product Availability Grids and other regulatory reference materials. Validate alignment between regulatory requirements, filed products, operational processes, and business documentation. Partner with Product, Filing, and Operational teams to ensure regulatory consistency across business artifacts. Coordinate updates resulting from new regulatory requirements, business changes, or product modifications. Support ongoing accuracy, completeness, and governance of regulatory documentation. Audit, Examination & Regulatory Inquiry