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Senior Principal, Enterprise Strategy & Strategic Opportunities

Cigna

Bloomfield, CTPrincipal
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Location
Bloomfield, CT
Work model
On-Site
Level
Principal
Posted
Sep 18, 2026

About this role

The Senior Principal, Enterprise Strategy & Strategic Opportunities is a senior leader within Enterprise Strategy, Ventures & Innovation responsible for shaping and advancing high-value enterprise and business strategies. The role will own a portfolio of consequential opportunities and unresolved strategic questions, with primary focus on critical problem solving, business opportunities, and new growth and business innovation. The Senior Principal will turn broad, ambiguous questions into clear strategic choices, opportunity cases, and executive-ready recommendations that drive enterprise value. The Senior Principal will also provide senior leadership capacity across the broader Enterprise Strategy agenda, including enterprise strategic positioning and competitive strategy and enterprise-choice work, long-term enterprise strategy and strategic priorities strategy development, and selected strategic planning priorities. The role will operate across enterprise trade-offs, portfolio implications, and cross-business opportunities, regularly engaging ELT members, business unit and corporate function and shared services leaders, and other senior stakeholders. Two positions may be hired against this common role profile, with portfolios flexed over time based on enterprise priorities, individual strengths, and demand. This leader is expected to combine strong external orientation, strategic judgment, commercial insight, and the ability to lead through influence. The Senior Principal will autonomously drive major bodies of work, mobilize cross-functional teams, build trusted relationships across the enterprise, and serve as a thought partner to senior leadership on opportunities, risks, and new solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Opportunities & Critical Problem Solving Own a portfolio of the most important unresolved enterprise or business questions and convert broad asks into structured, decision-ready strategic options. Identify and evaluate growth opportunities, strategic adjacencies, partnerships, capability plays, and business development pathways that can create meaningful enterprise value. Lead rigorous problem framing, issue-tree development, strategic and economic analysis, scenario assessment, and recommendation development. Clarify enterprise trade-offs, value-creation logic, risks, dependencies, and execution requirements for senior leadership decisions. Mobilize and lead cross-functional teams and flexible strategy pods, maintaining pace, quality, and alignment from question definition through leadership decision. New Growth and Business Innovation Shape new growth and business innovation strategies that create new growth, strengthen scaled core businesses, or evolve future business models. Identify opportunities where new propositions, channels, partnerships, technologies, capabilities, or combinations of enterprise assets can improve customer value, economics, growth, or long-term advantage. Develop innovation and opportunity theses, future-state models, growth platforms, and incubation or investment logic. Partner with business units, innovation, Corporate Development, Finance, and enterprise leaders to pressure-test concepts, build opportunity cases, and determine which ideas merit further investment or action. Move beyond idea identification by defining the strategic path, critical choices, evidence requirements, and early actions needed to advance priority opportunities. Enterprise Strategic Positioning, Long-Term Strategy & Enterprise Direction Support Lead or support high-consequence enterprise strategic positioning and competitive strategy and enterprise-choice work involving where the enterprise plays, where value shifts, which moves matter, and what trade-offs leadership must make. Help steward and advance long-term enterprise strategy and strategic priorities by translating the enterprise direction into sharper choices, priorities, guardrails, growth hooks, and implications for businesses and corporate

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