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Strategic Planning Senior Director
Job in
Bloomfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, 06002, USA
Listed on 2026-08-31
Listing for:
The Cigna Group
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-08-31
Job specializations:
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Business
Corporate Strategy, Business Analyst, Change Management
Job Description & How to Apply Below
* ** Enterprise Strategy (part of Enterprise Strategy, Ventures & Innovation)*
* ** Position Summary*
* The Strategic Planning Senior Director is a senior leadership role responsible for driving enterprise strategic planning and ensuring alignment of strategic priorities across businesses, functions, and enterprise initiatives. This individual will work at the intersection of strategy, finance, governance, and transformation, partnering with executive leadership to shape long-term priorities, align investments, and translate strategy into measurable business outcomes.
The role requires exceptional stakeholder management, executive influence, and the ability to navigate a complex, matrixed organization. In addition to leading the enterprise strategic planning function, this individual will serve as a leader across the enterprise strategy function, helping connect strategy, planning, and execution through strong partnership, governance, and organizational alignment.
Beyond strategy formulation, the leader plays a critical role in ensuring enterprise priorities are translated into action by working across business segments, functions, and leadership teams. In partnership with leaders responsible for strategy execution and transformation, this role helps operationalize enterprise strategic priorities by strengthening alignment, driving cross-functional collaboration, and connecting strategy to execution, investment decisions, and measurable outcomes.
The Senior Director serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and champions an enterprise-wide perspective that enables the organization to deliver differentiated value for customers, clients, providers, and shareholders.
** Key Responsibilities*
* ** Enterprise Strategy Leadership*
* + Drive the annual enterprise strategic planning process, ensuring alignment across business, functional, financial, and portfolio planning processes.
+ Coordinate development of multi-year strategic plans and strategy-linked financials across growth platforms, businesses, and enabling functions.
+ Partner with Finance to integrate strategic priorities, financial scenarios, capital allocation considerations, and funding decisions.
+ Facilitate planning forums, financial assumption reviews, cross-functional alignment sessions, and executive governance meetings.
+ Synthesize business inputs into enterprise-level strategic insights, planning materials, executive presentations, and Board-ready communications.
+ Identify, frame, and address critical strategic questions facing the enterprise through rigorous analysis and executive-level recommendations.
+ Monitor emerging opportunities, risks, dependencies, and enterprise tradeoffs to support strategic decision-making and portfolio prioritization.
+ Lead continuous improvement of the strategic planning process, operating model, and stakeholder engagement approach.
** Strategy Activation & Execution*
* + Partner closely with transformation and execution leaders to translate enterprise strategy into actionable priorities, measurable outcomes, and enterprise-wide initiatives.
+ Help operationalize strategic objectives by aligning priorities across business segments, functions, and key enterprise initiatives.
+ Ensure strategic priorities are effectively cascaded throughout the organization and connected to execution, accountability, and value creation.
+ Support governance processes that connect strategy, resource allocation, portfolio management, and transformational investments.
** Cross-Enterprise Alignment & Collaboration*
* + Serve as a central connector across business units, functions, and enterprise teams to drive strategic alignment and coordinated action.
+ Build strong partnerships with leaders across business segments, corporate functions, and shared services organizations to advance shared priorities.
+ Champion an enterprise-first mindset by identifying opportunities for leverage, integration, and collaboration across organizational boundaries.
+ Facilitate alignment on enterprise decisions that require coordinated action across multiple stakeholder groups.
** Enterprise Strategy…
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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