Hybrid Senior Agile Product Manager

at The Cigna Group

• Job title: Senior Agile Product Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $116,200 - $193,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Agile Product Manager managing Epic delivery activities across Agile Release Trains in Healthcare. Reporting on progress and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure success criteria are met.

Responsibilities

• Works with the Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Experience Group Owners (Product Management) to initiate the delivery activities necessary to realize the business benefits of the Epic
• Ongoing responsibilities for stewardship and follow-up of initiated Epics, ensuring the defined success criteria is realized
• Works with stakeholders and subject matter experts (SMEs) to define the Epic and its potential benefits, establishes the Cost of Delay (CoD), and identifies business sponsors; responsible for acceptance of the Epics
• Works with the delivery teams to size the Epic and provide input to the economic prioritization based on a Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) model
• Provides guidance to the ART(s) on the Epic context of the target Features
• Participates in Program Increment (PI) Planning, System Demo, and Solution Demo when critical to the Epic
• Reports on progress of the Epic to the sponsoring Stakeholder Owner
• Works with Agile teams that perform research spikes, creates proof of concepts, mock-ups, etc.
• Serves as a SME for system development and/or enhancement projects for new or existing applications/processes
• Can think about the 'What' and how it impacts the 'How'
• Supports business readiness activities

Requirements

• Past experience working with technology teams, or the ability and interest to learn how to work with technology teams
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 7 years plus years experience in Healthcare environment required
• Working knowledge of claim systems, billing and banking systems preferred
• Ability to translate business needs into actionable business rules and requirements
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Must have strong business skills and experience, with in depth understanding of business
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment
• Strong collaboration, negotiation and leadership skills
• Ability and experience working across different functional areas in a matrix environment
• Ability to think critically with respect to improvement of end-to-end business process
• Proven ability to foster collaboration, value others perspectives, and gain support and buy-in for organizational proposals.
• Ensures Accountability, can Drives Results Action Oriented Good Decision Quality
• Agile experience required
• 25% travel

Benefits

• Health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs.
• 401(k)
• Company paid life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year
• Paid holidays