**Information Protection Lead Analyst - HIH - Evernorth** **Job description summary** As the Information Protection - Lead Analyst, you will report to the Chief of Staff of CIP- Portfolio Operations & International Health and play a pivotal role in our leadership team. Your strategic leadership, management, and execution will be instrumental in the development and implementation of our strategy. You will ensure the proper operational controls, communications, governance operations, and engagement actions are in place to effectively develop and meet our strategic priorities. **Job Responsibilities** + Total experience 5 - 8 years + Leadership Operations: Collaborate with the leadership team on all aspects of the day-to-day operating activities to drive execution against the most critical initiatives and represent the value story to partners; serve as a proxy for the organization’s leader as needed. + Strategy, Planning, and Execution: Works closely with cross-enterprise teams to ensure strategy development that will articulate the vision to achieve goals. Develop a multi-year roadmap with specific actions needed to achieve goals across all areas of our organization. Ensure that funding and resources are prioritized and commit to complete actions to resolve resource gaps. Monitor whether actions achieved intended goals and revise future strategy and plans. + Departmental/Functional Operations: Strategic planning and execution for our programs, including Steering Committees, regular team meetings, Town Halls, Extended Leadership meetings, and other needs. + Efficiency and simplification: Lead Analyst will work collaboratively with the team, looking for methods to improve quality, efficiency, and productivity, reduce costs, increase profits, or improve control measures. Their contribution to developing, improving, and simplifying systems, processes, controls, and procedures will significantly enhance the organization’s overall efficiency and ensure excellent client service. + Portfolio Communications: coordination with organization leaders on communications focused on building the perceived portfolio value, reputation, and visibility of our organization and its elements. + Domain- and BU-Specific Communications: Along with Departmental communications, lead the team responsible for sourcing and delivering strategic content related to Strategic and Operational priorities, using channels like newsletters, presentations, postcards, and more. + Agile Operations - Continue to drive agile maturity within the organization and optimize operating model while enabling a metrics-driven culture. + Communications & Engagement Operations—includes the function's operations, including Knowledge Management, annual meetings, reference materials, and coordination with corporate communications. + Executive/Leadership/Management Communications – Leader-specific communications for special applications like internal presentations, external speaking engagements, and publication opportunities. + Talent: Shared accountability along with other leaders and HR for optimizing aligned talent (working with the leadership team and matrix partners as appropriate): + Assess and ensure talent upgrade where and when necessary to ensure execution against our strategy; aggressively manage performance. + Ensure the creation and ongoing maintenance of a talent pipeline for critical roles **Qualifications and Competencies** + A bachelor’s degree is required; an advanced degree is highly desirable. + A seasoned, respected candidate with 5-8 years’ experience in a similar role and specific experience managing multiple aspects of business operations. + Demonstrated results in thinking strategically, anticipating future consequences and trends, and incorporating them into a short-term and long-term organizational plan. + **General Management** - Thorough understanding of finance, systems, and HR; broad experience with the full range of business functions and systems, including strategic development and planning, budgeting, business analysis, finance, information systems, human resources, and marketing. + **Comfortable with Ambiguity** - can effectively cope with change, shift gears comfortably, decide and act without having the total picture, and handle risk and uncertainty. + **Drive for Results** - Proven track record of exceeding goals and a bottom-line orientation; evidence of the ability to consistently make good decisions through a combination of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; high level of business acumen, including successful P&L management and the ability to balance the delivery of programs against the realities of a budget; allocates resources and manages operating expenses to maximize P&L while managing risk. + **Strategic Vision and Agility** - Ability to think strategically, anticipate future consequences and trends, and incorporate them into the organizational plan. + **Leadership and Organization** - Exceptional capacity for managing and leading people and cross-functional teams; a team builder who has experience in scaling up organizations; ability to connect staff both on an individual level and in large groups; capacity to enforce accountability, develop and empower top-notch leaders from the bottom up, lead from the top down, cultivate entrepreneurship, and learn the strengths and weaknesses of the team to put people in a position to succeed. + **Customer Focus -** Is dedicated to meeting clients' expectations and requirements; gets first-hand customer information and uses it to improve products and services; acts with customers in mind. + **Matrix Management/Relationship Building** – Enterprise thinker with proven ability to influence across a matrix environment. Ability to develop strong relationships across all levels of the organization and with external partners. + **Communication -** Strong persuasion and practical communication skills; ability to create and communicate a compelling vision internally and externally. + **Action Oriented** - Enjoys working hard and looking for challenges; able to act and react as necessary, even if limited information is available; not afraid to take charge of a situation; can overcome resistance to leadership and take unpopular stands when necessary. **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.