**EXPECTATIONS:** This role partners with the sales team and requires travel to client offices based on location. This role is aligned to South Texas. **OVERVIEW** The Nurse Executive Sales Specialist is a trusted clinical leader, educator, and advocate, closely aligned with clients, brokers, and key stakeholders to promote improved healthcare quality and affordability. This role executes strategic priorities to meet Cigna Healthcare U.S. Sales Growth, Persistency, and Total Medical Cost targets. **Key Responsibilities** + Stay current with healthcare industry trends and maintain working knowledge of Cigna business segment strategies, clinical programs, services, and operational processes. + Provide consultative clinical insights to Sales, Clients, Brokers, and other stakeholders. + Foster collaborative relationships with Sales, Sales Operations, Clients, and Brokers, championing Cigna’s differentiated clinical value proposition. + Support business growth targets, including prospective review, RFPs, finalist meetings, and new client onboarding. + Support business persistence targets, including medical cost driver analysis, complex case review, referral and engagement, account renewal consultation, and recommendations to positively impact medical cost trend, healthcare quality, and outcomes. + Collaborate across business units to design and deliver innovative client and market-specific solutions. + Participate in cross-functional projects to improve organizational or enterprise effectiveness and affordability. + Facilitate client and broker external engagements (health forums, community/worksite events, educational presentations, corporate tours, etc.), promoting Cigna’s integrated value proposition. + Respond to and facilitate resolution of escalated case inquiries, benefit and coverage explanations, and non-standard client benefit requests. **Qualifications** + Active and unrestricted nursing license in state of residence (required). + BSN required; advanced degree preferred. + Minimum of three (3) years of clinical practice experience. + Proven industry experience in a health sector-related field (Health Insurance, Healthcare Professional/Delivery System Entities, Allied Health Industry, Pharmaceutical Sales, Medical Sales a plus). + Strong leadership, organizational, critical thinking, and execution skills. + Broad-based thinker with a solid understanding of population health approaches for employers. + Ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment. + Proven ability to foster, influence, and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders. + Excellent oral and written communication skills. + Proficient in presenting in multiple forums, both internally and externally. + Skilled in using Microsoft and technology/software applications. + Requires intermittent travel up to 50% of the time. **Equal Opportunity Statement** **Cigna is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.** **Accessibility Statement** **If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact our recruiting team.** If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload. **About Cigna Healthcare** Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives. _Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws._ _If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email:_ _SeeYourself@cigna.com_ _for support. Do not email_ _SeeYourself@cigna.com_ _for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response._ _The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State._ _Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner_ _consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances._