# Senior Manager, Medicaid & Marketplace Client Strategy

**Company**: Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 140,300 - 233,800 USD / yearly
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As the Senior Manager, Medicaid & Marketplace Client Strategy, you will lead a team of healthcare strategists who turn evolving policy, regulatory, quality, affordability, and market developments into actionable business strategies.

In this highly visible leadership role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to health plan and PBM clients, helping executives make informed decisions, anticipate change, and achieve their business goals.

**Responsibilities**

**Lead Strategic Client Partnerships**

- Serve as a trusted advisor to Medicaid and Marketplace clients, delivering strategic guidance that helps them navigate industry change and achieve business objectives.

- Translate complex healthcare policy, regulatory, quality, affordability, and market developments into clear recommendations and actionable strategies.

- Facilitate executive-level discussions that support informed decision making and drive client success.

- Anticipate emerging trends, opportunities, and risks and proactively advise clients on business implications.

**Drive Market Intelligence and Business Insights**

- Monitor and interpret federal and state policy, legislative, and regulatory developments affecting Medicaid, Marketplace, and related healthcare markets.

- Deliver concise, decision-ready insights that help clients and internal partners respond strategically to industry changes.

- Contribute to organizational perspectives and recommendations that strengthen client outcomes and market positioning.

**Support Client Growth and Organizational Success**

- Partner with Account Management and cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that create measurable value for clients.

- Strengthen client relationships through strategic consultation, thought leadership, and collaborative problem solving.

- Represent the organization in client meetings, executive presentations, and industry engagements.

**Develop Talent and Build High-Performing Teams**

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of strategists while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous growth.

- Strengthen team capabilities in strategic thinking, executive communication, consulting, and problem solving.

- Create an environment where curiosity, learning, and knowledge sharing are encouraged and rewarded.

**Influence Across the Organization**

- Build strong partnerships across business functions to advance strategic priorities.

- Influence stakeholders and drive alignment in complex and evolving environments.

- Balance competing priorities while maintaining focus on client and business outcomes.

**Qualifications**

**Required**

- 7+ years of experience in healthcare strategy, healthcare consulting, Medicaid, Marketplace, Medicare, PBM, healthcare policy, regulatory affairs, government affairs, or a related healthcare environment.

- Experience leading, coaching, and developing teams.

- Experience working directly with clients, senior leaders, or executive stakeholders.

- Strong strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable recommendations.

- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.

- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and build strong partnerships.

- Strong business acumen and understanding of healthcare market dynamics.

- Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt in a fast-changing environment.

- Willingness to travel up to 25%.

**Preferred**

- Bachelor's degree or advanced degree in a related field.

- Health plan experience supporting Medicaid, Marketplace, or Medicare lines of business.

- PBM experience.

- Healthcare strategy consulting experience.

- Experience in public policy, legislative affairs, regulatory affairs, or government relations.

- Experience developing executive-level presentations, recommendations, and strategic business cases.

- Experience using data, market intelligence, and industry insights to guide strategic decisions.

The anticipated annual salary for this role is 140,300 - 233,800 USD, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

Benefits include medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs, 401(k), company-paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.

## Skills

### Required
- healthcare strategy
- healthcare consulting
- Medicaid
- Marketplace
- Medicare
- PBM
- healthcare policy
- regulatory affairs
- government affairs
- strategic thinking
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- communication skills
- influencing skills
- business acumen

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree or advanced degree
- health plan experience
- PBM experience
- healthcare strategy consulting experience
- public policy experience
- legislative affairs experience
- regulatory affairs experience
- government relations experience
- executive-level presentations
- data analysis
- market intelligence

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