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PBM Strategy Intern

Cigna St. Louis, MO Hybrid entry internship

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Description

We are seeking a PBM Strategy Intern to join our team for a 10-week paid internship. As an intern, you will gain exposure to the healthcare industry while working alongside experienced professionals across strategy, business development, and cross-functional partner teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Support PBM Strategy and Business Development initiatives related to market insights, competitive intelligence, business performance, and cross-functional strategy execution.
  • Help coordinate project plans, timelines, meeting materials, status updates, and follow-ups for assigned strategy initiatives.
  • Contribute to project planning and execution by gathering information, organizing inputs, documenting key decisions, and helping translate ideas into clear next steps.
  • Identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting, communications, or stakeholder workflows in a healthcare business environment, and offer practical recommendations to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners to support strategy enablement, sales enablement, and communication materials that help teams align key business priorities.

What you will learn: During the internship, you will build a stronger understanding of the PBM industry, healthcare market dynamics, enterprise strategy, stakeholder management, executive communication, and how strategic priorities are translated into action across a complex organization.

Benefits:

  • Structured experience that connects academic learning with practical, real-world business and healthcare work.
  • Opportunities to meet business and healthcare professionals.
  • Volunteer opportunities to make a difference in the community.
  • Career development and learning opportunities.
  • Networking opportunities across the organization to prepare for a full-time career.

Qualifications:

  • A self-starter who is eager to learn and acquire new skills.
  • Strong business acumen and analytical skills.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
  • Effective time management and organization skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, executive-facing environment where discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment are important.
  • Strong relationship-building skills.

Preferred skills and interests:

  • Curiosity about healthcare, pharmacy benefits, strategy, consulting, public policy, finance, analytics, or business operations.
  • Comfort working with ambiguous information; ability to synthesize information into clear written or visual materials.
  • Interest in learning how large healthcare organizations make strategic decisions.

Eligibility:

  • Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree and entering junior or senior year by summer 2027, preferably in business, finance, economics, data science, public health, life sciences, healthcare administration, or another related field.
  • Prefer cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.
  • Candidates must be eligible for employment in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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