Marketing Operations Lead Analyst - Hybrid at Cigna in Bloomfield, Connecticut

Job Description:

Role Overview:

The Marketing Operations Center of Excellence (COE) is looking for a Marketing Operations Lead Analyst to provide financial management support to our Marketing organization. This individual will report directly to the Financial Operations lead and help manage our annual financial management process. This individual will be critical in supporting our Marketing teams across each of our business areas including Evernorth Business Marketing, US Employer Business Marketing, and our COEs on their monthly financial tracking, forecast projections and annual planning criteria.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Financial Ops lead in managing the Enterprise Marketing budget process


• Partner with the Marketing budget leads on a month basis to review pacing, discuss risks/opportunities and ensure budgets are being managed and tracked appropriately.


• Support the Financial Ops lead in aggregating quarterly projections.


• Partner with finance to aggregate budget pacing reports for quarterly meetings with our Marketing leadership teams.


• Support the onboarding of a new MarTech automation platform for budget tracking and forecasting for our organization.


• Identify process improvements within the Enterprise financial management process.


• Support our Strategy and Planning Operations lead with annual Marketing plans where financial support is required.


• Own and manage the creative production and working media purchase order submissions process and tracking with our Agency of Record.


• Supports Marketing Operations team in ad hoc special projects that require financial management support.

Core Qualifications/Competencies:

• 3-5+ years of experience in a marketing & operations environment


• Strong financial and operations background with an understanding of financial planning and management, budgeting and forecasting within a Marketing organization.


• Detail oriented, with excellent organizational skills


• Ability to work with efficiency, speed and accuracy while remaining dedicated to being results oriented.


• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills


• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, especially in Excel and PowerPoint


• Ability to foster collaboration, value others' perspectives and gain support throughout the organization


• Self-starter with an ability to lead, influence and/or indirectly manage up or down as necessary


• Goal-oriented and personally accountable; resourceful and self-directed


• Ability to work from a Cigna office 50% of the time, and participate in quarterly travel as needed for department meetings

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 The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we're dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. 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.