The successful candidate will provide the "voice of the customer" at the team level to their Scrum/Kanban team. This individual will utilize their strong business and technical skills and experience to manage their team's intake of work, as well as prioritize delivery and maximize business value being delivered by their Scrum/Kanban team. In addition, they must be able to work collaboratively as part of a larger technology organization empowered to deliver innovative solutions to the marketplace.

Core duties of the role will include:

• Understands key business objectives and strategy of the product
• Works with business owners to ensure that they are engaged and supportive of direction
• Collaborates with Product Owners to ensure their prioritization is reflected in the team's backlog
• Has final decision-making authority on acceptance criteria for product functions
• Maintains and refines the inflow of work to the team (product backlog)
• Assists the team with decomposing features/epics into user stories and acceptance criteria
• Assesses business value and prioritizes all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with strategy
• Ensures stories clearly communicate customer/stakeholder needs to the Scrum/Kanban team; work with team to clarify stories as necessary
• Understands and supports inter-team dependencies and escalates prioritization issues when necessary
• Sets and communicates the team's scope for the current iteration.
• Attends team and program ceremonies (e.g. Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, PI Planning, Retrospectives, Demos)
• Works with team members to ensure products are working in production

Qualifications:

Exemplifies teamwork and serves as role model. Ability to successfully facilitate collaboration across multiple functions, departments and levels.

• Demonstrates ability to obtain expert-level proficiency in multiple technologies
• Aptitude for gaining deep knowledge of the industry and business, and proactively using this knowledge to delivery meaningful results
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical partners
• Strong technical skillset and experience with data strategy, data flow, data modeling, development and testing
• 1+ years of experience in working with product they will be Agile Product Manager for (e.g. Pharmacy Data)
• 1+ years of experience in an IT environment
• Experience with Agile development required;
• Agile certification is a plus (i.e. SAFe Product Manager / Product Owner)
• Understands key business objectives and strategy of the product
• Must be a current contractor with Cigna, Express Scripts, or Evernorth. Evernorth is a new business within the Cigna Corporation.

About Cigna

Cigna Corporation exists to improve lives. We are a global health service company dedicated to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve. Together, with colleagues around the world, we aspire to transform health services, making them more affordable and accessible to millions. Through our unmatched expertise, bold action, fresh ideas and an unwavering commitment to patient-centered care, we are a force of health services innovation. When you work with us, or one of our subsidiaries, you'll enjoy meaningful career experiences that enrich people's lives. What difference will you make?

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.

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