About Cigna Healthcare
Cigna Healthcare is a global health service company dedicated to transforming healthcare. With roots in the U.S. and operations in over 30 countries, we serve more than 180 million customers and patients worldwide. Ranked 13th on the Fortune 500 in 2025, Cigna is recognized as one of the most trusted and influential names in the industry.
Our mission is to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind of those we serve.
Join our globally recognized brand, where trust, communication, and a positive culture are at the core of everything we do. Our leadership is consistent, approachable, and supportive—ensuring your well-being and work-life balance.
We’re looking for individuals who thrive in collaborative environments, are passionate about meaningful change, and want to grow in a company that puts people first.
At Cigna, you’ll be part of a purpose-driven team that values innovation, compassion, and impact. Whether you're shaping better care experiences or supporting customers through life’s key moments, your work will matter.
Grow with us—and help shape the future of healthcare.
About The Role
The Project Manager leads the end-to-end delivery of small to complex, business initiatives and Epics, driving business readiness across multiple business and technology teams to achieve measurable outcomes on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards. This role can be based in either or Glasgow or Greenock office.
Operating within an agile delivery model, the role partners closely with Product, Technology, Operations, and Enterprise functions and works with senior stakeholders to shape delivery strategy, manage risk, and enable informed and effective decision‑making.
The successful candidate will be a high-performing individual who is methodical, inquisitive and has a passion for delivering business change across a global organisation.
You'll Be Responsible For:
- Owning end-to-end delivery of Epics, projects across business and technology domains, from initiation through transition into business-as-usual
- Driving business readiness, ensuring all business and non-IT deliverables are planned, owned, and delivered alongside technology outcomes
- Developing, maintaining, and actively managing integrated delivery plans, tracking progress against agreed outcomes, milestones, budget, and quality standards
- Establishing and maintaining strong delivery governance, including RAID management, reporting cadence, metrics, and decision forums
- Acting as the primary escalation point for business sponsors, senior stakeholders, and delivery partners
- Building and sustaining trusted relationships across business, operations, Product, Technology, and Enterprise functions/stakeholders
- Leading, motivating, and coordinating matrixed, virtual, and globally distributed teams across multiple workstreams
- Clearly defining roles, responsibilities, dependencies, and expectations to enable effective execution
- Owning financial management activities including support of business cases/cost benefit analysis and alignment to approved business cases ensuring linkages to the financial plan, budgets
- Identifying delivery risks, issues, and dependencies early, proposing and driving mitigation and trade-off options to protect value
- Chairing or contributing to Steering Committee and senior leadership forums, providing clear, outcome-focused updates and decision support
- Championing agile and SAFe ways of working while flexing delivery approach to suit business context, including Waterfall where required
- Driving consistent use of delivery standards, tools, and metrics (e.g. Jira, MS Project, reporting dashboards, project management methodologies)
- Contributing to feasibility assessments, solution options, and strategic decision-making as required
- Identifying and leading continuous improvement opportunities across delivery practices, governance, and operating models
What You'll Bring to the Role:
- Bachelor’s degree in business or related field
- Knowledge of, qualifications and/or certifications in standard project management methodologies (PMP, MSP, Prince2, SAFe or equivalent)
- Previous experience in Epic / Program / Project Management and proven ability to deliver within different methodologies i.e. Agile, Iterative & Incremental, Waterfall
- Healthcare, insurance, or regulated-industry experience preferred but not essential
- Experience working across global regions and cultures
- Proven experience delivering complex projects, programmes, or Epics in a matrix organisation
- Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional and virtual teams
- Strong financial management and governance capability
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and executive communication skills
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office tools; familiarity with Jira and delivery tooling
- Proven ability to drive adoption and continual process improvement.
- Good understanding of IT delivery “ways of working” with multiple Scrum Teams and Release Trains is desirable but not a must.
Why You'll Love Working Here
- Competitive salary
- Multicultural and hybrid working environment
- Private Medical Insurance
- Employee Wellbeing Benefits
Educational Development Program
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: [email protected] for support. Do not email [email protected] for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field
- Knowledge of or certifications in project management methodologies (PMP, MSP, Prince2, SAFe or equivalent)
- Proven experience in Epic / Program / Project Management and delivering across Agile, Iterative/Incremental and Waterfall methodologies
- Proven experience delivering complex projects or programmes in a matrix organisation
- Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional and virtual teams
- Strong financial management and governance capability (business cases, budgets, cost benefit analysis)
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and executive communication skills
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office tools
- Familiarity with Jira and delivery tooling
- Good understanding of IT delivery ways of working with multiple Scrum Teams and Release Trains
- Experience working across global regions and cultures
- Healthcare, insurance, or regulated-industry experience
Cigna Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cigna and has not been reviewed or approved by Cigna.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Strong bonus outcomes are frequently highlighted, with annual bonuses described as really good alongside above-average salary levels. Stock or long-term incentive elements are also noted as part of the overall package in some roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are portrayed as a meaningful part of total rewards, including generous PTO and flexibility that can enhance the perceived value of compensation. Flexible work-from-home arrangements are repeatedly linked with satisfaction about the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad in design, with preventive care often covered at no charge in-network and options like virtual care and wellness incentives. A large provider network and strong digital tools are positioned as practical advantages when using benefits.
Cigna Insights
What We Do
At Cigna, we're more than a health insurance company. We are your partner in total health and wellness. And we’re here for you 24/7 – caring for your body and mind. As a global health service company, Cigna's mission is to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind of those we serve by making health care simple, affordable, and predictable. Our values are the core of our culture. Our values guide how all 74,000 of us around the world work together, serve our customers, patients, clients, communities, and deliver on our mission.
