Director of Risk Management

Role Overview

• Play a key role in adapting, monitoring, and implementing the market strategy.
• Provide useful risk and financial insights to help make better decisions and execute the market strategy.
• Interact effectively both internally and externally, and be viewed as a trusted business advisor.
• Support the market with key risk and financial information and analytics.
• Drive a culture of accountability in managing the business.
• Voice well-substantiated dissenting opinions.
• Share market P&L accountability for the local market with MGL and market’s Senior DRM / Managing Director.
• Support management process that measures and analyzes results, initiates corrective actions, and minimizes the impact of variances to ensure P&L goals are achieved.
• Study financial trends to identify revenue, cost reduction, return on investment, profit, and improvement opportunities.
• Hold matrix and market partners accountable to taking actions and making decisions that ensure targets are achieved.
• Provide useful risk and financial insights to make better decisions about formulating and executing business strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 8+ years of underwriting, finance or related experience
• Experienced people manager with a proven track record of building effective teams, as well as motivating and developing others
• History of consistently delivering business results and achieving production goals
• Ability to work effectively in dynamic, rapidly changing, team-based environment
• Strong creative thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills
• Ability to create vision and purpose
• Innovative and creative thinker who develops and recommends thoughtful solutions to complex issues, and drives toward win-win solutions w/ an execution focus
• Demonstrated track record of leading organizations through business model changes with proven results
• Ability to foster collaboration, value others perspectives and gain support and buy-in for organizational proposals
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Strong emotional intelligence, leadership skills, and executive presence
• Proven ability to function and thrive in a heavily matrixed environment
• Ability to drive consistent processes across multiple locations.
• Some travel required (25%)

Benefits

• Cigna cannot optimize outcomes without creating value for our customers and clients.
• Hire and retain top grade talent.
• Develop and inspire the team to achieve next level performance.
• Update job knowledge, seek educational opportunities, read relevant industry and local market news, maintain professional networks, participate in professional organizations.