Provider Product Owner Advisor (Finance)
As an enabler of Enterprise Strategic Priority - Medicare Advantage Growth, the DMOM program will drive a competitive administrative cost structure while delivering consistent, compliant operational performance. This will be accomplished through the implementation of a new operating model - transformation across people, process, and technology.
The Product Owner is a member of the Provider Data solutions team. The Product Owner is responsible for defining the vision, scope, and priority of the detailed requirements to be delivered by the Team and owns the user story prioritization in accordance with the Product Manager's priority requests. The Product Owner also reviews the quality of the product that the Team produces.
This individual will work with business, technology, and solution teams to define User Stories and prioritize the team backlog. This individual must possess strong understanding of their respective business processes and capabilities (listed below). This individual will be responsible for guiding the team on Story estimates and sequencing specific to Claims Provider, Pricing, and Capitation.
- Accountable for decomposing features into manageable pieces of work called User Stories
- Elaborate and refine the detailed requirements (User Stories)
- Prepare for and participate in sprint planning
- Promote acceptance test-driven development by engaging the team in defining story acceptance criteria
- Understand business and technical work being delivered by the team
- Participate in team demo and sprint retrospective
- Partner with the team to plan sprint demo
- Define and execute improvement stories
- Drive efforts to improve automation
- Utilize data to make informed business decisions to generate efficiencies
Technical Skill Requirements
- Expert level Medicare/Medicaid business knowledge across: Claims Provider, Pricing, and Capitation
- Expert-level knowledge of project and change management and associated methodologies, techniques, processes, and approaches (e.g. Project and Portfolio Management Methodology - PPM)
- Knowledge of Agile principles
- Budget, cost and profitability management skills
- Knowledge of resource management tools
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to juggle multiple goals and deadlines in the context of the big picture
- Team Leadership & Development: Ability to mentor, coach and effectively transfer expertise to others
- Facilitation, Negotiation & Problem Resolution Skills: Ability to build a strong network and relationships at executive levels with technology and solutions, customers and vendor groups
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.
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