Description
POSITION SUMMARY
The Client & Customer Experience (C&CE) organization is responsible for the servicing of Cigna customers across multiple lines of business. Within C&CE, the Learning & Knowledge Management arm of Operational Excellence supports the capabilities, tools, and information employees need to serve customers accurately and effectively.
The Business Analytics Manager leads a small analytics team that supports Learning & Knowledge Management by delivering high-quality analytics, trusted data, reporting solutions, and lightweight digital solutions. This is a player-coach role for a people leader who remains hands-on in analytics or data engineering, while guiding the work and development of Business Analytics Advisors.
A critical aspect of this role is partnering with business leaders to identify opportunities, define problems, and translate ambiguous business challenges into actionable analytical and technology work. The Business Analytics Manager works closely with Learning, Knowledge Management, Operational Excellence, Operations, analytics, and technology partners to shape priorities, guide delivery, and improve learner readiness, knowledge effectiveness, and operational performance.
This is a fully remote opportunity for candidates in select geographies. Candidates who reside within 50 miles of the following locations will be required to perform onsite 3 days per week: Bloomfield, CT; Chattanooga, TN; Denver, CO; Scottsdale, AZ.; St. Louis, MO.
Team Leadership & Delivery
Lead, coach, and develop a team of Business Analytics Advisors
Establish clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and support individual development through coaching, skill building, and growth opportunities
Partner with the Product Owner to align team work to the prioritized backlog and business objectives
Provide day-to-day guidance on analytical approaches, technical solutions, delivery plans, and stakeholder communication
Balance workload across the team, remove barriers, manage dependencies, and personally contribute to delivery when needed
Ensure work products meet appropriate standards for quality, governance, documentation, security, and maintainability
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, quality, and sustainable delivery
Business Consulting & Partnership
Serve as a trusted advisor to Learning, Knowledge Management, Operational Excellence, and Operations leaders, building strong relationships and understanding their strategies, priorities, and challenges
Proactively engage stakeholders to surface new ideas and identify opportunities for analytics, data, automation, reporting, and lightweight technology solutions
Lead discovery conversations to understand business needs, processes, pain points, constraints, desired outcomes, and the decisions solutions must support
Gather and clarify business, data, reporting, and functional requirements, distinguishing underlying needs from requested solutions
Translate ambiguous business challenges into clearly defined, actionable analytics and technology work
Align stakeholder groups on priorities, scope, outcomes, responsibilities, and measures of success
Help business partners prioritize initiatives based on impact, feasibility, dependencies, and capacity, connecting needs to product, analytics, data, and technology roadmaps
Communicate recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and practical solution approaches in straightforward business language
Analytics & Data Analysis
Independently perform advanced analytics and investigation work for complex or high-priority initiatives
Guide development of metrics, KPIs, and measurement frameworks that support Learning & Knowledge objectives
Combine learning, workforce, quality, knowledge, and operational data to identify trends, drivers, gaps, risks, and opportunities
Connect learning experiences and knowledge usage to downstream outcomes such as proficiency, quality, customer experience, handle time, and escalation behavior
Review analytical approaches and outputs to ensure findings are accurate, clearly communicated, and actionable
Communicate findings through concise written summaries, visualizations, presentations, and recommendations tailored to business partners
Data Ingestion, Transformation & Quality
Design, build, and oversee repeatable data ingestion and ETL processes that bring together information from learning platforms, knowledge tools, operational systems, and structured manual sources
Contribute directly to complex data integration, transformation, validation, or troubleshooting work when needed
Guide the creation of reusable, well-structured datasets and data models that support consistent metrics, scalable reporting, and future self-service analytics
Ensure appropriate validation, reconciliation, testing, monitoring, and documentation practices are applied
Partner with enterprise data, engineering, security, and platform teams to align solutions with architectural and governance standards
Reporting & Lightweight Applications
Guide the design and delivery of dashboards, recurring reporting, self-service views, and lightweight digital solutions that support Learning & Knowledge leaders and operational partners
Contribute hands-on to reporting, automation, application development, or solution design based on team priorities and capacity
Promote standardization, automation, reuse, usability, and maintainability across solutions
Help convert recurring ad hoc needs and manual processes into sustainable datasets, queries, reporting, forms, applications, or workflow tools
Partner with technology teams when a solution requires enterprise integration, production support, or capabilities beyond a lightweight application
Collaboration & Communication
Work closely with the Product Owner, Learning, Knowledge Management, Operational Excellence, Operations, analytics, and technology partners to deliver prioritized solutions
Participate in planning, refinement, test
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