Pharmacy Benefits Management - Strategy Intern
Cigna Group · St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Looking for an internship where your work contributes to real healthcare strategy instead of busy work? Cigna’s Summer Internship Program gives you the opportunity to take on meaningful projects, build relationships across the organization, and contribute to work that supports millions of patients, clients, and members.
As an intern, you will gain exposure to the healthcare industry while working alongside experienced professionals across strategy, business development, and cross-functional partner teams. Program activities may include executive speaker sessions, volunteer events, networking opportunities, and career development workshops designed to help you explore a future full-time career.
Title: PBM Strategy Intern
Location: St. Louis, MO; interns are expected to work in office at least 60% of the time, with flexibility.
Position Type: 10-week Paid Internship (Full-time, 40 hours weekly)
About Us:
At Cigna, Express Scripts, and Evernorth, we are committed to shaping the future of healthcare by making it more predictable, effective, and affordable for the patients, clients, and members we serve. The PBM Strategy and Business Development team uses market insights, competitive intelligence, and enterprise strategy support to help leaders understand external trends, evaluate business opportunities, and improve how the organization delivers value. As an intern, you will contribute to work that builds your healthcare knowledge, strengthens your strategic thinking, and creates meaningful exposure to leaders and teams across the business.
Responsibilities:
- Support PBM Strategy and Business Development initiatives related to market insights, competitive intelligence, business performance, and cross-functional strategy execution, with work that may inform leadership discussions, improve health outcomes, strengthen organizational value, and support financial performance goals.
- Help coordinate project plans, timelines, meeting materials, status updates, and follow-ups for assigned strategy initiatives.
- Contribute to project planning and execution by gathering information, organizing inputs, documenting key decisions, and helping translate ideas into clear next steps.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting, communications, or stakeholder workflows in a healthcare business environment, and offer practical recommendations to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
- Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners to support strategy enablement, sales enablement, and communication materials that help teams align key business priorities.
What you will learn:
During the internship, you will build a stronger understanding of the PBM industry, healthcare market dynamics, enterprise strategy, stakeholder management, executive communication, and how strategic priorities are translated into action across a complex organization.
Benefits:
- Structured experience that connects academic learning with practical, real-world business and healthcare work.
- Opportunities to meet business and healthcare professionals
- Volunteer opportunities to make a difference in the community
- Career development and learning opportunities
- Networking opportunities across the organization to prepare for a full-time career
Qualifications:
- A self-starter who is eager to learn and acquire new skills
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Effective time management and organization skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, executive-facing environment where discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment are important.
- Strong relationship-building skills
Preferred skills and interests:
- Curiosity about healthcare, pharmacy benefits, strategy, consulting, public policy, finance, analytics, or business operations.
- Comfort working with ambiguous information; ability to synthesize information into clear written or visual materials.
- Interest in learning how large healthcare organizations make strategic decisions.
Eligibility:
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree and entering junior or senior year by summer 2027, preferably in business, finance, economics, data science, public health, life sciences, healthcare administration, or another related field.
- Prefer cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher
- Candidates must be eligible for employment in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Are you ready to help shape the future of healthcare? Apply now and be part of a team dedicated to making a difference.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. Need an accommodation? Email SeeYourself@cigna.com.
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 Evernorth Health Services
Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. 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 need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email seeyourself@thecignagroup.com for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.
The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.
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