Legal Counsel – Cigna Healthcare

Overview

As Legal Counsel, Europe, you will provide practical, commercially-focused legal and regulatory guidance to support Cigna Healthcare’s European businesses. You will work with cross-functional teams to navigate insurance and financial services regulation, market-entry efforts, and strategic initiatives. The role involves drafting and negotiating commercial agreements and monitoring regulatory developments to protect the business. You will collaborate with Compliance, Risk and Privacy teams to deliver practical support across multiple jurisdictions, driving responsible growth.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal and regulatory support to European businesses in collaboration with commercial, operational and functional teams
• Advise on insurance regulatory matters and engage with regulatory authorities
• Support strategic projects, transactions, business-change initiatives and cross-functional initiatives
• Advise on product development, changes and market-entry initiatives
• Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements and provide legal support on commercial initiatives
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and assess their impact
• Coordinate with Compliance, Risk, Privacy and stakeholders to implement legal/regulatory requirements
• Collaborate with colleagues across jurisdictions to deliver consistent legal support
• Support instruction and management of external legal advisers where appropriate

Key requirements

• Qualified lawyer in Scotland, England and Wales or another European jurisdiction with typically 2-5 years’ post-qualification experience
• Strong legal training in private practice, in-house or both
• Experience in insurance, financial services regulation, corporate/commercial, banking and finance or related areas, or in-house experience in financial services
• Strong drafting, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to provide practical, commercially-focused legal advice to non-legal stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong organisational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Proactive, solutions-oriented with ownership mindset
• Fluent written and spoken English

• interpersonal skills
• communication
• problem-solving
• insurance regulation
• financial services regulation
• corporate and commercial law

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