Chief Operating Officer – Cigna Healthcare

Company: CIGNA
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Location: Glasgow
Job Description:

Overview

As COO for Global Individual Health, you will shape the future customer experience and lead a multi-year transformation to scale operations and deliver growth. You will work across global matrix teams to design a differentiated service proposition and ensure operational excellence. Expect to drive automation, digital innovation, and data-driven decision making while upholding a culture of accountability and customer obsession. This role offers impact at scale within a rapidly expanding international health business.

Pay / Benefits

  • competitive executive compensation and benefits package
  • wellbeing support
  • financial and family support tailored to local market practices

Responsibilities

  • Set vision and strategy for the GIH customer experience and execute the transformation program
  • Design and implement a differentiated service proposition aligned with segment needs and broker roles
  • Maintain global connectivity to leverage enterprise IH capabilities
  • Oversee systems, processes, and people to support operations
  • Improve efficiency of daily operations and define clear accountabilities
  • Collaborate with Customer Office SLT to adopt growth initiatives
  • Lead cross-functional transformation across operations, technology, and customer experience
  • Drive automation and digital innovation with a data-driven approach
  • Establish performance metrics and governance for operational effectiveness and customer outcomes
  • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation and customer obsession

Key requirements

  • Significant experience building and leading teams in a global, matrixed environment
  • Proven track record in owning and enhancing the complete customer experience
  • Extensive stakeholder engagement experience (internal and external)
  • Strategic thinker with technical acumen and delivery track record
  • Strong understanding of how a retail business model operates
  • Healthcare, consumer finance or similar regulated sector experience preferred
  • MBA or degree level preferred
  • Track record of leading large-scale transformation and operational change
  • Strong financial and commercial acumen balancing CX, ops excellence and business performance
  • Experience leading complex organizations through growth, change and modernization
  • Global mindset and cross-cultural sensitivity
  • Senior-level influence and decision making
  • People leadership and development
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Automation and digital innovation
  • Operational governance and performance measurement

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Posted: October 17th, 2026