The Cigna Group

healthcare

PortfolioLead

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia FULL TIME
The Brief

“Portfolio Lead at The Cigna Group. Skills: process management, cross-functional coordination, vendor/stakeholder management, operational metrics, resource planning, continuous improvement. Maintain a clear portfolio vision aligned to business strategy, market needs, and enterprise priorities. Translate strategic themes into portfolio‑level priorities and ensure alignment across sponsors, ARTs, and delivery teams”

What You'll Achieve.

Maintain a clear portfolio vision aligned to business strategy, market needs, and enterprise priorities; Ensure all work entering the portfolio meets strategic relevance and clear value justification; Ensure Epic Owners and business partners meet intake, refinement, and definition standards; Track portfolio progress, risks, dependencies, and financial adherence across all initiatives; Provide structured portfolio reporting and insights to senior leadership; Own and continuously improve the intake process; Apply prioritization criteria to determine what moves forward; Support ARTs and Epic Owners by ensuring approved portfolio items are clearly communicated, properly sequenced, and aligned prior to PI Planning; Monitor flow of Epics across teams and ARTs; Escalate systemic risks, blockers, or resource constraints impacting delivery; Establish and track portfolio KPIs including flow metrics, delivery predictability, value delivery, cycle time, and work in process; Ensure each Epic has measurable success criteria and value support post‑delivery reviews and benefits realization; Provide data‑driven insights for strategic adjustments, capacity balancing, and investment shifts; Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on portfolio health, strategic trade‑offs, risks, and investment recommendations; Coach and support Epic Owners, PMs, Product Managers, and contributing teams in lean‑agile portfolio practices

Industry & Context.

healthcare
Problems you'll solve

proactive problem-solving

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

6 - 10 years of experience in strategy execution, portfolio management, program delivery, or a similar role, knowledge of SAFe, Agile delivery, Lean Portfolio Management, and value-stream-based operating models, Demonstrated experience supporting or leading multiple, complex initiatives concurrently, Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to engage senior leaders, Proficiency in portfolio tools (e. g. , Jira, Azure DevOps, reporting dashboards) and analytical skills

Nice to Have

SAFe certifications (LPM, Leading SAFe, SPC, or POPM), and/or PMI certifications in Portfolio and program management, Experience in healthcare or insurance industries, Understanding of financial analysis, portfolio cost modelling, and investment governance, Ability to coach teams and influence operating model evolution

What You'll Do.

Maintain a clear portfolio vision aligned to business strategy

and enterprise priorities

Translate strategic themes into portfolio‑level priorities and ensure alignment across sponsors

Ensure all work entering the portfolio meets strategic relevance and clear value justification

Lead the Portfolio Kanban including intake

readiness assessments

and sequencing of work

Support development and review of Lean Business Cases

including problem statements

and financial impacts

Ensure Epic Owners and business partners meet intake

and definition standards before passing items to solutioning and delivery

Facilitate or support portfolio ceremonies: Portfolio Syncs

prioritization rounds

and quarterly or PI‑aligned governance checkpoints

Track portfolio progress

and financial adherence across all initiatives

Provide structured portfolio reporting and insights to senior leadership

highlighting constraints

and required decisions

Own and continuously improve the intake process to ensure submissions meet quality standards and reflect business urgency

Apply prioritization criteria (strategic alignment

capacity) to determine what moves forward

Support ARTs and Epic Owners by ensuring approved portfolio items are clearly communicated

and aligned prior to PI Planning

Monitor flow of Epics across teams and ARTs

ensuring dependencies are understood and mitigation plans exist

Escalate systemic risks

or resource constraints impacting delivery

Establish and track portfolio KPIs including flow metrics

delivery predictability

Ensure each Epic has measurable success criteria and value support post‑delivery reviews and benefits realization

Provide data‑driven insights for strategic adjustments

and investment shifts

Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on portfolio health

and investment recommendations

Build working relationships across business

and transformation teams

Coach and support Epic Owners

and contributing teams in lean‑agile portfolio practices

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Ensure alignment across sponsors, ARTs, and delivery teams; Ensure Epic Owners and business partners meet intake, refinement, and definition standards; Support ARTs and Epic Owners by ensuring approved portfolio items are clearly communicated, properly sequenced, and aligned prior to PI Planning; Monitor flow of Epics across teams and ARTs; Build working relationships across business, technology, operations, finance, and transformation teams; Coach and support Epic Owners, PMs, Product Managers, and contributing teams in lean‑agile portfolio practices

Communication Scope

Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to engage senior leaders; structured communication

Process & Methodology

portfolio management, program delivery, Lean Portfolio Management, SAFe, Agile delivery

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