Location: Saint Louis,MO, USA
**Position Summary:**
The Product Advisor will be a resourceful professional responsible for supporting the State Commercial Regulatory team within the Regulated Markets Division. Responsibilities may include but not limited to:
+ Support the review process and management of product specific and/or large-scale state commercial regulations that impact the business.
+ Facilitation of internal cross-functional discussion to understand implications of new regulations to the enterprise.
+ Identify impacted products or processes by new state regulations to ensure compliant solutions are appropriately setup.
+ Implementation, surveillance and ongoing maintenance of State Commercial laws impacting Express Scripts and our client's pharmacy benefit.
+ Initiate internal and external communications and training on the impact and solutions for state commercial laws.
**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**
+ Completing business assessments of regulations and documenting impact and action items within the regulatory database.
+ Assessing state regulations and translating them to business requirements to ensure optimal operational or technology solution is in place.
+ Consult cross-functional partners on action and compliance plans, participate in designing compliant solutions and present to appropriate forums.
+ Ability to take complex concepts and translate them to IT requirements when a technology solution is needed.
+ Fielding and responding to inquiries from our partners (such as account teams, implementation teams and strategists) related to enacted state regulations.
+ Identifying, and implementing process improvements when needed to meet compliance and/or stakeholder needs.
+ Communicate strategies and deliverables with internal teams (leadership/business areas/account teams) and clients), effectively and efficiently.
+ End to end ownership of the assigned regulations, including surveillance, resolution of issues and ongoing maintenance.
+ Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing guidance and consultation to clients and account teams on potential compliant solutions.
+ Provide Project Management support for large sweeping (Omnibus) state commercial laws, which impacts multiple business areas.
**QUALIFICATIONS**
+ Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline or relevant experience.
+ Self-starter with strong problem-solving, critical thinking and multi-tasking abilities across various projects independently.
+ Strong PC computer skills including PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, and Word.
+ Excellent communication and presentation skills [written and verbal].
+ Must have a high level of organization and interpersonal skills, be comfortable with ambiguity and a dynamic and fast paced environment.
+ Maintain a high degree of professionalism in enterprise relationships and interpersonal interactions.
**PREFERRED SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS**
+ State Commercial Regulations background preferred.
+ Background in business management or compliance (strongly preferred)
+ PBM and/or Regulated Markets experience.
+ Project Management experience.
+ IT project experience.
**_* * * This is a hybrid role that will require the ability to work in person three days per week. * * *_**
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.
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_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._