PBM Strategy Intern in St. Louis, MO, USA

Summer Internship Program

This 10-week paid internship lets you take on meaningful healthcare strategy projects, build relationships across the organization, and contribute to work that supports millions of patients, clients, and members. You will gain exposure to the healthcare industry while working alongside experienced professionals in strategy, business development, and cross-functional partner teams.

Program activities may include executive speaker sessions, volunteer events, networking opportunities, and career development workshops to help you explore a future full-time career.

About the Team

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.

Responsibilities

• Support PBM Strategy and Business Development initiatives covering market insights, competitive intelligence, business performance, and cross-functional strategy execution.
• Help coordinate project plans, timelines, meeting materials, status updates, and follow-ups for assigned strategy initiatives.
• Contribute to project planning by gathering information, organizing inputs, documenting key decisions, and turning ideas into clear next steps.
• Identify ways to improve processes, reporting, communications, or stakeholder workflows, and offer practical recommendations to increase efficiency.
• Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners on strategy enablement, sales enablement, and communication materials that help teams align on key priorities.

What You Will Learn

You will build a stronger understanding of the PBM industry, healthcare market dynamics, enterprise strategy, stakeholder management, executive communication, and how strategic priorities are put into action across a complex organization.

Benefits

• Structured experience that connects academic learning with practical 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 across the organization to prepare for a full-time career.

Preferred Skills and Interests

• Curiosity about healthcare, pharmacy benefits, strategy, consulting, public policy, finance, analytics, or business operations.
• Comfort working with ambiguous information and synthesizing it into clear written or visual materials.
• Interest in how large healthcare organizations make strategic decisions.

Qualified applicants will be considered 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 [email protected].

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.