Help build the clinical teams that expand access and support quality care. As Senior Recruiting Manager, you will lead a recruiting team and partner with senior business and HR leaders across Pharmacy and Behavioral Health to translate business priorities into talent strategies that build critical clinical capabilities, strengthen workforce readiness, and support long-term growth.
Responsibilities
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters, creating clear goals, shared accountability, and opportunities to learn, innovate, and grow.
• Advise senior business and HR leaders on workforce plans, talent availability, location strategy, role design, and hiring risk across Pharmacy and Behavioral Health talent markets.
• Build proactive talent acquisition strategies that align with business growth, implementation timelines, future skill needs, and changing clinical workforce demand.
• Use labor market intelligence, recruiting analytics, competitor insights, compensation inputs, and pipeline trends to guide decisions, measure progress, and improve hiring outcomes.
• Guide differentiated recruiting strategies for licensed, niche, high-volume, geographically constrained, and hard-to-fill clinical roles, ensuring a thoughtful, consistent experience for candidates, hiring managers, and stakeholders.
• Partner with Recruitment Marketing and Employer Brand teams to expand talent pipelines, strengthen The Cigna Group's presence in priority markets, and improve recruiting effectiveness.
• Align team capacity and recruiting priorities as business needs shift, balancing immediate hiring needs with proactive sourcing, pipeline development, and talent pooling.
• Advance recruiting practices, technology adoption, and process improvements to improve quality, speed, consistency, and scale.
Required Qualifications
• 10 or more years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including at least 5 years leading recruiters or recruiting teams.
• Demonstrated success coaching recruiters, setting direction, managing capacity, and building team capability in a fast-paced, complex, matrixed environment.
• Experience developing and executing recruiting strategies for professional, clinical, healthcare, pharmacy, behavioral health, or other specialized or hard-to-fill talent.
• Strong consulting and influencing skills, with the confidence to advise senior leaders, translate business priorities into talent plans, and navigate competing priorities.
• Experience using market intelligence, recruiting analytics, pipeline data, and workforce insights to shape strategy, identify risk, and improve results.
• Clear, persuasive communication and strong stakeholder relationship management skills, including the ability to simplify complex information and present actionable recommendations.
Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
• Experience recruiting licensed pharmacists, pharmacy leaders, behavioral health clinicians, or adjacent clinical and healthcare populations in regulated, high-volume, or implementation-driven environments.
• Experience partnering with Recruitment Marketing or Employer Brand teams and advancing recruiting technology or process improvements.
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.
For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 129,300 - 215,500 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.
This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.
At The Cigna Group, you'll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.
