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Health Service Leadership Development Program Summer Associate (Intern)

Cigna

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Hours
Part time
Where
Bloomfield, CT
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Today

Spend your summer doing work that can shape your career and improve healthcare. The HSLDP Summer Associate Internship is a 10-week experience for graduate students who are passionate about healthcare, energized by complex business challenges, and ready to lead with curiosity, confidence, and compassion.

Summer Associates own meaningful work tied to enterprise priorities, engage with senior leaders, and experience the culture, scale, and impact of The Cigna Group.

What you'd do

  • Own a high-impact project in areas such as healthcare strategy, product innovation, operations, customer experience, digital health, pharmacy and care delivery, provider/network strategy, or enterprise transformation.
  • Apply structured thinking to assess business opportunities, analyze data, identify insights, and recommend practical solutions.
  • Partner with business leaders and cross-functional teams to move work forward and communicate progress, risks, and recommendations.
  • Use AI-enabled tools, analytics, and digital solutions to improve project outcomes, productivity, insight generation, or decision quality.
  • Build leadership presence through executive exposure, peer collaboration, networking, mentoring, and final presentations.

What they want

  • Currently pursuing an MBA, MPH, or MHA, with 3 years of professional experience prior to graduate school or during career progression.
  • Demonstrated leadership in professional, academic, military, entrepreneurial, community, or project-based settings.
  • Strong management, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Demonstrated interest in healthcare, health services, customer experience, or improving health outcomes.
  • Experience using AI tools, analytics, or technology-enabled solutions to improve productivity, insights, or outcomes.

About Cigna

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients.

Starts
2026-08-19