Provider Contracting Director - Transplant (LifeSource) (Healthcare)

Location: United States Work at Home; remote work with travel within the Northeast territory as needed. Home internet must use cable broadband or fiber optic service with speeds of at least 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.

Salary: $106,400–$177,300 annually, depending on experience and geographic location. Eligible for an annual bonus plan.

Company

Cigna Healthcare, a division of hirify.global, supports customers through the healthcare system and provides health and well-being services.

What you will do

• Lead complex contract negotiations with hospitals, transplant centers, physician groups, and advanced cellular therapy providers across the Northeast.
• Negotiate reimbursement rates, financial terms, contract language, renewals, amendments, and new provider agreements.
• Manage a portfolio of approximately 40–50 facilities and oversee the financial and operational performance of assigned agreements.
• Develop arrangements using fee-for-service, case rates, bundled payments, DRGs, and value-based methodologies.
• Analyze claims, medical, financial, and market data to support negotiation strategies and affordability initiatives.
• Partner with Medical Economics, Clinical, Product, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and local market teams on network strategy and contract implementation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• At least five years of commercial healthcare contracting and negotiation experience with hospitals, health systems, large physician groups, or other complex delivery organizations.
• Experience negotiating reimbursement, financial terms, and contractual language with sophisticated provider organizations.
• Strong understanding of hospital, managed-care, and provider business models.
• Ability to independently manage substantial contract portfolios, concurrent negotiations, shifting priorities, and senior stakeholder relationships.
• Strong financial, analytical, negotiation, communication, organization, and decision-making skills, with proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and related tools.

Nice to have

• Transplant, stem-cell, or advanced cellular therapy contracting experience.
• Experience with bundled or case-rate arrangements for complex episodes of care.
• Knowledge of hospital contracting, network affordability, provider incentive programs, contract modeling, redlining, and network analytics.
• Established knowledge of provider markets in the Northeast.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with health, vision, dental, well-being, and behavioral health benefits from day one.
• 401(k), company-paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.
• At least 18 days of paid time off per year.
• Fast-paced, highly matrixed environment with autonomy and cross-functional collaboration.