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Director of Risk Management roles qualify as H-1B specialty occupations, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in finance, business, or a related field. Financial services, insurance, and healthcare employers are among the most active H-1B sponsors for this title, with two-year initial periods and unlimited renewals.
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The Director of Risk Management – MidAtlantic will play a key role in adapting, monitoring, and implementing the market strategy with both their Market Growth Leader and Senior Director of Risk Management/Managing Director. This position will provide useful risk and financial insights to help make better decisions and execute the market strategy.
The Director of Risk Management (DRM) will interact effectively both internally and externally, and be viewed as a trusted business advisor. Critical outcomes include supporting the market with key risk and financial information and analytics, driving a culture of accountability in managing the business, and voicing well-substantiated dissenting opinions.
Key Responsibilities
- Share market P&L accountability for the local market with MGL and market’s Senior DRM / Managing Director
- Build and maintain working knowledge of all lines of business operating within the market.
- Support management process that measures and analyzes results, initiates corrective actions, and minimizes the impact of variances to ensure P&L goals are achieved.
- Study financial trends to identify revenue, cost reduction, return on investment, profit, and improvement opportunities.
- Work with Sr DRM / Managing Director to create financial planning. Hold matrix and market partners accountable to taking actions and making decisions that ensure targets are achieved.
- Market lead the underwriting function supporting Sr DRM / Managing Director. Drive pipeline and portfolio management.
Support developing and executing market strategy
- Provide useful risk and financial insights to make better decisions about formulating and executing business strategy.
- Integrate buyer group strategies for local market execution.
- Support development and co-own execution of multi-year strategic business plan.
- Strategically leverage matrix partnerships and subject matter expertise to execute market strategies.
- Be a student of the market. Have a presence in the community and industry events.
Provide a broad risk management perspective to all strategic conversations
- Develop mastery of data insights and new risk levers.
- Develop processes and disciplines around monitoring and assessing risk in decisions.
- Proactively share feedback from the market with home office partners to improve our suite of solutions and services.
- Always start with and end with customer/client needs, when developing consultative, innovative and affordable solutions and contemplating the resultant risk. Cigna cannot optimize outcomes without creating value for our customers and clients.
People and personal development
- Hire and retain top grade talent. Develop and inspire the team to achieve next level performance.
- Influence how we hire and train.
- Be a team player. Proactively share ideas and best practices with peers. Challenge when appropriate.
- Invest in your own personal development. Update job knowledge, seek educational opportunities, read relevant industry and local market news, maintain professional networks, participate in professional organizations.
Required Competencies
- Business acumen
- Results oriented
- Leadership and talent development
- Influencing / negotiating and professional savvy
- Strategic thinking - bias to be curious
- Foster a culture of innovation
- Change management
- Ability to drive results through matrix environment
- Create collaborative environment to leverage expertise across buying groups
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to driving corporate strategy
- Proven financial acumen demonstrated by risk management, underwriting or related experience
- Customer focused
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 8+ years of underwriting, finance or related experience
- Experienced people manager with a proven track record of building effective teams, as well as motivating and developing others
- History of consistently delivering business results and achieving production goals
- Ability to work effectively in dynamic, rapidly changing, team-based environment
- Strong creative thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills
- Ability to create vision and purpose
- Innovative and creative thinker who develops and recommends thoughtful solutions to complex issues, and drives toward win-win solutions w/ an execution focus
- Demonstrated track record of leading organizations through business model changes with proven results
- Ability to foster collaboration, value others perspectives and gain support and buy-in for organizational proposals
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Strong emotional intelligence, leadership skills, and executive presence
- Proven ability to function and thrive in a heavily matrixed environment
- Ability to drive consistent processes across multiple locations
- Some travel required (25%)
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 Cigna Healthcare
Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email seeyourself@thecignagroup.com for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.
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.
Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.
INTRODUCTION
The Director of Risk Management – MidAtlantic will play a key role in adapting, monitoring, and implementing the market strategy with both their Market Growth Leader and Senior Director of Risk Management/Managing Director. This position will provide useful risk and financial insights to help make better decisions and execute the market strategy.
The Director of Risk Management (DRM) will interact effectively both internally and externally, and be viewed as a trusted business advisor. Critical outcomes include supporting the market with key risk and financial information and analytics, driving a culture of accountability in managing the business, and voicing well-substantiated dissenting opinions.
Key Responsibilities
- Share market P&L accountability for the local market with MGL and market’s Senior DRM / Managing Director
- Build and maintain working knowledge of all lines of business operating within the market.
- Support management process that measures and analyzes results, initiates corrective actions, and minimizes the impact of variances to ensure P&L goals are achieved.
- Study financial trends to identify revenue, cost reduction, return on investment, profit, and improvement opportunities.
- Work with Sr DRM / Managing Director to create financial planning. Hold matrix and market partners accountable to taking actions and making decisions that ensure targets are achieved.
- Market lead the underwriting function supporting Sr DRM / Managing Director. Drive pipeline and portfolio management.
Support developing and executing market strategy
- Provide useful risk and financial insights to make better decisions about formulating and executing business strategy.
- Integrate buyer group strategies for local market execution.
- Support development and co-own execution of multi-year strategic business plan.
- Strategically leverage matrix partnerships and subject matter expertise to execute market strategies.
- Be a student of the market. Have a presence in the community and industry events.
Provide a broad risk management perspective to all strategic conversations
- Develop mastery of data insights and new risk levers.
- Develop processes and disciplines around monitoring and assessing risk in decisions.
- Proactively share feedback from the market with home office partners to improve our suite of solutions and services.
- Always start with and end with customer/client needs, when developing consultative, innovative and affordable solutions and contemplating the resultant risk. Cigna cannot optimize outcomes without creating value for our customers and clients.
People and personal development
- Hire and retain top grade talent. Develop and inspire the team to achieve next level performance.
- Influence how we hire and train.
- Be a team player. Proactively share ideas and best practices with peers. Challenge when appropriate.
- Invest in your own personal development. Update job knowledge, seek educational opportunities, read relevant industry and local market news, maintain professional networks, participate in professional organizations.
Required Competencies
- Business acumen
- Results oriented
- Leadership and talent development
- Influencing / negotiating and professional savvy
- Strategic thinking - bias to be curious
- Foster a culture of innovation
- Change management
- Ability to drive results through matrix environment
- Create collaborative environment to leverage expertise across buying groups
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to driving corporate strategy
- Proven financial acumen demonstrated by risk management, underwriting or related experience
- Customer focused
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 8+ years of underwriting, finance or related experience
- Experienced people manager with a proven track record of building effective teams, as well as motivating and developing others
- History of consistently delivering business results and achieving production goals
- Ability to work effectively in dynamic, rapidly changing, team-based environment
- Strong creative thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills
- Ability to create vision and purpose
- Innovative and creative thinker who develops and recommends thoughtful solutions to complex issues, and drives toward win-win solutions w/ an execution focus
- Demonstrated track record of leading organizations through business model changes with proven results
- Ability to foster collaboration, value others perspectives and gain support and buy-in for organizational proposals
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Strong emotional intelligence, leadership skills, and executive presence
- Proven ability to function and thrive in a heavily matrixed environment
- Ability to drive consistent processes across multiple locations
- Some travel required (25%)
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 Cigna Healthcare
Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email seeyourself@thecignagroup.com for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.
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.
Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Director Of Risk Management
Verify your degree supports specialty occupation
USCIS requires your degree field to directly relate to risk management duties. A finance, economics, or statistics degree maps cleanly, but a general business degree sometimes triggers an RFE. Pull the O*NET profile for your SOC code before your employer files.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Director of Risk Management roles by employers who have filed LCAs for this specific title. Employers with recent filings have cleared DOL prevailing-wage certification before and understand the process.
Request the correct prevailing wage tier early
Risk directors typically land at DOL wage Level III or IV. Ask your employer to run the OFLC Wage Search using your exact job duties and worksite ZIP before submitting the LCA, since a misclassified level can delay certification.
Document enterprise-wide scope in your offer letter
USCIS scrutinizes whether a risk management role genuinely requires a specialty-degree employee. Your offer letter should specify cross-functional oversight, regulatory compliance frameworks, and quantitative modeling responsibilities, not just general management duties.
Prepare a portability plan if your petition gets transferred
AC21 portability lets you change employers after your I-140 has been approved for 180 days, provided the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification. Risk management titles are broad enough that most lateral moves qualify, but document the functional overlap explicitly.
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Does a Director of Risk Management role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. USCIS treats Director of Risk Management as a specialty occupation because the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in finance, economics, risk management, or a directly related field. Your employer's H-1B petition must demonstrate that the specific duties, not just the title, require that theoretical and practical application of specialized knowledge.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas most frequently for this role?
Financial services, insurance carriers, healthcare systems, and large manufacturing firms generate the most H-1B LCA filings for risk management directors. Heavily regulated industries file more consistently because risk oversight is a compliance requirement, not an optional function. You can browse employers with verified filing history for this title on Migrate Mate.
What happens to my H-1B if my employer restructures and my role changes?
A material change in your job duties, worksite location, or employer entity generally requires filing an amended H-1B petition before the change takes effect. If your risk management responsibilities shift substantially, such as moving from enterprise-wide oversight to a narrow functional area, your employer should file an amendment through USCIS to keep your status current.
How does the DOL prevailing wage apply to senior risk management titles?
The DOL assigns prevailing wages by SOC code, job duties, and worksite location. Director-level risk roles typically qualify at wage Level III or IV, reflecting supervisory scope and specialized expertise. Your employer certifies the offered salary meets or exceeds that level when filing the LCA. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check the applicable wage before negotiations.
Can I switch employers while my H-1B petition is pending?
H-1B portability under AC21 lets you change to a new employer while a timely-filed extension or transfer is pending, provided you have at least 240 days of authorized stay remaining from your prior approval. The new role must fall under the same or a substantially similar occupational classification, which is generally straightforward for risk management titles across industries.
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