Remote Consulting Manager, Healthcare Payer SME

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 81,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Employee assistance program

Holiday and PTO

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting, based in the United States, seeks a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and support growth of Cognizant’s consulting practice. You will be a key member of cross-functional teams, collaborating with clients and senior stakeholders to deliver impactful outcomes.

You will oversee engagement teams, assess opportunities for expansion, and coordinate governance across onshore and offshore delivery, ensuring value, quality, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of strong industry experience in consulting, digital strategy development, advisory services, or transformation programs, with extensive client-facing experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology (IT) or equivalent in a relevant business or technical discipline.
• Proven experience developing and leading consultant teams in planning, task structuring, analysis, and solution delivery.
• Experience managing teams using an onsite/offshore model.
• Proficiency in business/financial data modeling and analysis.
• Familiarity with various consulting frameworks, processes, and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Engagement Lead, managing teams of consultants for commercial projects to ensure effective negotiations, solution delivery, governance, profitability, and client satisfaction.
• Assess proposed solutions for opportunity expansion and strategic growth, including partner and alliance involvement.
• Drive collaborative solutioning across cross-functional teams, aligning interests, building shared goals, and enforcing governance.
• Oversee daily activities of project staff, including consulting and non-consulting team members.
• Review project deliverables for quality assurance, requirements alignment, and solution integration.
• Lead project post-mortems to extract lessons learned and identify intellectual property for repurposing.
• Apply strategic thinking and a transformational mindset to ensure value-add opportunities for clients.
• Drive issue resolution and esalarsct engagement challenges to appropriate decision-makers.

Skills

Client-facing

Team leadership

Project management

Onsite/offshore model

Data modeling

Consulting frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Job description

Cognizant Consulting, based in the United States, seeks a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and support growth of Cognizant’s consulting practice. You will be a key member of cross-functional teams, collaborating with clients and senior stakeholders to deliver impactful outcomes.

You will oversee engagement teams, assess opportunities for expansion, and coordinate governance across onshore and offshore delivery, ensuring value, quality, and