Remote Consulting Manager, Healthcare Payer & Strategy Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 81,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Employee assistance program

Holidays & PTO

Parental leave

Learning certificates

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements and drive solution delivery for our payer/healthcare client base. You will work with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders to ensure strategic growth and value creation.

The role supports a remote US-based work model with flexibility and a focus on delivering measurable outcomes. Strong leadership, consulting experience, and offshore/onshore coordination are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of consulting, digital strategy, or transformation with client-facing experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related discipline.
• Proven experience leading consultant teams in planning, analysis, and delivery.
• Experience managing onsite/offshore teams.
• Proficiency in business/financial data modeling and analysis.
• Familiarity with consulting frameworks, processes, 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 esarlasct engagement challenges to appropriate decision-makers.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Engagement management

Team leadership

Onsite/offshore model

Business/financial data modeling

Consulting methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements and drive solution delivery for our payer/healthcare client base. You will work with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders to ensure strategic growth and value creation.

The role supports a remote US-based work model with flexibility and a focus on delivering measurable outcomes. Strong leadership, consulting experience, and offshore/onshore coordination are essential.