Remote Consulting Manager, Payer Solutions

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 81,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life-ins

401(k) plan and contributions

Employee stock purchase plan

Employee assistance program

10 paid holidays plus PTO

Paid parental leave and fertility help

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting in the United States is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and spur strategic growth for our consulting practice. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, clients, and senior stakeholders to deliver value.

The role emphasizes program governance, post-mortems, and building scalable solutions, with an onsite/offshore delivery model and a focus on payer industry expertise.

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.

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

Team leadership

Onsite/offshore model experience

Business/financial data modeling

Consulting frameworks & methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field

Job description

Cognizant Consulting in the United States is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and spur strategic growth for our consulting practice. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, clients, and senior stakeholders to deliver value.

The role emphasizes program governance, post-mortems, and building scalable solutions, with an onsite/offshore delivery model and a focus on payer industry expertise.