Remote Consulting Manager, Payer Strategy & Delivery

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Richmond (VA); 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

Learning and development programs

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and grow Cognizant’s consulting practice. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, clients, and senior stakeholders across complex payer projects.

You must have 7+ years in consulting or related fields, a IT degree, and proven leadership of consultant teams with onsite/offshore delivery models. Remote US work available with strong business analytics skills.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of consulting, digital strategy, advisory services, or transformation programs with client-facing experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or equivalent in a relevant business or technical discipline.
• Proven experience leading consultant teams in planning, structuring tasks, analysis, and 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.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Engagement leadership

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Onsite/offshore model experience

Strategic growth assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and grow Cognizant’s consulting practice. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, clients, and senior stakeholders across complex payer projects.

You must have 7+ years in consulting or related fields, a IT degree, and proven leadership of consultant teams with onsite/offshore delivery models. Remote US work available with strong business analytics skills.