Remote Consulting Manager, Payer Transformation Leader

Cognizant; Salt Lake City (UT); 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 Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and foster growth within Cognizant’s consulting practice. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, clients, and senior stakeholders to deliver value-driven outcomes.

The role requires 7+ years in consulting or related fields, a IT-related degree, and experience managing on-site and offshore teams.

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 esarlasct engagement challenges to appropriate decision-makers.

Skills

Consulting leadership

Client-facing

Team management

Onsite/offshore model

Data modeling

Business analysis

Frameworks & methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and foster growth within Cognizant’s consulting practice. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, clients, and senior stakeholders to deliver value-driven outcomes.

The role requires 7+ years in consulting or related fields, a IT-related degree, and experience managing on-site and offshore teams.