Remote Healthcare Payer Consulting Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Atlanta (GA); 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

Paid holidays & PTO

Parental leave & fertility assistance

Learning & development programs

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and secure strategic growth for Cognizant’s consulting practice. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, clients, and senior stakeholders to ensure value creation.

You will oversee project staff, review deliverables for quality and alignment, and pursue opportunities for expansion through strategic governance and collaboration with partners.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of strong industry experience in consulting, digital strategy development, advisory services, or transformation programs.
• Bachelor’s degree in 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

Consulting experience

Client-facing

Onsite/offshore model

Data modeling & analysis

Frameworks & methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and secure strategic growth for Cognizant’s consulting practice. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, clients, and senior stakeholders to ensure value creation.

You will oversee project staff, review deliverables for quality and alignment, and pursue opportunities for expansion through strategic governance and collaboration with partners.