Remote Payer Consulting Lead – Senior Manager

Cognizant; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 140,000 - 159,000; 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

Parental leave

Fertility assistance

Learning and development

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Sr. Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and grow Cognizant's consulting practice in a remote US role.

You will manage engagement teams, oversee delivery quality, coordinate onsite/offshore staffing, and partner with executives to create value for payers, providers, and life sciences clients. This role offers strong incentives and growth opportunities within Cognizant's consulting portfolio.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of strong consulting experience with extensive client-facing work.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or equivalent.
• Proven experience developing and leading consultant teams in planning, analysis and delivery.
• Experience managing onsite/offshore teams and governance models.
• Proficiency in business/financial data modeling and analysis.

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 elevate engagement challenges to appropriate decision-makers.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Governance

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related

Master’s or MBA degree

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Sr. Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and grow Cognizant's consulting practice in a remote US role.

You will manage engagement teams, oversee delivery quality, coordinate onsite/offshore staffing, and partner with executives to create value for payers, providers, and life sciences clients. This role offers strong incentives and growth opportunities within Cognizant's consulting portfolio.