Remote Payer Consulting Manager: Strategy & Delivery

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 81,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and grow Cognizant's consulting practice across the payer space.

You will oversee engagement teams, ensure governance, profitability, and client satisfaction, and collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders. This remote role is open to qualified applicants in the United States.

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.

Skills

Client-facing

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Project management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and grow Cognizant's consulting practice across the payer space.

You will oversee engagement teams, ensure governance, profitability, and client satisfaction, and collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders. This remote role is open to qualified applicants in the United States.