Remote Payer Consulting Manager | Strategy & Delivery

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Trenton (NJ); 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 care

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and propel strategic growth within Cognizant’s consulting practice. You will oversee cross-functional teams, manage stakeholder expectations, and ensure governance and profitability across projects.

The role emphasizes engagement leadership, post-mortem learning, and value realization for payer-domain clients, with a flexible remote work model across 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.
• 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

Engagement leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Client-facing experience

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or equivalent

Tools

Onsite/offshore model experience

Data modeling & analysis

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and propel strategic growth within Cognizant’s consulting practice. You will oversee cross-functional teams, manage stakeholder expectations, and ensure governance and profitability across projects.

The role emphasizes engagement leadership, post-mortem learning, and value realization for payer-domain clients, with a flexible remote work model across the United States.