Remote Senior Payer Strategy & Delivery Lead

Cognizant; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Remote; USD 140,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Sr. Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and fuel growth for Cognizant’s consulting practice in the United States. You will coordinate cross-functional teams and work with senior stakeholders.

This role emphasizes strategic thinking, governance, and delivering value for payers, providers, and life sciences clients, with onsite/offshore collaboration and a strong focus on results and intellectual property.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of consulting and extensive client-facing experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in IT or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Proven experience leading consultant teams in planning, task structuring, analysis and 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 escalate engagement challenges to appropriate decision-makers.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Sr. Consulting Manager- Payer BA to lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and fuel growth for Cognizant’s consulting practice in the United States. You will coordinate cross-functional teams and work with senior stakeholders.

This role emphasizes strategic thinking, governance, and delivering value for payers, providers, and life sciences clients, with onsite/offshore collaboration and a strong focus on results and intellectual property.