[Remote] Sr. Consulting Manager- Healthcare Payer BA
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cognizant is a global community of experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. The Sr. Consulting Manager- Healthcare Payer BA will lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and ensure strategic growth within Cognizant’s consulting practice.
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
- 10+ 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
- Master's or MBA degree
- Experience in strategy divisions within Provider, PBM, Payer, and Life Sciences
- Experience collaborating with and reporting to CxO executives
- Background in Big 4 management firms
- Experience coordinating workstreams in multi-team projects using an onsite/offshore model
- Experience working in global organizations and/or with global clients
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Employee assistance program
- 10 paid holidays plus PTO
- Paid parental leave and fertility assistance
- Learning and development certifications and programs
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