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. As a Sr. Consulting Manager- Healthcare Payer SME, you will lead client engagements and drive solution delivery while collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure strategic growth.

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

• Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
• 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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