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[Remote] Sr. Consulting Manager- Healthcare Payer SME

Remote role Full-time Open position

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

Company Overview

  • Cognizant is a professional services company that helps clients alter their business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.cognizant.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Cognizant has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1384 in 2026, 11112 in 2025, 11423 in 2024, 13054 in 2023, 13876 in 2022, 12651 in 2021, 28659 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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