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Healthcare Payer Senior Manager-Advisory

Cognizant North America

life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)

United States, New Jersey, Teaneck

May 05, 2025

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing!

The Role

Our Healthcare consulting practice is looking for a Senior Manager/Consulting Principal to join our journey.

We're looking for Senior Consulting Managers who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. At the Senior Manager consulting level, this means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, consultatively working with a client to achieve business goals, driving contributions to offerings and innovations, and serving as a people leader, guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client and the world. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we're passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!

Key Responsibilities:

Acts as the Engagement Lead and manages teams of consultants for one or more commercial projects to ensure effective negotiations, well-aligned solution-delivery-to-plan, clear engagement governance accountabilities, profitability, and overall client satisfaction
Assesses proposed solutions from an opportunity expansion and strategic growth perspective, including partner / alliance involvement
Drives collaborative solutioning across cross-functional teams (e.g., aligns interests and priorities, builds shared goals, establishes cadence, enforces governance)
Monitors and supervises as required the daily activities of project staff, including consulting and non-consulting team members
Reviews project deliverables across workstreams from the perspective of QA, requirements alignment, and solution integration
Leads or drives project post-mortems to extract lessons learned and to identify potential intellectual property for repurposing
Applies strategic thinking and a transformational mindset to ensure value-add opportunities for clients
Drives issue resolution and the escalation of engagement challenges to the appropriate levels of decision-making

Essential:

10+ years of strong industry experience in consulting, Digital strategy development, advisory services, or transformation programs, that also represent extensive client-facing experiences
10+ years of Healthcare, Payer domain experience
Bachelor's degree in information technology (IT) or equivalent in relevant business or technical discipline
Experience in successfully developing and leading consultant teams in consultant tasks (e.g., planning, task structuring, analysis, solution delivery)
Experience in working with and managing teams using an onsite / offshore model
Experience with business / financial data modeling and analysis
Experience with various consulting frameworks, processes, and methodologies

Desired:

Extensive experience in client management and relationship building at the executive level
Experience in working in global organizations and/or with global clients
Experience in Big 4 management firms

Work Authorization

* Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

The annual salary for this position is between $165,000 - $210,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
401(k) plan and contributions
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.