Consulting Principal, Healthcare Payer SME

About the role

As a Consulting Principal BA, you will lead client engagements, drive solution delivery, and ensure strategic growth for Cognizant’s consulting practice. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, clients, and senior stakeholders.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and a transformational mindset.
• Leadership and team management skills.
• Collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
• Data modeling and analysis.
• Consulting frameworks and methodologies.

Pay

$122,400 - $194,000

Schedule

This is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting and may change based on project, business, or client requirements.