Cognizant

Healthcare Payer Client Partner

Cognizant$200K — $240K *
Healthcare
15+ years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 20+ years in the Healthcare Payer consulting industry
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
  • Proven P&L management expertise
  • Strong business development and consultative selling experience
  • Track record of formulating innovative deals
  • Familiarity with challenges in Healthcare Payer business
  • Preferred advanced degree (MBA or master's)

Responsibilities

  • Build and execute an account plan for growth
  • Identify and close new business opportunities
  • Manage CIO/COO level client relationships
  • Lead contract negotiations with innovative approaches
  • Oversee account P&L management
  • Forecast talent retention and growth needs
  • Lead and mentor the project team
  • Provide thought leadership in IT, BPO, and offshoring strategies

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
  • Paid holidays and Paid Time Off
  • 401(k) plan with contributions
  • Long-term and Short-term Disability coverage
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Full Job Description
This Healthcare Client Partner role at Cognizant Technology Solutions will be responsible for managing a large Healthcare Payer account. Candidates should have strong business development focused account management experience, with the ability to manage a large high-growth account in various domains including Digital Business (Artificial Intelligence, Digital Engineering, Digital Strategy, Interactive), Digital Operations (Enterprise Services, Platform Solutions and Intelligent Process Automation), Digital Systems & Technology (Application Services, Cloud Enablement, Infrastructure Services, Security, Core Modernization, Enterprise Application Services and Quality Engineering & Assurance).

The Healthcare Client Partner will partner with the CIO/VPs and vendor management teams and help them identify various opportunities and initiatives that can be off-shored. This Healthcare Client Partner will play a key role in driving revenues specifically for Cognizant's Healthcare Business Unit, and it is preferred that the qualified candidate reside within the western United States and be able to travel as required for business throughout the western United States.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Builds and executes an Account Plan that includes both transactional and strategic initiatives to grow in the account
  • Identifies and closes new opportunities that result in substantial growth in share, revenues, and margin.
  • Manage CIO/ COO level relationships effectively.
  • Manage contract negotiations and should be able to lead creative financial and contractual constructs.
  • Manage and grow the account's P&L, MIS & Reporting.
  • Forecast and manage talent retention and growth optimally.
  • Lead the team effectively.
  • Thought leadership in IT/Offshoring, BPO and Infrastructure.
  • Strong BD (farming) and sales (hunting) experience.
  • Ability to engage in consultative selling with Healthcare Payer clients.
  • Formulate creative deals and ability to innovate and raise the bar consistently.

Required Qualifications:
  • 20+ years of proven track record of growing a successful consulting business in the Healthcare Payer industry.
  • 4 year bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience is required.
  • Thought leadership in IT/Offshoring environment.
  • P&L management experience.
  • Strong Business Development (farming) and sales (hunting) experience.
  • Ability to engage in consultative selling.
  • Experience in formulating creative deals.
  • Experience in Healthcare Payer business and aware of its challenges.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience in IT, Infrastructure, and BPO consulting arena.
  • Knowledge of Cognizant's Healthcare Payer solutions and services is a plus.

Required Education:
  • Bachelors degree or commensurate years of work experience required
  • Advanced degree (MBA or Masters) preferred

Work Authorization:

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The BASE SALARY for this position $200,000 - $240,000 plus annual bonus.

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, based on applicable law.

Additional employment information
Compensation 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.

Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.

About Cognizant

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management. With technology solutions touching more than half the U.S. population today, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of core benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. TriZetto provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers.

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Size
340,400 employees
Market Cap
$28.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.3 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+6.5%
Revenue
$16.6 billion
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