About Cognizant Consulting:
Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice—we’re a global community of 6,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague who’ll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?
About the role:
As a Consulting Manager, Healthcare Business Transformation, you will make an impact by leading a comprehensive assessment of enterprise Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) operations, identifying opportunities to improve process efficiency, system interoperability, data integrity, and financial performance. You will be a valued member of the Healthcare Consulting team and work collaboratively with business stakeholders, LTSS operations teams, product owners, IT teams, architects, data analysts, finance leaders, and executive sponsors.
In this role, you will:
• Lead end-to-end assessment and documentation of LTSS business processes across authorization, claims, provider, member, and financial workflows.
• Analyze interactions between Pega, QNXT, and related healthcare platforms to identify process, integration, and data flow gaps.
• Evaluate authorization-to-claims transaction integrity, data mappings, and operational controls to identify root causes of processing issues and financial leakage.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops, discovery sessions, and executive presentations to align business and technology teams on findings and recommendations.
• Develop actionable remediation roadmaps, business cases, risk assessments, and transformation strategies that improve operational performance and reduce business risk.
Work model:
We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.
What you need to have to be considered:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in healthcare consulting, business transformation, program management, or healthcare operations.
• Strong experience with QNXT and healthcare payer platforms, including claims, benefits, enrollments, and authorization workflows.
• Experience working with Pega-based healthcare workflows, care management, or authorization management processes.
• Proven expertise in healthcare process analysis, stakeholder management, business requirements, and current-state/future-state process mapping.
• Experience conducting system integration reviews, data lineage assessments, reconciliation analysis, and business impact evaluations.
• Strong communication and executive presentation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across business and technology organizations.
• Experience creating executive-level deliverables, recommendations, remediation roadmaps, and transformation strategies.
These will help you stand out:
• Experience supporting Molina Healthcare or other Medicaid and LTSS-focused healthcare organizations.
• Knowledge of healthcare claims processing, financial workflows, payment integrity, and leakage analysis.
• Experience leading enterprise assessments involving interoperability, data governance, and technology modernization initiatives.
• Familiarity with healthcare regulatory requirements, managed care operations, and value-based care environments.
• Experience with business architecture, process mining, workflow optimization, or healthcare transformation consulting engagements.
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
Total Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $81,450 - $129,500 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
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
Things to know before you apply
- Work authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
- Accommodations: If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
- AI in hiring: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications more efficiently. Our team performs additional human review and ultimately decides who moves forward in our hiring process.
- Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
- Language proficiency: We ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
- Inclusion: Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
