Senior Director

Cognizant is always looking for top talent. We are searching for candidates to fill future needs within the business. This job posting represents potential future employment opportunities with Cognizant. Although the position is not currently available, we want to provide you with the opportunity to express your interest in future employment opportunities with Cognizant. If a job opportunity that you may be qualified for becomes available in the future, we will notify you. At that time you can determine whether you would like to apply for the specific open position. Thank you for your interest in Cognizant career opportunities.

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 is increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner.

The Role

Our Health Sciences Consulting Practice is one of the most prominent and significant in the industry. And we’re growing We’re looking for a leader to join us in as a Senior Director in our Consulting practice. This role will report to the VP, Consulting – Health Sciences, and will focus on the Provider segment at the intersection of business and technology, helping lead the way as we continue to scale our business. Significant experience with stakeholders in the provider segment is required. Candidates should have worked across multiple lines of business including commercial and government programs (e.g., Medicare Advantage, managed Medicaid).

In healthcare, meeting next-generation consumer expectations means creating unified experiences across physical, digital, and stakeholder silos. To achieve success, Cognizant helps organizations modernize foundational IT infrastructure and move to an ecosystem-based operating model that prioritizes collaboration, agility and resilience while delivering the care experiences that consumers demand. We’re looking for an industry expert to bring consulting-led change across a vast industry that has an appetite for innovation. The right leader is someone who clients see as a credible healthcare and technology executive who can assess and inspire change across heavily matrixed and regulated environments, and at the same time stay nimble and future-ready as we move more deeply toward a digital-health future.

To achieve this, you’ll need the right experience, the right mindset, and the right connections within healthcare. As a Senior Director in our practice, we’re looking for someone who is a leader in their field, can build and sell advisory services that changes the everyday life, and can lead teams of consultants to outcomes that truly change the world. While you’re at it, you’ll be surrounded by highly competent and engaged colleagues, and you may be glad to know that Cognizant was ranked the #2 overall provider and was rated #1 in HCP Services innovation in its latest report, “HFS Top 10: HCP Service Providers, 2022.”

We’re really excited about this opportunity and we’re looking for the right person to join us in this critical role. Our solutions are in ever-increasing demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have deep industry experience with providers, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you can bring expertise, vision, and execution; if you want to lead an industry to new heights and grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you

Responsibilities

· Serve as a Consulting Leader in the Provider segment, bringing healthcare expertise to Cognizant’s clients, as we engineer modern businesses to improve everyday life

· Manage end-to-end responsibilities for management consulting engagements in areas of control

· Ensure the business viability of complex solutions for Cognizant in key accounts for our Health Sciences practice

· Continuously assess the business for profitability and initiate remedial interventions where needed

· Formalize best-in-class practices, pursue the development of consulting thought leadership, and participate in industry forums and conferences to establish and enhance Cognizant’s brand

· Exercise financial accountability and responsibility for revenues and margin growth in practice area

· Ensure appropriate pricing for consultants across engagements and promotes the education of project teams on consultative value

· Establish and nurture relationships with client executives in assigned accounts and serves as their trusted advisor

· Build or facilitate the route to market of innovative practice solutions

· Actively build the consulting practice community by driving consensus about and standardization on best practices

· Manages and mentors a team of direct reports and the overarching recruitment, onboarding, development, and engagement of consultants.

· Author thought leadership insights on behalf of the practice and advocates within Cognizant for the recognition of Consulting’s contribution to Cognizant’s profitability and market brand

Qualifications

· 15+ years of executive-level business or operations management experience, including the application of different pricing models, risk management interventions, and resource allocation strategies; at least 10 of which are management consulting experience (business or technology)

· Extensive domain knowledge and experience in Healthcare (provider) including government programs (e.g., Medicare Advantage, managed Medicaid, etc.)

· Experience in managing operations and growing key account business satisfaction, including budget forecasts, and consultant staffing and development

· Strong network of industry connections and presence in professional organizations and industry forums

· Experience in managing operations and growing key account business satisfaction, including budget forecasts, and consultant staffing and development

· Experience in building results-oriented, high-performing consulting teams or organizations recognized for excellence

· An educational background to support the above; Bachelor’s degree required; MBA Preferred

· Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes; the embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Start with a point of view; Seek data, build knowledge; Always strive, never settle; Work as one; Create conditions for everyone to thrive; Do the right thing, the right way.

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.)