Sr. Consultant

Domain - Health care

Join Cognizant's Healthcare Consulting team and help shape the future of healthcare through digital transformation and innovation. We are looking for professionals with experience in public sector healthcare organizations, digital maturity assessments, and large-scale transformation programme delivery. Collaborate with healthcare providers, payers, and government agencies to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency. Drive strategic initiatives that accelerate healthcare modernization and technology adoption.

Job Summary

As our Senior Manager in Public Sector Consulting you'll lead sales delivery and relationship management across our health care consulting team. You'll be a front facing leader who can shape opportunities, create practical proposals and then deliver programmes of work end end supporting operational performance enhancement strategy and planning and digitally enabled healthcare and data driven transformation.

Responsibilities

• Business Development 25 Proactively defining opportunities for business transformation operational improvement cost reduction and service optimization
• Strategic Planning 25 Developing strategic recommendations business plans and actionable solutions for client challenges
• Client Management 25 Engaging with employees and stakeholders leading workshops and presenting findings to executive level staff
• Implementation Support 25 Planning and overseeing the execution of new systems processes or structural changes

Essential Skills

• Work with clients to understand their needs define and assess possible strategies and identify new project ideas
• Conduct assessments with healthcare clients to identify and prioritize areas of business improvement
• Lead programme teams to design and deliver business solutions that meet the clients business goals and can be successfully implemented within the unique client environment
• Build business cases for clients to support investment into business transformation programme
• Work closely with technologists to the map business needs to technology investments and design effective technical solutions
• Support the development of roadmaps that guide clients through business transformation
• Develop and deliver work output to C level executives
• Design new approaches to monitor the effectiveness of solutions and demonstrate tangible business value
• Ensure excellent communication and alignment with clients on project programme execution
• Support business development activities including proposal development tender responses and ongoing client engagement
• Assist in the development of service offerings that reflect client needs and present compelling solutions to the market
• Help to analyze key healthcare market trends forces and identify new opportunities for services to the healthcare provider market
• Provide coaching to junior graduate consultants and help them refine their skills and domain knowledge
• Assist in the development of thought leadership pieces that will enhance our brand in the market
• Maintain good communication with practice leadership and support collaboration sharing of ideas and best practices

Other

• Travel to client sites may be needed estimated 2 or 3 days per week
• Ability to grow accounts and develop new client relationships
• Ability to work in a wide variety of client settings
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to balance client work with business development support