Hiring: Healthcare Payer Bid Manager (Remote) Company: Cognizant Location: Malvern, PA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:37:17 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Medicaid, Medicare About the job Experience: •8+ years of experience in healthcare payer operations, bid management, proposal management, pursuit management, consulting, or healthcare BPaaS services, including demonstrated experience leading large, complex healthcare payer RFP pursuits. Required Skills: •In this role, you will •Lead end-to-end bid management for healthcare payer opportunities, including RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, renewals, BAFO submissions, and strategic proposal responses, building the plans, schedules, governance checkpoints, and content timelines that keep every submission on track and compliant. •Coordinate cross-functional pursuit teams spanning sales, solution architects, operations, transition, pricing, technology, legal, compliance, and executive leadership, and facilitate kickoffs, strategy sessions, color team reviews, and submission readiness assessments. •Ensure all customer requirements are analyzed, tracked, and addressed through compliance matrices and response management processes, and drive quality reviews for consistency, accuracy, completeness, and alignment with client evaluation criteria. •Support solutioning teams in shaping healthcare payer operating models, transformation roadmaps, automation strategies, and BPaaS solutions, and help craft value propositions, executive summaries, win themes, and business outcome messaging. •Serve as the central point of coordination across pursuits, prepare executives for client presentations and proposal defenses, deliver executive-level status reporting, and identify risks, assumptions, and dependencies early with clear mitigation plans. Qualifications: •In-depth knowledge of healthcare payer functions including Claims, Enrollment and Eligibility, Premium Billing, Contact Center, Provider Services, Utilization Management, Payment Integrity, and Care Management. •Strong project management, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent pursuits under aggressive deadlines. •Operational familiarity with Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, Commercial, ACA, Duals, and related healthcare payer markets. •Recent experience in a similar role within a large matrixed organization, directly supporting medium to large healthcare payer clients. •If you are ready to shape winning pursuits that transform how healthcare payers operate, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to join Cognizant. Compensation: •$110,000 - $140,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!