Product Manager (Hybrid)

Title: Solution Owner

Location: Mesa, AZ – Hybrid (3 days’ onsite and 2 days’ work from home)

Job ID: 00057963981

 

Build a Meaningful Career and Transform Healthcare with Cognizant TriZetto

When you join Cognizant’s TriZetto Product House you not only touch the future, but you shape the next generation of healthcare.  Come be part of a culture that Innovates through hackathons, celebrates through numerous rewards and recognition programs, and recreates through various flexible workforce benefits supporting a healthy work/life balance.  Apply today and begin building a meaningful career that matters. 

Authoring business requirements for functionality to be delivered as part of the TriZetto product portfolio. Collaborating with other stakeholders to create the high-level designs and the detailed functional design artifacts that will be used to develop TriZetto products and solutions. Serving as a subject matter expert in all areas of the software development life cycle (i.e., software engineering, quality assurance, and technical communications), assists customer support, sales and consulting/implementation services.

 

Job Title: Solution Owner

Role: Individual Contributor External Facing Role

Essential Functions:

·       Manage the entire product lifecycle for assigned solutions, from understanding market to prioritizing enhancements for development. Own the successful delivery of new releases through initiative ideation, development, beta and launch.

·       Evangelize the value of our solution to both internal stakeholders and externally to prospective and existing customers at events. Create and commercialize new offers in the marketplace.

·       Work closely with PM leadership on how product strategy impacts the solution. Monitor and manage successful delivery of features defined in the solution roadmap with respective teams throughout the development life cycle. Identify risks and remove impediments, discover opportunities for improvement, and keep senior management and others informed.

·       Run customer groups as required. Represent solution in sales meetings, QBRs and other strategic sessions. Create roadmaps and present to prospects and internal customers.

·       Negotiate internal and external customer requests, industry and marketplace changes, and company strategic initiatives to manage development capacity or services expansion to meet customers' needs and the company's strategic vision.

·       Maintain a solid understanding of the marketplace to ensure that the right solutions or services are available at the right time.

·       Assist with the management of a current portfolio, including packaging and pricing, and assist in developing business cases to bring new initiatives to market. Work closely with Sales and Accounting to resolve any client payment issues related to solutions or services. Provide tactical support to other internal initiatives such as sales training, collateral development, and solution performance.

 

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. An equivalent combination of education and work experience may be taken into consideration instead of a degree.

Required Experience:

Minimum of four years related experience in a software development environment.

Desired Experience:

·       Experience in facilitation, negotiation, and influencing preferred.

·       Healthcare (Health Plan) industry experience preferred.

 

Behavioral Competencies:

·       Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of management.

·       Strong presentation skills with the ability to present to all levels of management.

 

Technical Competencies:

·       Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

·       Good to excellent facilitation, negotiation, influencing and problem solving skills.

 

Limited Travel

Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, creativity, productivity, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration.

If you are content with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!

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Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Feb 28 2024

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @USJobsCognizant.

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