[Hiring] Workday Industry Strategist - Healthcare & FSI @Cognizant

Role Description

Cognizant is seeking a Workday Healthcare Industry Strategist - Healthcare & FSI to lead our joint healthcare growth motion with Workday. This role will connect market strategy, executive relationships, and a differentiated payor solution built around Workday, TriZetto Facets and QNXT, and AI-enabled accelerators. The leader will create qualified pipeline, shape strategic pursuits, establish lighthouse clients, and build a repeatable industry offering, with a secondary mandate to adapt the solution pattern for Financial Services.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the healthcare target-account strategy, account tiering, sales plays, and joint execution plans with Workday.
• Build executive relationships with health plans, Workday leaders, and Cognizant client teams to generate and advance qualified opportunities.
• Shape strategic pursuits through industry value propositions, competitive positioning, executive narratives, and co-sell models.
• Lead productization of the payor solution across Workday Financials and HCM, TriZetto Facets and QNXT, AI agents, healthcare data models, and packaged accelerators.
• Secure lighthouse clients and convert outcomes into references, case studies, and reusable sales and delivery assets.
• Represent healthcare priorities with Workday product and industry teams, including roadmap input and solution governance.
• Partner with the FSI strategist to adapt applicable close, allocation, reconciliation, and integration capabilities for insurance and banking.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of healthcare payor technology, consulting, or industry experience, including knowledge of Facets, QNXT, or a comparable core administration platform.
• Strong understanding of payer finance, including claims-to-ledger, medical loss ratio, premium billing, and statutory reporting.
• Deep Workday fluency across Financial Management, Accounting Center, HCM, Adaptive Planning, Prism Analytics, and AI or agent capabilities.
• Experience taking an industry solution, integration, or accelerator from concept through productization and commercial launch.
• Executive presence with C-suite buyers and partner-sales leadership, combined with the ability to align business, product, technology, and sales stakeholders.
• Commercial track record in pipeline creation, opportunity shaping, and complex partner-led sales.
• Experience with Workday, TriZetto, a health plan, or a payer-focused technology company; marketplace or ISV certification; exposure to Financial Services; and experience designing governed AI-native or agentic solutions.

Measures of success

• Build a qualified, sourced Workday pipeline and progress priority healthcare account plans.
• Launch two lighthouse clients and publish at least one client reference.
• Advance the TriZetto-Workday productization and marketplace path.
• Achieve a repeatable healthcare solution and prepare the Financial Services solution port.

Salary and Other Compensation

Applications will be accepted until 01/24/2027. The annual salary for this position is between USD 108,500 - USD 178,000 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits

• 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

Why choose Cognizant

• Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
• Opportunity to do great work
• Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
• Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
• Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
• An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs

Cognizant Core Values

• Work as One: We think beyond roles, relying on each other’s strengths to win as a team.
• Raise the Bar: We always aim for excellence in how we work and what we deliver.
• Dare to Innovate: We push boundaries and take chances to reimagine what’s possible.
• Do the Right Thing: We all lead with integrity and always make the ethical choice.
• Own It: We own the outcomes for our company, colleagues, and community.