Assoc Partner, Consult Partner - Cloud / Healthcare (Payors)

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.

The Role

Kyndryl Consult is the fastest growing business within the organization and instrumental to the company’s strategic growth objectives. You will play a key leadership role across multi-disciplinary teams, guiding them through complex consulting engagements and creating strategic change agendas for Kyndryl's largest healthcare accounts across the C-suite—spanning the intersection between complex Payor Business Strategy, IT modernization, and health plan ecosystem transformations.

As a Consult Partner - Healthcare (Payors), you will drive profitable growth by leveraging our comprehensive hybrid cloud, infrastructure, and core modernization capabilities. You will build deep client relationships and lead senior teams to deliver high-value outcomes in the North Texas market and beyond. This role demands a strong presence, deep payor domain expertise (spanning core admin systems, digital health integration, claims, and cloud modernizations), and the ability to cultivate relationships with CXO-level health plan executives.

Leading client engagements across both pre- and post-deal phases, you will guide strategy through execution—ensuring high quality, measurable financial impact, and seamless operational delivery across complex health plan architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Contribute to Profitable Growth:

• Drive significant financial outcomes through signings and revenue targets within the Healthcare and Payor sector.

• Ensure sustained growth and profitability, managing margin expectations and backlog growth across complex technology transformations.

• Support the identification, pursuit, and conversion of a business development pipeline focused on health plan modernization, cloud migration, and core systems execution.

• Undertake scoping and fee negotiation on engagements, ensuring profitability while containing operational and compliance risks inherent in large payor environments.

Client Engagement:

• Build and maintain deep relationships with health plan CXOs, VPs of IT/Operations, and Business Unit Leaders, serving as a trusted advisor on digital transformation and infrastructure modernization.

• Lead C-level client interactions, consulting initiatives, and high-impact deliverables for major healthcare accounts.

• Demonstrate deep credibility in advising on complex payor challenges—such as legacy mainframe modernization, core administrative processing platforms, digital member engagement, and interoperability.

• Enhance client satisfaction as measured by Net Promoter Score (NPS) and secure executive client references.

Operational Excellence:

• Achieve individual and team utilization targets.

• Lead the design of complex payor technology engagements and take full oversight of delivery, ensuring high performance, stability, and customer satisfaction.

Leadership, Management & People:

• Lead by example; foster a culture of continuous personal and professional development while challenging teams to be curious, innovative, and supportive.

• Ensure all engagement outcomes are commercially focused, value-adding, and effectively executed to solve real-world payor operational challenges.

Strategic Contribution:

• Utilize payor industry and technology expertise to shape and drive Kyndryl’s strategic healthcare initiatives.

• Align with Kyndryl’s strategic vision and contribute directly to its execution across the Dallas/DFW healthcare ecosystem.

• Drive external eminence, establishing a strong personal and organizational brand in the payor and health tech space.

• Proactively develop thought leadership around health plan modernization, AI/automation in claims and member services, and scalable hybrid cloud architectures.

Kyndryl currently does not require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, however, if you are hired to work at a client, customer, or partner location, you may be required to show proof of vaccination to align with their respective COVID-19 vaccination policies.  Those who believe they are eligible may apply for a medical or religious accommodation prior to the start of employment.

Who You Are

Who You Are

You’re exceptional at what you do and possess the healthcare payor track record to prove it. You understand the unique balance between operational stability, regulatory compliance, and rapid digital innovation.

Equally important, you bring a growth mindset—driven to sharpen your own strategic capability while elevating those around you. You are customer-focused, prioritizing the long-term success of health plans and their members, and open and borderless—naturally collaborative across complex cross-functional teams.

Required Skills and Experience

• Deep Healthcare Payor Domain Expertise: Extensive experience navigating health plan business operations, core administrative processing systems (CAPS), claims processing, member/provider digital platforms, or value-based care technology ecosystems.

• Strong Cloud & Modernization Knowledge: Proven background advising on enterprise IT transformations, including mainframe-to-cloud modernizations, hybrid cloud architectures, and digital health integrations.

• Executive Leadership: Demonstrated success engaging, advising, and commercializing relationships at the C-suite/VP level within major health insurance or healthcare technology organizations.

• Consulting & Execution Track Record: Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary teams through complex, high-value consulting engagements in a corporate payor, consulting, or health tech environment.

• Financial Acumen: Strong commercial leadership with a track record of driving revenue growth, managing engagement margins, and shaping multi-million dollar deals.

• Dallas / Texas Market Familiarity: Strong understanding of regional healthcare dynamics, payor landscape, and enterprise transformation needs in the North Texas region.

• Thought Leadership & Innovation: Proven ability to drive change, leverage emerging capabilities (like responsible AI and automation), and elevate organizational brand presence.

The compensation range for the position in the U.S. is - $185,760 to $334,320 based on a full-time schedule.  

Your actual compensation may vary depending on your geography, job-related skills and experience.  For part time roles, the compensation will be adjusted appropriately. The pay or salary range will not be below any applicable state, city or local minimum wage requirement.

There is a different applicable compensation range for the following work locations:

California (San Francisco Bay Area): $222,960 to $401,160

California (All Other): $204,360 to $367,800

Colorado: $185,760 to $334,320

Massachusetts: $185,760 to $367,800

New York City: $222,960 to $401,160

Washington: $204,360 to $367,800

Washington DC: $204,360 to $367,800

This position will be eligible for Kyndryl’s discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Kyndryl’s applicable plans. You may also receive a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off.  Note: If this is a sales commission eligible role, you will be eligible to participate in a sales commission plan in lieu of the annual discretionary bonus program.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Being You

Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it’s how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we’re not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you – and everyone next to you – the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That’s the Kyndryl Way.

What You Can Expect

With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter – wherever you are in your life journey. Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations.  At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.

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