George Tharakan Varkey
Director - Healthcare Delivery
- Role
- Director Projects - Healthcare Delivery at Cognizant
- Location
- Chennai, TN, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About George Tharakan Varkey
A Dynamic and highly motivated IT Delivery Director with 22 years of experience in handling large IT programs and portfolios across Manufacturing & Logistics, Retail and Healthcare Payer domain. Exhibits thorough knowledge in Healthcare Payer domain with 10+ years of experience in managing fortune 50 HC Payer customer.Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions in Delivery Management, Account Management and People management backed by a Management Degree from IIM-B.As Digital portfolio lead, worked on large scale proposals, successfully executed large strategic programs involving Digital, Cloud, Products for healthcare payer customers. Worked with customer in building Digital/ Cloud migration road map/strategies. Possessing an excellent track record in managing large portfolios with a P&L responsibility for $50M with excellent customer satisfaction scores.Experienced in servicing large platinum customers handling teams across multiple geographies (Europe, India and US). Handled Account management, Operations, Large program executions, New ODC setup. Managed programs /portfolios with multinational clients like Centene, DP DHL, Kodak, Ford, GM, Volkswagen, 3M.Expertise in- Providing technology and delivery leadership, Architecture and continuous Product / process improvement- Digital and Cloud migration strategies- Healthcare Payer domain and applications across Commercial, Medicare,Medicaid and Federal Line of Business- Managing and motivating Talent- Managing Multi tower and Multi-location delivery management through traditional and Agile methodologies- Executing Large program Management- Continuous improvements through automation and modernization- Large portfolio, program and account Management- Expert in end to end process of Offshore delivery Centre set up
Experience
Director Projects - Healthcare Delivery
Jun 2022 — Present · Chennai, IN
Responsible for Delivery & operations of multiple accounts in Healthcare Payer domain. Managing P&L for 120M with 700 FTEs across shores. Leading team in executing large scale transformation projects, scaling up smaller accounts to growth path.
Education
ER&DCI
P.G Diploma, Software
1998 — 1999
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
General Management Program - Executive, Business Administration and Management, General
2012 — 2013
St. Berchmans College, Changanacherry
MSc, Physics
1995 — 1997
C.M.S school Pallom
SSLC, Metriculation
1985 — 1990
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