Associate Director - Tech Consulting

Senior Manager - Business Strategy, Tech Consulting

Telecom, Media & Technology Industry

Remote

ABOUT US

Cognizant 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, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 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.

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we’re growing!

The Role

Cognizant Technology Industry Practice is changing the game for our clients within the tech industry by helping reevaluate business models, shift rapidly to digital, transform customer experiences and supply chains and streamline efficient operations. We deliver all this through combining innovative approaches to technology, process and organizational design, adopting design thinking and rapid prototyping techniques to start putting strategy into action.

We strategically drive modern engineering practices and ways of working, along with helping clients in all aspects of enterprise technology solution modernization.

We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Cognizant Consulting who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior Manager, this means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, consultatively working with a client to achieve business goals, driving contributions to offerings and innovations, and serving as a people leader, guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client and the world. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Engagement Lead and manage teams of Consultants, Senior Consultants, and Managers for one or more commercial projects to ensure effective negotiations, well-aligned solution-delivery-to-plan, clear engagement governance accountabilities, profitability, and overall client satisfaction.
• Enrich client partnering and anticipate client needs based on a solid understanding of emerging industry requirements and/or technological breakthroughs.
• Ensures the appropriate alignment and collaboration of consulting teams and individuals to support project requirements and activities in the focus area and within larger Cognizant and client ecosystems.
• Serve as a people leader, supporting the recruitment, onboarding, upskilling, and mentorship of your colleagues in Consulting; participate in people development and community-building activities.
• Guide development, provide feedback, and conduct performance reviews.
• Advocate for and establish appropriate recognition for Consulting within project and negotiate applicable consultant rates in project sizing that correspond to the value Consultants contribute to engagements.
• Develop and manage the capture, communication, and sharing of intellectual property (IP) and project artifacts for a focus area, domain area, or practice management area.
• Exercise leadership in the development of Consulting service offerings.
• Leverage collegial networks across Cognizant (e.g., sales, service line community, offshore delivery) and external partners to innovate solutioning or resolve issues; and
• Support and contribute to the establishment of thought leadership in the industry, to promote Cognizant’s brand and to drive additional opportunities for Cognizant.

Qualifications:

• Typically, 15+ years of experience within the technology (or adjacent) industry or consulting to the industry to gain a deep understanding of the winning strategies, technologies used, value chains, processes of one or more of semiconductors, electronics, OEMs, distributors, software or platforms companies.
• Typically, 10+ years of IT Domain expertise within this industry gained in development, integration, architecture, systems and financial planning.
• Domain expertise in at least one of Enterprise Systems (Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, HCM), Sales, Marketing, Billing, Customer Support, Product Design & Development, Manufacturing gained within the technology industry context.
• Expertise in one or more of the following core areas – Business Intelligence/ Dashboarding/ AI; Product Management & Engineering/ DevSecOps/ Agile; Customer & Employee Experience; Billing and Financial Management; Supply Chain; Cloud Migration; Application Modernization
• Experience with hands-on design and implementation work to get projects off the ground, determine solutions and drive improvements to existing projects – including expertise in building sprint backlogs.
• Acts as the Engagement Lead and manages teams of Consultants, Senior Consultants, and Senior Consulting Managers for one or more commercial projects to ensure effective negotiations, well-aligned solution-delivery-to-plan, clear engagement governance accountabilities, profitability, and overall client satisfaction.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and/or leading a team and able to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Reviews project deliverables across workstreams from the perspective of QA, requirements alignment, and solution integration
• Works directly with clients as an engagement lead to validate and leverage project success as the basis both for reinforcing positive client relationships and stimulating pull-through or repeat business.
• Experience working in client facing roles interacting with key stake holders to lead the engagement and manage the team and all expected outcomes.

Work Authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)