Product Owner/Senior Consultant, Cognizant Consulting

Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy and Utilities (MLEU)

Location - Plano , TX

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 .

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 several 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

Our MLEU group is looking for a Senior Consultant to join our journey. We're looking for someone who has experience with Future state process definition for AR/AP for freight brokerage, drayage, warehousing and managed services businesses.. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for building / leading / transformation and analyzing data.

We're looking for Senior Consultants 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 Consultant (which is a Manager level position) this means leading a team of Consultants through a client-facing engagement, managing escalations, and serving as a the owner of a workstream; maintaining expertise in your domain; meaningfully contributing to the sales process through a mix of RPI development, client presentations, financial modeling, pricing strategy, and flawless delivery; creating service offerings and/or client partner training materials; and contributing to PeopleCare initiatives, recruiting, and mentoring. 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

• Consult directly with our clients and provide advisory services designed to help them solve their most complex business and technology challenges
• Manage and direct a small-to-medium team of Consultants through client engagement, analysis, business case development, and the development of focused and contextual solutions
• Lead communications with project stakeholders, including status reporting, priority setting, and timely issue resolution
• Contribute to the thought leadership of your practice and contribute to one or more practice initiatives or service offerings (e.g., Strategic Consulting Points (SCPs), the building of consulting assets or solutions)
• Maintain expertise in your industry or capability group: Future state process definition for AR/AP for freight brokerage, drayage, warehousing and managed services businesses.
• Encourage and facilitate the business development activities of project teams through activities such as opportunity validation, strategy approval, RFI support, storyline, proposals, & client presentations
• Engage with client contacts to generate leads and identify new opportunities for consulting services.
• Recognize, capture, store, and promote the sharing of engagement collateral and IP (e.g., blogs, white papers, case-studies, articles)
• Supports the implementation of one or more practice initiatives or service offerings (e.g., Strategic Control Points (SCP), consulting assets, solutions)
• Serve as a people leader within Consulting, supporting professional development of the team
• Conduct recruitment activities, support onboarding, contribute or conduct performance reviews, lead career growth discussions with Business Analysts, Consultants, and Senior Consultants.

Qualifications

Must Have Skills

1. Strong Agile Product Owner experience
2. Hands on expertise in Agile tools (JIRA and Confluence)
3. Leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach and mentor other team members
4. Able to develop and deliver all or subsets of the artifacts (i.e., user stories, test scenarios) for group and other teams
5. Expert in product management techniques such as user story mapping, carving out Minimum Viable Products, identify improvements for improving cycle time and throughput
6. Ability to work with large cross functional teams in an onsite offshore mode of delivery

Desired Skills (Nice to have)

7. Automotive Industry Experience
8. Consulting experience working in the capacity of client advisor
9. Pre sales experience/ interest
10. Technical knowledge (cloud implementations/ data analytics)

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.)

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Mar 08 2024

About Cognizant

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