Sr. Consulting Manager- Manufacturing & Logistics

Sr. Consulting Manager, Cognizant Consulting

Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy & Utilities Consulting

Raleigh, NC, USA

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

Our Manufacturing, logistics, Energy and utilities group is looking for a Sr. Consulting Manager to join our journey. We're looking for someone who is a strong product owner/ manager in the logistics and tolling domain.

We're looking for Senior Consulting Managers 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 Sr. Consulting Manager (Senior 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

• Work with clients to establish a clear connection between business goals/strategies to capability development, and implementation to achieving desired business value.
• Define product / platform strategies and solutions focused on tolling
• Understand the scope and define business requirements with the business stakeholders
• Map business processes to identify improvement in tolling back-office operations
• End to end requirements management of products (requirement gathering, conduct requirement walkthrough sessions)
• Prepare functional use cases, detailed user stories
• Experience in JIRA or Azure Dev Ops
• Backlog grooming
• Validate UX / UI for every feature / function
• Demonstrate functionalities to client product management teams (internal/external)
• Review test plans prepared by QA Team
• Support UAT
• Assist in resolving scope and requirements related queries
• Manage change requests / enhancements / features
• Work with cross-functional teams with different time zones
• Advanced problem solving skills
• Ability to articulate requirements (good communication)
• Create and maintain long-term working relationships with technology teams, functional counterparts, vendors, and business partners.

Qualifications

• The track record and experience to achieve the above, which includes ideally 8- 10 years of management consulting experience in the logistics and transportation industry, where at least 2 of those (though ideally 4+) have been Digital technology (business or technical consultative) team lead experience
• Bachelor's or master's degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience, with additional certifications preferred, but not mandatory

• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think strategically.

• Exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.

• Show proficiency in project management methodologies and tools.

• Have a proven track record of delivering successful consulting projects.

• Display a deep understanding of the automotive sector including market trends and challenges.

• Be adept at using data analytics to drive decision-making and strategy development.
• Be capable of working effectively in a hybrid work model balancing remote and in-office responsibilities.

• Show a commitment to continuous improvement and staying current with industry advancements.

• Exhibit strong leadership qualities with the ability to mentor and develop junior team members.

• Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes; the embodiment of Cognizant's Core Values of: Work as one, Raise the bar, dare to innovate, Do the right thing, Own it

• Ability to travel if needed for business requirements

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.)

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• 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

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.