Manager Consulting, Cognizant Consulting
Manufacturing
Chicago
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
We’re looking for 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 Manager, Consulting (which is a Senior Manager level position) this means 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 People Care 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
- Leading Business Transformation for clients across the value chain across Design- Sales & OM-Sourcing-Procurement-Manufacturing- Aftermarket & Distribution
- Deep expertise in serving industrial and process-oriented clients within manufacturing sector and provide tailored solutions that address their specific needs
- Be the strategic partner and provide strategic guidance and solutions to clients in the manufacturing industry.
- Collaborate with cross-functional Cognizant teams to deliver process improvements and operational excellence.
- Well versed and have proven experience in designing, developing strategies across various aspects of Industrial manufacturing i.e. Plan-Source-Make-Deliver- Support ( for example: supply chain strategies, including inventory management, demand forecasting, and logistics optimization etc.)
- Experience on managing consulting led downstream programs
- Be the navigator for clients and provide consulting value proposition around cost-saving opportunities and operational efficiencies
- Should be able to generate data led insights for clients
- Should have experience in consulting clients around functional Manufacturing & related modules for at least one or two ERP platforms (SAP, Oracle etc.)
- Manage client relationships, ensuring successful project delivery.
- Driving thought leadership agenda for the BU including authoring white papers, workshops, webinars, etc.
- 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.
- Advocate for and establish appropriate recognition for Consulting within projects and negotiate applicable consultant rates in project sizing that correspond to the value Consultants contribute to engagements.
- Exercise leadership in the development of Consulting service offerings.
- Leverage collegial networks across Cognizant (e.g., sales, service line community, offshore delivery) and externs 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
- The track record and experience to achieve the above, which includes ideally 10+ years of management consulting experience, where at least 2 of those (though ideally 4+) have been Digital technology (business or technical consultative) team lead experience
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as Information Technology, Business, Communications, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Engineering, or equivalent
- The ability to set and manage multiple project plans for a single client; a command of project management principles and a track record of applying them to drive transformation successfully
- Experience leading technical and non-technical initiatives; previous experience coordinating workstreams in multi-team projects, ideally using an onsite / offshore model
- Leadership skills that bring out the best in others; the ability to oversee multiple Consultants and non-consultants who are working toward a common goal – the best possible outcome for a client
- A desire to work with enterprise-level clients and the ability to manage through complexity
- Relevant domain, industry, or product certifications, depending on your industry/capability majors and minors (Manufacturing)
- Experience with program quality frameworks, methods, and tools (e.g., Six Sigma)
- MBA or PGDM degree Preferred
- Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes; the embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Start with a point of view; Seek data, build knowledge; Always strive, never settle; Work as one; Create conditions for everyone to thrive; Do the right thing, the right way.
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.)
