Senior Director, Cognizant Consulting

United States

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 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 Retail, Consumer Goods Consulting Practice is looking for a Senior Director, Consulting to join us on our journey to become the preeminent technology services partner to the Global 2000.

With the onset of the pandemic and the rapid change in the needs of the consumers, the Retail. Consumer Goods Industries have been through enormous changes. Given these industries are closest to the consumers, digital transformation is a necessity to acquire a competitive edge and to stay ahead of the market.

Cognizant Consulting, with the exemplary knowledge and the expertise of our consultants, not only help businesses understand the current state but also help in anticipating changes and future needs. We partner with leading companies to create digital solutions at scale to help them drive enhanced customer experiences, intelligent operations, core modernization, and smart supply chain management. With our experience of serving global leaders, we help consumer-facing businesses address challenges in data & analytics, process improvements & digital transformation starting from strategy to execution and last-mile implementation. We are looking for pure-play management consulting leaders with expertise in Retail/Consumer Goods.

To be successful, we're looking for Consultants who exemplify Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. At the Senior Director Level, this means driving cost effective end-to-end execution of consultant engagements, cultivating practice innovations, achieving financial targets (utilization, expenditures, revenue, margin), promoting Cognizant Consulting's vision & mission, and building high performing teams across the organization. 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 a Consulting Leader, bringing your areas of domain expertise to Cognizant's clients, as we engineer modern businesses to improve everyday life
• Own and develop a book of business and actively engage in business development efforts, often owning quota for accounts, and ensuring profitable growth for the practice and for Cognizant
• Exercise quality assurance for engagements within your remit
• Engage in key account expansion, sales leadership, and internal executive stakeholder partnering based upon an expert understanding of such things as emerging market trends, client business direction, client requirements, evolving regulatory contexts and the feasibility of transformation goals
• Maintain expertise in your industry Of Retail Consumer Goods
• Establish and nurture relationships with cross-functional client executives and strive to serve as their trusted advisor
• Leverage industry expertise and market sensibilities to propose forward-leaning refinement or extension of Cognizant's Advisory Capabilities (offerings)
• Support and develop a long-term vision for the practice
• Work with others to standardize consulting tools, methods, curricula, and career development requirements
• Partner with recruitment to attract high caliber consulting talent and the creation of a strong talent pipeline
• Mentor and coach consulting associates; lead people development and community-building activities
• Author thought leadership insights on behalf of the practice and advocates within Cognizant for the recognition of Consulting's contribution to Cognizant's profitability and market brand
• Participate in industry panels and forums to promote Cognizant's capabilities; gather insights on emerging business needs, requirements, technology, and competitive challenges
• Lead in the creation of robust IP repositories and knowledge-sharing strategies to enhance practice effectiveness and cross-practice community building and act as a visible and respected spokesperson for Cognizant's' Advisory Practice

Qualifications

• 15-20 + years of experience in deep domain or extensive cross-sector business management, including the creation and go-to-market execution of practice offers (pricing, resourcing, marketing) in Retail Consumer Goods Industry.
• A background of extensive management consulting leadership.
• A successful track record of setting and achieving engagement targets, controlling budgets, managing forecasts, and driving an organization of professional consultants in winning business and achieving financial targets
• Possessing a robust network of contacts and presence in professional organizations and industry forums
• International experience supporting or driving global initiatives is a plus
• Experience in building results-oriented, high-performing consulting teams or organizations recognized for excellence
• 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.

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Apr 01 2024

About Cognizant

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