Senior Consultant - Transportation Industry

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The Company

Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 350,000 employees as of January 2024. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

Cognizant Consulting

At Cognizant, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge to deliver insight at speed and solutions at scale. Our consulting services elevate the unique abilities and business aspirations of customers and employees and build relationships based on trust and value.

As a member of one of Cognizant's fastest-growing consulting practices, the successful candidate must be able to integrate well and develop their leadership within a global matrixed organization, working collaboratively in agile environments with subject matter experts and technologists to develop sound enterprise architectures, technology strategies and solutions.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Full project life cycle change or product management experience with demonstrable knowledge of different project delivery approaches (agile waterfall)
• Previous experience of Project manager/ Consultant roles in Business & Technology and Digital Transformation projects involving any of the Hyperscalers with clients helping them to achieve their business technology strategic and operational goals.
• Strong experience in travel domain (preferably Aviation Airports/Airlines & Cruises) with good understanding of the industry and its challenges.
• Experience of using various to tools to create the end-to-end plan with all the dependencies identified from initiation to delivery.
• Experience of writing business cases from a problem statement with the rationale and benefits identified.
• End to end financial management experience of the project spend and forecast spend.
• Governance and Reporting Experience to setting up governance and reporting structure and run meetings effectively along with/without PMO function.
• RAID management Identify and track risk and issues regularly and escalate when required for speedy resolution.
• Experience of managing and working with cross functional and distributed teams in large scale project delivery with internal and external resources in multiple geographies.
• Success in working with Product Managers/owners UX copy writers and engineering teams to create next generation digital customer experiences. Additional experience in change management product launch customer success welcome.
• Experience and knowledge of working as scrum master is desirable not essential.

Personal Attributes:

• Build strong relationships with clients and colleagues. A team player able to work collaboratively with colleagues across different disciplines geographies cultures and skill sets.
• Excellent communicator able to deliver a concise message either verbally or in writing to senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Creative thinker able to quickly analyze problems and identify appropriate solutions.
• Open-minded and pragmatic with ability to guide teams to build customized tools/ templates for the engagements.
• Flexible and enthusiastic about gaining new experiences across different clients and adapting to different challenging environments.

Contribution to Development of Practice

• Contribute by identifying opportunities to grow practice by finding new resource requirements by client.
• Contribute to practice activities such as Capability Development Knowledge Management Proposition or Solution Development
• Develop focused Thought Leadership assets including industry points of view or white papers podcasts blogs video interviews etc.

The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

• Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world.
• We don't just dream of a better way - we make it happen.
• We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what's right.
• We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that's right for you.

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 and one of Forbes World's Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

Disclaimer:
Compensation 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.

Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.