Senior Consultant - Organizational Change Management Consulting

Senior Consultant

Organizational Change Management

New Jersey, 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 Transformation Management Consulting practice is looking for a Senior Consultant Organizational Change Management Consulting, to join our journey. We're looking for someone who is passionate about transformation, wants to make an impact, and loves working together to deliver flawless results for an end-client to join us on our mission. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for handling the full transformation life cycle, from operational readiness to change and adoption to systems engineering and truly the entirety of organizational development for our clients.

At Cognizant, we help clients with their most strategic initiatives. This group in particular works cross-functionally with the practices within Consulting to handle the orchestrion, business readiness, and design to create a model that will build organizational maturity for a client. We serve some of the most prestigious companies in the world, across industries, including Banking, Media, Energy, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, Travel, and more.

We're looking for people who understand what true transformation means. This is a great opportunity for someone with a foundation in process, process mapping, building workflows, etc to apply it in an Advisory Consulting environment. We offer a great team atmosphere, opportunities to learn, and the ability to work on complex and engaging work while building your skills.

To be successful, you'll need to be a self-starter who is energized by process and loves to identify pain points and transform a process and the way business is done. Examples of a background that will help you succeed are experience with Process Optimization, PMO, Project Management, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Change Management or similar. In this role, you will apply your experience on a client project and/or internal initiatives, and you will be part of a team that will guide clients through complex scenarios and lead them into the digital era.

We're looking for Senior 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. At this level, that means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, consultatively working with a client to achieve business goals, driving contributions to offerings and innovations, and serving as a people leader, guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client and the world. 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

• Create Change Strategy and Plan

• Create and Manage Communications

• Manage Stakeholder Engagement

• Conduct a Training Needs Analysis

• Build a Change Impact Assessment

• 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.

• Support and contribute to the establishment of thought leadership in the industry, to promote Cognizant's brand and to drive additional opportunities for Cognizant.

• Consult directly with our clients and provide advisory services designed to help them solve their most complex business and technology challenges Manager 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

Qualifications

• A proven track record in a client-facing role with at least 2 of which (though ideally more) are leading digital technology team.

• 10-15 years' experience in managing ERP Change Management initiatives

• Experience using Oracle Guided Learning

• Strong communications skills

• Experience managing change practitioners

• The track record and experience to achieve the above, which includes ideally 6-8+ 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

• Travel Required: As needed by client.

• 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.)

Post End Date:

Applications will be accepted until April 15th, 2024.

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.