Consulting Principal w/ Road Transportation experience, ManLog Consulting Practice

Title: Consulting Principal

(Logistics Consulting Practice)

Level: Associate Director

(Hybrid - Charlotte, NC)

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 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 is increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing!

At Cognizant Consulting, we're exploring new ideas every day. We help industry-leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate technology products that create new value-by connecting people with things, insights, and experiences.

The Role

Our Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy & Utilities Consulting group is looking for a Senior Consultant to join our journey.

We're looking for a Consulting Principal 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 Consulting Principal (which is an Associate Director level position) this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues. 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 clear connections between business goals and strategies to capability development and implementation to achieving desired business value.

* Define product / platform strategies and solutions focused on Transportation Planning and execution, including logistics planning, route optimization and fleet management.

* Understand scope and define business requirements along with client business stakeholders

* Map business processes to identify improvement/transformation opportunities

* End to end requirement management of products from product / platform vision to deliverable stories

* Prepare functional use cases / detailed user stories

* Validate UX / UI for every feature / function

* Conduct stories / functionality demo to client product management teams (internal/external)

* Review test plans prepared by QA Team

* Support UAT

* Assist in resolving scope, requirements, and other technical related queries

* Manage change requests / enhancements / features

* Defect analysis, testing and demo to client

* Expertise in working with multi geography development team to deliver production ready product with incremental value

* Advanced problem resolution skills and communication abilities

* Create and maintain long-term working relationships with technology teams, functional counterparts, vendors, and business partners.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of consulting experience with a focus on Transportation and Logistics.

• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Show proficiency in project management methodologies and tools.
• Display a deep understanding of industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Be capable of working effectively in a hybrid work model
• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Exhibit a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.
• Maintain a client-focused approach with strong relationship management skills.
• 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
• Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) or Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications are preferred, but not required.

Required Education: Bachelor's degree required; *MBA or Masters degree strongly preferred

Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in US without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until February 28^th, 2025.

The annual salary for this position is between $122,400.00 - $194,000.00 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

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

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