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Consultant/Senior Consultant
for Cognizant Business Consulting (m/f)
Summary of Department Focus: Cognizant Business Consulting (CBC) provides strategic advice to clients on issues at the cusp of business and technology. Whereas Cognizant provides application, infrastructure and business process services, CBC offers its clients an enhanced value proposition by helping them tackle business problems that can often be addressed by technology solutions or insights. CBC Strategic Services has grouped its service offerings along 4 major streams of client work:
- Digital- & Business Transformation - People Transformation - Supply Chain Transformation - IT Transformation
Typical client problems addressed by CBC Strategic Services include:
Business Requirements Management & Analysis Digital Transformation Organizational Change Management Business Driven IT Strategy Application Portfolio Optimization IT Organization & Performance Model IT Sourcing IT Cost Optimization
CBC is a pioneer in leveraging the global service delivery model for Consulting. Seasoned consultants (Principals, Engagement Managers and Senior Consultants) work closely at on-site locations with clients to structure their problem, gather data and design solutions. The onsite team is supported by offshore consultants who perform detailed analysis and secondary research. The duration of a typical client engagement varies from 6 weeks to 6 months. CBC Strategic Services is aligned as a “horizontal” within the Cognizant organization; i.e. it works across all industry “verticals”. Specialists from the respective industry vertical collaborate with CBC engagement teams to provide deeper insights into the industry.
2. Job Content
Summary of Job Purpose Use your consulting skills to work with clients in project teams through all stages of transformation projects. Consult with clients to identify, clarify, and solve complex issues critical to clients’ success by preparing for and conducting interviews, gathering required data and executing analyses, identifying issues and recommending approaches to address them, presenting facts in meetings and serving as an effective support resource to team in client meetings
Key Accountabilities:
1. Consulting Engagement Execution
o Participates in solving of challenging client problems in a team or individual setup
o Identifies critical aspects of the engagement, contributes to data gathering and
applies relevant tools, methodologies and techniques to support problem solving
o Adapts as required to dynamically changed client environment
o Formulates, articulates and prioritizes key conclusions
o Develops comprehensive set of sound recommendations
o Presents engagement outcome to client
2. Thought Leadership
o Conducts research on the market and industry trends
o Contributes to development of new CBC service offerings
o Co-authors articles/whitepapers that demonstrate thought leadership
o Assists in building Knowledge artifacts
3. Practice Development
o Acts as mentor/ buddy for new joiners and help familiarize with Cognizant facilities,
CBC environment, work culture etc.
o Creates/Reviews training material/modules
o Actively shares knowledge and provides guidance within the team and beyond
o Assists in recruitment activities
o Contributes to internal process improvements
4. Engagement Selling
o Contributes to pre-sales activities
o Works as a team member in developing proposals and presentations
o Contributes to RFPs/RFIs and recommends value proposition
o Prepares and reviews client presentations
o Proactively identifies opportunities for existing and potential clients
5. Job Requirements
Key Competencies: Consulting skills: problem-solving and strategic planning, recommendation development, commercial awareness and understanding of business environments, stakeholder analysis, research know-how (desk research, interviews and surveys), consulting tools and techniques (ABC Analysis, Fishbone Diagram, Porter’s 5 Forces, SWOT and etc.), modelling techniques (BPMN, UML, etc.), etc.
Project Management skills: understanding of basic project management concepts (incl. project planning, controlling), basic experience of working in virtual teams and onsite/offshore models, risk management
Business development skills: ability to identify new opportunities, contribute to proposals
IT skills: basic technology understanding, IT exposure, understanding of key technology trends
Communication skills: effective communication, ability to structure, write and deliver presentations and other reports in business English and German
Personal skills: creativity and innovation, analytical mind-set, flexibility, ability to cope with pressure and challenges, proactive thinker, team player, excellent interpersonal skills, professionalism and high ethics
Knowledge: Life Science Industry: prior participation in Life Science engagements, such as: Clinical Development, Supply Chain/Manufacturing, Commercial Operations
Experience: Service Offerings (any of the following): Business Requirements Management & Analysis, Digital Transformation, Organizational Change Management, Business Driven IT Strategy, Application Portfolio Optimization, IT Organization & Performance Model, IT Sourcing, IT Cost Optimization
Qualifications: Education: ideal - combined Business & IT education, MBA, PhD; Minimum: BSc in Management and/or IT
Certifications (desired but not mandatory): Scrum, PRINCE2, PMI, Six Sigma, IIBA, etc.
Please apply via: [email protected]
Andreas Hörmann|Recruiting Manager Germany| Cognizant Technology Solutions GmbH | Torhaus Westhafen | Speicherstrasse 57-59 | 60327 Frankfurt | Germany | Sitz der Gesellschaft: Frankfurt am Main | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main - HRB 48035 | USt-Identifikationsnummer DE 812850314 | Geschäftsführer: Santosh Thomas | www.cognizant.com
