Product Owner - Cognizant Consulting, SOX Compliance Experience Manufacturing and Logistics Cognizant Consulting Location - Plano, TX 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 several 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 Manufacturing & Logistics consulting practice is one of the most prominent and significant in the industry.
And we are growing We are looking for a Senior Consultant to join us in our Consulting practice.
This role will focus on industrial manufacturing strategies at the intersection of business and technology, helping lead the way as we continue to scale our business.
We're looking for Senior Consultants who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development.
As a Senior Consultant, this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders to clarify requirements and support delivery of effective solutions; applying technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; developing and strengthening domain knowledge and maintaining an accurate understanding of Cognizant's industry propositions and consulting capabilities; supporting business development activities of senior leaders; contributing to the development of practice initiatives or new service offerings (e.g., Strategic Control Points, development of consulting assets); and being an inspiring colleague, promoting team motivation, partnership, and ownership for projects.
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 Consult directly with our clients and provide advisory services designed to help them solve their most complex business and technology challenges Manage and direct a small-to-medium team of developer 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 Contribute to the thought leadership of your practice and contribute to one or more practice initiatives or service offerings (e.g., Strategic Consulting Points (SCPs), the building of consulting assets or solutions) Maintain expertise in your industry or capability group: Future state process definition for AR/AP for freight brokerage, drayage, warehousing and managed services businesses.
Encourage and facilitate the business development activities of project teams through activities such as opportunity validation, strategy approval, RFI support, storyline, proposals, & client presentations Engage with client contacts to generate leads and identify new opportunities for consulting services.
Recognize, capture, store, and promote the sharing of engagement collateral and IP (e.g., blogs, white papers, case-studies, articles) Supports the implementation of one or more practice initiatives or service offerings (e.g., Strategic Control Points (SCP), consulting assets, solutions) Serve as a people leader within Consulting, supporting professional development of the team Qualifications Must Have Skills Experience working in SOX Compliance and SOX management functions Strong Agile Product Owner experience Hands on expertise in Agile tools (JIRA and Confluence) Leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach and mentor other team members Able to develop and deliver all or subsets of the artifacts (i.e., user stories, test scenarios) for group and other teams Expert in product management techniques such as user story mapping, carving out Minimum Viable Products, identify improvements for improving cycle time and throughput Ability to work with large cross functional teams in an onsite offshore mode of delivery Desired Skills (Nice to have) Automotive Industry Experience Presales experience/ interest Technical knowledge (cloud implementations/ data analytics) 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.
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