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Senior Consultant-MAWMS role

Cognizant North America
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)
United States, California, San Francisco
649 Front Street (Show on map)
Nov 22, 2024

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 Retail, Consumer Goods Consulting Practice is looking for Consulting 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 the Senior Manager Level, this 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

* Exercise responsibility for one or more components of a consulting engagement
Support or drive data-driven identification and analysis of solution requirement

* Conduct workshops with clients to elicit requirements as the basis for creating business requirements documents and user stories

* Monitor solution quality compliance to standards and conduct or facilitate structured solution walkthroughs

* Conduct user acceptance testing and issue tracking / resolution

* Support solution change or enhancement requests

* Prepare and deliver solution training workshops and collateral for clients

* Perform other project tasks as needed, such as competitive research, storyline development, and report preparation (e.g., acceptance, QA).

* These associates develop a profound understanding of the Cognizant way, productive project collaboration skills and practice deliverables, collegial support and information-sharing practices, and exquisite client sensibilities.

Qualifications

1. Seasoned consultant with 5 years of experience in Retail, Travel and Consumer Goods consulting industry

2. Extensive hands-on experience in leading large scale Warehouse Management Systems implementations

3. At least 1 end to end implementation experience in Manhattan Active WM deployments.

4. Hands on Manhattan Active WMS design and configuration experience
5. Experience in defining and designing WMS processes
6. Understanding of WMS software packages like Manhattan, JDA, SAP etc.
7. Experience in online Retail processes like online customer experience, inventory management, order processing, supply chain etc. is preferred
8. Experience in leading strategy discussions, helping clients with their WMS strategy
9. Experience in Agile execution and methodologies
10. Should have excellent communications skills and be able to communicate to executive level stakeholders
11. Has ownership for key projects' timelines, deliverables, budget and metrics

Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse set of backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to construct meaningful solutions through true collaboration.

If you are comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we would love to hear from you!

Cognizant is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

Cognizant is recognized as a Military Friendly Employer and is a coalition member of the Veteran Jobs Mission. Our Cognizant Veterans Network Assists Veterans in building and growing a career at Cognizant that allows them to demonstrate the leadership, loyalty, integrity, and dedication to excellence instilled in them through participation in military service

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $90,000 - $100,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, 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

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.

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