Job Description

Sr. Consultant/Manager

Qualification :

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant industry field (Required)
+ Masters in Business Administration, Finance or Engineering (Preferred).

Responsibility :

Problem and Scope Definition :

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+ Support formulation of problem statement and definition of scope.
• - Drill down beyond the problems surface to understand root cause.
• - Construct problem statement including problem description.
• - Identify key stakeholders and construct stakeholder analysis ie how they are affected.
• - Contribute to project planning and effort estimation within scope.
• - Support the identification of risks and mitigation approaches.

Requirements Gathering :


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+ Demonstrate exceptional requirementgathering skills, leveraging clear direction from engagement management.
• - Support requirement gathering sessions.
• - Organize and sequence requirements into a user requirements document.
• - Write wellformed, validated requirements and manage changes.
• - Use appropriate tools to record, track and manage requirements.

Business Analysis :


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+ Review and analyze relevant documentation to ensure the understanding of an organizations function and capabilities.
+ Conduct relevant research to increase understanding in support of developing comprehensive solutions.
+ Logically structure recommendations and supporting data to formulate a solid, logical and understandable business case.
• Utilize appropriate business modeling techniques to represent and graphically depict various activities, processes and data These could include :
• - Business process modeling.
• - Process flow modeling.
• - Data flow modeling.
• - Stakeholder analysis.

Engagement Delivery :


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+ Demonstrate excellence in delivery of all solutions/recommendations, including supporting artifacts, on time and with high quality.
+ Deliver exceptional engagement support, including development and management of project plan(s) as needed.
+ Develop highquality deliverables that are "reviewready" the first time.
+ Proactively share ongoing point of view and perspectives.
+ Display strong listening and communication skills when interacting with client and team.

Thought Leadership :


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+ Conduct market research and/or engagementspecific inputs for service offerings eg case studies etc.
+ Research industry trends and support innovative ideas for practice thought leaders.
• Support in the development, research and design of consulting and domain mindshare such as :


articles, whitepapers, collateral development, eBooks, info graphics, leadership forums, collabortory sessions, Yammer, etc Business Development :


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+ Support Cognizant leadership in the development of RFI's, RFP's and Service offerings.

Customer Relationship Management :


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+ Build and maintain strong relationships at different levels of the client organizations.

Practice Development :


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+ Support practice building initiatives as planned by practice leadership.

Revenue Management :


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+ Ensure utilization targets are achieved by seeking opportunities for one self, internal or external as required.

Knowledge Management :


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+ Assist in creating client and/ or practice related materials (deliverables, solutions, industry best practices, standards and other knowledge artifacts) to Cognizant's knowledge management repository.