Consultant

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:

-• • 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.