Senior Manager Organization Change Management Consulting at Cognizant in Teaneck, New Jersey

Job Description:

Cognizant Consulting Overview

Cognizant Consulting is a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 3,400 consultants worldwide, Cognizant Consulting 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 organizational change management capabilities and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. The CBC team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts like Forrester and Gartner.  Cognizant is ranked #149 on the Fortune 500 list and have been recognized three times as one of the “World’s most admired companies”.  Vault has ranked our consulting organization among the top 10 consulting firms.   

CBC-Strategic Services: Organization Change Management (OCM) Practice Overview

Our OCM practice helps clients drive business and IT, strategies and implementations. We deploy fundamental OCM solutions (i.e., Change Strategies, Impact Assessments, Communication Strategies & Plans, Organizational Designs, Training Strategies, etc.) and are expanding solutions to drive Digital transformations (i.e., Social, Mobile, Analytics and Collaboration). We support all types of Business and IT Strategy transformations such as, Organizational Re-alignments, Digital Transformations, Business and IT Outsourcing, IT Package Implementations and Upgrades (i.e., SAP, Oracle, SalesForce.com, ServiceNow, and most industry leading practice packages), Organizational Design & Governance, Workforce Strategy & Planning, Mergers and Acquisitions, Target Operating Model Transformations, etc.

We currently service clients across Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Health Care, Life Sciences, Retail, Consumer Products, Manufacturing & Logistics, Travel & Hospitality, and Technology. We service clients in the USA, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pac.

The CBC-SS OCM practice is a fast growing organization that offers talented professionals empowerment, challenge and growth. Ours is an open and dynamic environment where you will have the opportunity to practice your craft, sharpen your skills and take leadership roles on a variety of consulting engagements. Our flat organizational structure and entrepreneurial culture allows you to contribute regularly to business and practice development.

Job Description

We are looking for highly motivated, experienced, and ambitious professionals with a proven track record of engagement execution and leadership, who will bring to bear their skills, capabilities, and expertise to deliver significant change transformation to our clients and thought leadership to our practice. We want professionals that can deliver proven methods while constantly challenging how OCM can be improved as our clients’ core business and IT models change.

Change Management Consulting and Delivery:

We are interested in professionals with traditional change management skills and capabilities which include but are not limited to Change Management Strategy & Planning, Benefits Realization, Change Impact, Change Readiness, Stakeholder Engagement, Communications (Strategy, Planning and Implementation), Training (Strategy, Planning and Delivery Management), and Organizational Design.

Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of work experience (dependent on level role being pursued) at a Tier-1 consulting firm or within a Forbes Global 2000 company


• Industry experience across any of the following: Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Health Care, Life Sciences, Retail, Consumer Products, Manufacturing & Logistics, Travel & Hospitality and Technology


• Strong working knowledge in the planning and implementation of some of the following change or transformation management activities: stakeholder analysis & engagement; communications strategy, planning and execution; program branding and promotion; key message development, change agent network, impact assessment, organization design & alignment, change readiness, end user training, and digital transformations


• Experience with Business and IT Transformations


• Management Consulting experience preferred; large in-house change or transformation management experience will be considered


• Experience with business development activities for OCM and/or Business Transformation consulting services


• Preferred MBA or Master’s Degree in OCM-related discipline as described above


• Ability to lead or work on multiple, large, time-sensitive projects or work streams


• Willingness to travel ~80% of the time

Senior Managing Consultants are expected to understand, plan and manage delivery of standard and complex OCM strategy and delivery engagements. They are expected to manage all levels of engagements and collaborate work efforts with other solution work streams. They are responsible for managing deliverables, resources and financials associated with their assigned engagements. They are expected to work closely with client sponsors and account team management. They are expected to cultivate strong relationships with the client and Cognizant delivery managers that can result in add-on business during engagements. Senior Managing Consultants are expected to help drive business through proposal participation and orals as needed.

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of IT services and Consulting Services to Global Fortune 500 companies. Focused on delivering strategic information technology solutions that address the complex business needs of its clients, Cognizant uses its own on-site/offshore outsourcing model to provide applications management, development, integration, and reengineering; infrastructure management; business process outsourcing; and numerous related services, such as enterprise consulting, technology architecture, program management, and change management.

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position whom are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action M/F/D/V