Senior Consultant at Cognizant in Dallas, Texas

Job Description:

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!

Strategic Services: Organizational Change Management (“OCM”)

The OCM practice offers leadership capabilities to align organizational and people strategies with our client’s business and IT strategies. Our areas of focus include Enterprise Technology Adoption (SAP, Oracle, Cloud, Mobility and Analytics), Business and IT Strategy Transformation, Organizational Transformation, Business Process and IT Outsourcing, and Post-merger Integration. We offer consulting services covering Stakeholder Engagement, Organizational Alignment & Readiness, Organization Design & Governance, Organizational Effectiveness, Workforce Strategy & Planning, Change Management, Communications Strategy & Planning, and Training Strategy & Planning.

We currently work with clients across Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Health Care, Life Sciences, Retail, Consumer Products, Manufacturing & Logistics, Travel & Hospitality, and Technology.

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

The Role

We are looking for highly motivated, experienced, and ambitious change communications professionals with a proven track record of engagement leadership and execution, and who will bring industry expertise, strategy thinking, and process improvements to deliver significant impact to our clients and practice.

 

Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds create perspective and new ways of thinking. It urges lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We are looking for someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft relevant solutions through true collaboration.

If you’re comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Identify, design, and implement M&A services for complex client engagements with a focus on HR function and all HR programs and policies (compensation, benefits, employee programs), and managing enterprise change


• Minimum of 2 years’ experience with Human Capital mergers and acquisitions, restructuring or enterprise cost reduction


• Ensure that change management initiatives and activities are in alignment with overall program plans, objectives, and timelines


• Develop reusable consulting assets to help improve quality of and accelerate time-to-delivery for client engagements


• Ability to creatively approach challenges and projects and to work effectively, both independently and in teams, to drive toward common goals, consistent with corporate vision and strategies


• Contribute to thought leadership and practice development effort in order to help evolve and mature practice service areas


• Contribute to business development effort through activities such as pre-sales client presentations, research, proposal development, and SOWs