Cognizant · 1 day ago
Strategy Advisor
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expCognizant is a leading provider of consulting services, and they are seeking a Strategy & Change Advisor to guide customers from a Business, HR, and Finance perspective. The role involves leading engagements, providing expert advice, and contributing to practice development while ensuring exemplary customer service to various stakeholders.
ConsultingIndustrial AutomationInformation TechnologySoftwareSoftware Engineering
Responsibilities
Consulting Leadership – act in a lead capacity on Strategy and Change engagements including leading assessments and meetings, developing deliverables, providing guidance and direction to other Advisory team members, and delivering trusted business advisor support to clients
Organizational Strategy - partner with senior executives to understand organizational perspectives and recommend best-fit methods to execute business strategies, improve operations and performance, and optimize roles and responsibilities
Strategic Change - partner with senior executives to define the strategy, business initiatives, and organizational changes needed to gain leadership alignment, enable change leadership, promote stakeholder and employee engagement, enable further organizational change programs and plans
Technology Adoption – work with clients to understand the people issues associated with technology implementations, specifically Workday and ancillary systems including but not limited to role re-definition, skill gaps, and change readiness
Technology Implementation – partner with senior executives and program managers to understand an organization's inherent capability regarding governance, decision making, data integrity, and technology development to design strategies to set the stage for successful technology implementations
Business Development – work collaboratively with internal sales teams as well as external sales teams such as Workday to understand the needs of the client and develop proposals, respond to RFP’s, assist in writing SOW’s, and present at conferences and trade events to market the Collaborative brand
Knowledge Management – develops and maintains methodologies, tools, and templates to support strategic and implementation engagements from insights gained in prior experiences, researching best practices, and utilizing a continuous feedback loop with clients to ensure deliverables are timely and relevant
Workday Knowledge – maintains a strong relationship with implementation consultants to understand and incorporate Workday changes and updates into recommendations and deliverables during strategic engagements. Provides knowledge transfer during transition from strategic engagement to implementation engagement ensuring client requirements, decisions, and culture are shared to enable a seamless transition between projects
Qualification
Required
4+ years relevant experience in a Management Consulting team-oriented environment, or in a comparable internal Advisory role in HR and/or Finance and/or Digital Business Transformation, Data Architecture Consulting, Enterprise Architecture Consulting
Bachelor's Degree required: Master's Degree preferred, or equivalent experience
High emotional intelligence
Excellent communication skills both oral and written
Self-Management including attention to detail, organizational and time management, strong inclination to self-development
Ability to work in ambiguous situations, strong flexible and adaptable inclinations
Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel if needed
Preferred
Master's Degree preferred, or equivalent experience
European language skills preferred, but not essential
Benefits
Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
Opportunity to do great work
Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs
Company
Cognizant
Cognizant is a professional services company that helps clients alter their business, operating, and technology models for the digital era.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$0.24MKey Investors
Summit Financial Wealth Advisors
2025-03-08Post Ipo Equity
2016-11-18Post Ipo Equity· $0.24M
1998-06-19IPO
Leadership Team
Ravi Kumar S
Chief Executive Officer
Anil Cheriyan
CTO / EVP Strategy & Technology
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