What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Consultant - Warehousing/Cold Storage Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy & Utilities Consulting position at Cognizant?
Senior Consultant (Manager Level) – Warehousing / Cold Storage
Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy & Utilities Consulting
Location : Atlanta
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. 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!
The Role
Our Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy & Utilities Consulting group is looking for a Senior Consultant to join our journey.
We’re looking for Senior Consultants who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are : 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior Consultant (which is a Manager level position) this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.
Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!
Responsibilities
Work with clients to establish clear connections between business goals and strategies to capability development and implementation to achieving desired business value.
Define product / platform strategies and solutions focused on inventory management, logistics optimization, billing and payments
Understand scope and define business requirements along with client business stakeholders
Map business processes to identify improvement / transformation opportunities
End to end requirement management of products from product / platform vision to deliverable stories
Prepare functional use cases / detailed user stories
Validate UX / UI for every feature / function
Conduct stories / functionality demo to client product management teams (internal / external)
Review test plans prepared by QA Team
Support UAT
Assist in resolving scope, requirements, and other technical related queries
Manage change requests / enhancements / features
Defect analysis, testing and demo to client
Expertise in working with multi geography development team to deliver production ready product with incremental value
Advanced problem resolution skills and communication abilities
Create and maintain long-term working relationships with technology teams, functional counterparts, vendors, and business partners.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience, with additional certifications preferred, but not mandatory
- 7 years of consulting experience with a focus on Transportation and Logistics.
- Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) Certified in Logistics Transportation and Distribution (CLTD) is preferred, but not required.
- Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Show proficiency in transportation management systems and logistics software.
- Have experience in leading cross-functional teams.
- Display a strong understanding of industry regulations and standards.
- Be adept at using data analytics tools to drive logistics optimization.
- Have a proven track record of managing third-party logistics providers.
- Demonstrate the ability to develop and implement effective training programs.
- Show experience in conducting audits and assessments in logistics.
- Exhibit strong project management skills.
- Be committed to continuous improvement and innovation in logistics operations.
- Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes; the embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of : Work as one, Raise the bar, Dare to innovate, Do the right thing, Own it
- Ability to travel if needed for business requirements
Work Authorization
Benefits : Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements :
Disclaimer : The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
