Assistant Vice President - Retail Consumer Goods Consulting

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 Retail Consumer Goods Consulting Practice is looking for an Assistant Vice President, Consulting to join us on our journey to become the preeminent technology services partner to the Global 2000.

We engineer modern businesses to improve everyday life. Cognizant Consulting is the Cognizant business analytical and advisory group that drives Cognizant’s digital innovation and transformation strategy. Our Consultants apply industry‑specific domain knowledge and understanding of Cognizant’s horizontal solutions to address client needs and requirements, to advise on and shape client strategies, to deliver optimum solutions that delight clients, and achieve client business goals.

We work on some of the most exciting projects in the marketplace across our 7 verticals and 3 horizontals. We are looking for pure‑play management consulting leaders with expertise in Retail/Consumer Goods.

To be successful, we’re looking for Consultants who exemplify Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting
:
1) Project Execution,
2) Expertise,
3) Business Development,
4) Practice Development, &
5) People Development. At the Director Level, this means driving cost‑effective end‑to‑end execution of consulting engagements, cultivating practice innovations, achieving financial targets (utilization, expenditures, revenue, margin), promoting Cognizant Consulting’s vision & mission, and building high‑performing teams across the organization. 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!

• Serve as a Consulting Leader, bringing your areas of domain expertise to Cognizant’s clients, as we engineer modern businesses to improve everyday life
• Own and develop a book of business and actively engage in business development efforts, often owning quota for accounts, and ensuring profitable growth for the practice and for Cognizant
• Exercise quality assurance for engagements within your remit
• Engage in key account expansion, sales leadership, and internal executive stakeholder partnering based upon an expert understanding of such things as emerging market trends, client business direction, client requirements, evolving regulatory contexts and the feasibility of transformation goals
• Maintain expertise in your industry or capability group:
  Consumer Goods [Organizational Change Management, Program Direction and Enablement, & Mergers & Acquisitions].
• Establish and nurture relationships with cross‑functional client executives and strive to serve as their trusted advisor
• Leverage industry expertise and market sensibilities to propose forward‑leaning refinement or extension of Cognizant’s Advisory Capabilities (offerings)
• Support and develop a long‑term vision for the practice
• Work with…